Maryland Transcript Status

[P-representation]

To everyone who's applied to Maryland, does you application status show your application in complete? I sent my transcripts in early Jan which reached before the deadline on Jan 11th. It's been nearly 3 weeks now and my status still shows that my transcripts are awaited. My GRE and TOEFL scores have arrived though.

Is anyone else facing the same problem? I tried contacting them but haven't had a reply so far . Oh, and I also forgot to attach the covering sheet with my documents .

[relativeflux]

They emailed me in early January saying the school was way behind in uploading several documents. The email asked if I could directly send whatever piece was missing in a reply email. Even after that, the application status was not updated for 1-2 weeks. I would try to directly contact them by phone. My experience was with the Astronomy Department.

[Tom Joad]

To everyone who's applied to Maryland, does you application status show your application in complete? I sent my transcripts in early Jan which reached before the deadline on Jan 11th. It's been nearly 3 weeks now and my status still shows that my transcripts are awaited. My GRE and TOEFL scores have arrived though.

Is anyone else facing the same problem? I tried contacting them but haven't had a reply so far . Oh, and I also forgot to attach the covering sheet with my documents .

Mine says complete when I go to check application status on the ASF form, but I sent my transcripts in mid December. Did you mail or fax your documents? If not the cover sheet was not needed.

[P-representation]

I sent them through DHL twice, once for the transcripts and the next time for the certification of finances form (attached with another copy of my transcript). I wrote my program code and name on them, so I hope it wouldn't be a major problem.

Also, I mailed the secretary of the physics department to check my status. Should I mail the graduate school directly instead?

[fizzax]

I sent my transcript in mid-December and it finally said that they had it on my check application status two days ago.

[ModusPwnens]

I'm in the same boat. I sent my transcripts in early January (with the cover sheet), but the ASF site still says that they're missing. It also says not to contact them until 3 weeks after you submit, because they're swamped right now. But I got an email from a professor last week saying that he had seen my application, so I'm not worried. I also have to think that with this many people complaining about it, they'll cut you some slack when considering the applications - so if your transcripts got lost or were late or something, they probably won't hold it against you if they're having trouble managing all of the documents this year.

[deathinacan]

Same thing happened to me. Sometime about a week ago I panicked and resent my transcript overnight when I saw that they hadn't received it. It still says that they don't have the transcript, so I'll just wait now.

[quantum_fan]

Same here - they've listed one of my transcripts as missing despite sending it in late December.

[deathinacan]

I just checked my status today, and it said "complete", so it looks like they finally got my transcript sorted out.

[walczyk]

Has anyone heard anything from UMaryland? Or any schools with deadlines in january? I only applied to these late schools, and I've only got my first response yesterday. At least it was positive.

[Skullgrid]

Has anyone heard anything from UMaryland? Or any schools with deadlines in january?

I haven't heard from UMD, but I did hear from UCSD, which also had a Jan. 15th deadline. According to the UMD application site, all decisions are given via snail mail, so it might be a while before you get it.

[bfollinprm]

If memory serves, Maryland has been rather slow each year in sending out acceptances.