Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UMD has passed UVa in the world university rankings. UMD 40 national championship teams to Uva 20. Ncaa championships in basketball (men and women) /football, the 3 most difficult UVa zero. UMD has 200 ACC championships dwarfing Uva. UMD has more Pulitzer prize alumni and faculty than Uva. UMD has more Nobel prize alumni and faculty than Uva. UMD dwarfs Uva in annual research funding. UMd alumni created/invented the following.... google, the muppets,seinfeld, the miniature insulin pump, coronary stents, The Wire, The Boondocks, broke Watergate, the hybrid engine, The universal price code, the octane system, the automatic parachute, retractable landing gear, pulse doppler radar, linear programming, launched sirius satellite, founded nautica and Outback Steakhouse, Designed the first large screen stadium television, created frequent flyer programs, syndicated Baywatch, wrote Apollo 13....
Uva alumni have not matched any of these creative achievements many of which our culture depends on. They do perform a mean real estate settlement however.
Why all the angst? Send your kids to UMD. We'll send ours to UVA (if UVA would accept them). For big (out of) state schools, our FC high schoolers prefer Penn State to UMD, 15:0.