Univ. of Delaware

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Year 2025. The Chipotle right there where all the restaurants are was so crowded that they actually closed the place 3-4 hrs before they usually close. People who were already in line could order. Never seen a chipotle close anywhere.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Year 2025. The Chipotle right there where all the restaurants are was so crowded that they actually closed the place 3-4 hrs before they usually close. People who were already in line could order. Never seen a chipotle close anywhere.

The UDel Chipotle is always busy but at different times

[Anonymous]

Just looking for some clarification here. Someone preferred Delaware to Dickinson because the Chipotle at Delaware was super busy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just looking for some clarification here. Someone preferred Delaware to Dickinson because the Chipotle at Delaware was super busy?

Those were probably different posters. "Anonymous"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UD grad.

There are a lot of kids from Media, Philly area, NJ, and Long Island. A lot attended top tier public schools in the Philly area.

We also had some students from "elite" families in Wilmington.

One of my roommates was from Towson.

I don't think I ever met anyone from Virginia.

There are some Marylanders there but a lot more students from Philly, NJ, and Long Island.

Very few students attend from lower Delaware or even the Dover area.

I transferred from Dickinson and liked UD a lot better than Dickinson.

I enjoyed my time there and I was also a business major.

I'm 14:12 from page 1.

I'm not sure when you graduated, but on at least 1 of our tours, 1 guide was from Fairfax. And we at least 2-3 other students who led the lab tour were from Baltimore. This was in 2022/23.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up nearby and quite a few of my friends are grads (I didn’t want to go to school that close to home). Many of them got MBAs and do quite well. I don’t know that not wearing DE gear means there is no spirit - my friends still show up for alumni events, including doing alumni band events.

The entire state of DE is smaller than Fairfax County, so yes, there are kids from other states. MD is just minutes from campus, and Jersey and PA line can be reached in 20-30 minutes.

I always enjoyed visiting with my friends on and around campus.

No, not even close. I assume you meant the population is smaller. That is true.

[Anonymous]

Good merit aid for OOS applicants. Also very good for chem engineering (esp with DuPont’s involvement in the school). Applied for those reasons.

[Anonymous]

Three of my cousins, all from northern MD (Harford Co), attended and loved it. It seems to draw a lot of MD kids for whom UMD is a reach and Towson is too much of a commuter vibe.

[Anonymous]

We took our kids to visit. My wife hated it. So did my kids. I liked it. No idea why they hated it. It did look tired but can't imagine that was the reason.

For my kids, neither of which applied, they could have gotten in but we were worried about the cost. Just not worth it OOS without aid. And we wouldn't have gotten aid. Kids were toward the bottom of the range of accepted kids. We are from PA.

At our school, Delaware is sort of like Miami of Ohio. Kids who go there are a step below the Penn State kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up nearby and quite a few of my friends are grads (I didn’t want to go to school that close to home). Many of them got MBAs and do quite well. I don’t know that not wearing DE gear means there is no spirit - my friends still show up for alumni events, including doing alumni band events.

The entire state of DE is smaller than Fairfax County, so yes, there are kids from other states. MD is just minutes from campus, and Jersey and PA line can be reached in 20-30 minutes.

I always enjoyed visiting with my friends on and around campus.

No, not even close. I assume you meant the population is smaller. That is true.

I of course meant population. Didn’t realize I had to clarify that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up nearby and quite a few of my friends are grads (I didn’t want to go to school that close to home). Many of them got MBAs and do quite well. I don’t know that not wearing DE gear means there is no spirit - my friends still show up for alumni events, including doing alumni band events.

The entire state of DE is smaller than Fairfax County, so yes, there are kids from other states. MD is just minutes from campus, and Jersey and PA line can be reached in 20-30 minutes.

I always enjoyed visiting with my friends on and around campus.

No, not even close. I assume you meant the population is smaller. That is true.

I of course meant population. Didn’t realize I had to clarify that.

DP. Given that your next sentence talked about how quickly you can reach MD, NJ, and PA state lines, I too thought you meant geographical size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up nearby and quite a few of my friends are grads (I didn’t want to go to school that close to home). Many of them got MBAs and do quite well. I don’t know that not wearing DE gear means there is no spirit - my friends still show up for alumni events, including doing alumni band events.

The entire state of DE is smaller than Fairfax County, so yes, there are kids from other states. MD is just minutes from campus, and Jersey and PA line can be reached in 20-30 minutes.

I always enjoyed visiting with my friends on and around campus.

No, not even close. I assume you meant the population is smaller. That is true.

I of course meant population. Didn’t realize I had to clarify that.

DP. Given that your next sentence talked about how quickly you can reach MD, NJ, and PA state lines, I too thought you meant geographical size.

My apologies. rereading it, I do see how it could be read that way. I don’t always catch it while just typing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We took our kids to visit. My wife hated it. So did my kids. I liked it. No idea why they hated it. It did look tired but can't imagine that was the reason.

For my kids, neither of which applied, they could have gotten in but we were worried about the cost. Just not worth it OOS without aid. And we wouldn't have gotten aid. Kids were toward the bottom of the range of accepted kids. We are from PA.

At our school, Delaware is sort of like Miami of Ohio. Kids who go there are a step below the Penn State kids.

My kids aren’t eligible for financial aid, but my DD got so much merit money it was cheaper for us than in state MD schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good merit aid for OOS applicants. Also very good for chem engineering (esp with DuPont’s involvement in the school). Applied for those reasons.

+1
We toured the University of DE three years ago, it is a pretty campus. A smaller UMD college park feel to me; we enjoyed the restaurant options.
However, DS was put on wait list, then was accepted with OOS merit of $19K in late June or July.
He didn't go there but would have worked out so well for us (close to VA and the DE beaches)!

[Anonymous]

My child is really thriving there, and is in the honors program. Loves the campus and town, has relationships with professors (STEM major) and several cool extracurriculars. It does trend kind of Greek but my child doesn’t participate and still has lots of friends.