No notice of acceptance..but housing contract?

[GeographyOSU]

I've been waiting for about a month to hear back from UMD about my master's program application...still no word, even though the committee was supposed to have met already..but I did get an e-mail from the University regarding a contract for on-campus housing. Is this a unintentional way of telling me I got accepted? I don't want to get too optimistic, but I don't know if they submit applications to people who haven't been accepted yet?

[iExcelAtMicrosoftPuns]

Hard to say.

Best case scenario: It is. Yay - but you don't know for sure.
Worst case scenario: It isn't boo - but you don't know for sure.

:-D

I'd just file it away for 48 hours. Write a brief email to the DGS on sunday evening. Leave it at that.

[RomulusAugustulus]

A lot of schools send housing info to all students who have applied so they can apply early in case they get in. It probably does not mean you are accepted. Sorry

But good luck!

[Nikos Evangelos]

You should go ahead and use this opportunity to pose a legitimate question. They sent you the housing info, so why did they? Ask. My experience with writing to profs and programs and admissions dept. after applications have been 80+ percent good or neutral. Definitely helped get me into two places, and in other cases merely confirmed the inevitable. I do have the advantage of having applied to a lot of programs, which allows for experimentation. (No interventions in some cases, contacting gambits in others that paid off well for a couple.)