Invited Students

Congratulations! You have been invited to join Carillon Communities, one of the university’s newest living-learning programs. Living-learning programs help a big campus feel small. At Maryland we have received national recognition for our outstanding communities.

More than half of all first-year students at Maryland participate in a learning community. We are excited for you to join Carillon - the living learning community that translates your curiosity into action!

Accepting Your Invitation

You received your invitation to Carillon as part of your UMD acceptance letter. Before accepting the Carillon invite review our website, read about the program, learn about our different communities, and decide if Carillon Communities is for you.

If you want to start your first year at Maryland working with faculty and your peers to wrestle with Big Questions important to our world, then Carillon is for you.

Accept your invitation by following these steps.

1. Review the nine Communities on the website.
2. Choose at least four communities that interest you (you can choose more). We encourage you to select communities that allow you to explore interests beyond your intended major. The community courses are designed to satisfy general education requirements.
• Why are we encouraging you to choose four communities? Each community is limited in size. By selecting four we will have the greatest opportunity to offer placement in a community of your interest. If you select only one community and are not selected for that community placement you will not be placed in another community, and will not be a member of the Carillon Communities. Please note that lack of placement in Carillon will have no adverse effect on your enrollment at Maryland.
3. Log into your application at mycoalition.org by February 17, 2020, and proceed to your University of Maryland Checklist. Click the question mark next to "Carillon Communities," and then click the link to access the Interest Inventory form. You must complete the Interest Inventory form to accept your Carillon invitation. You are not automatically enrolled in the program.
   
4. Review the full directions for submitting your Interest Inventory Form.

Please note that completing the Interest Inventory Form does not commit you to the University of Maryland, it only reserves a spot in Carillon Communities. Accepting admission to the University of Maryland is a distinct process. To accept admission to UMD refer to the information on the Coalition website.

Housing

Students participating in Language, Once and Future Planet, Visualizing Knowledge and Weather and Climate will reside in Easton Hall. Students participating in Arts and Activism, iGive, Freedom Fighting, Free Speech, and Riots reside in Elkton Hall. Completing this application does not guarantee you housing at UMD. Every new first-year student who desires to live in campus residence halls MUST complete the Housing/Dining Services Agreement by May 1 to be eligible to live on campus. The housing agreement can be found at Resident Life.

Open House

Due to social distancing, the University of Maryland has cancelled all remaining Open Houses. Take some time to view a recorded presentation on the Carillon program, along with presentations from colleges and various campus offices. Follow us on Twitter as we will also post videos from our faculty and current students sharing their experiences in the program.