UMD Admissions takes the Prize Patrol approach

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Happy for the kids, but cheesy PR by the admissions staff. This is a huge school and you pick 5-6 to visit in person? Everyone else just gets to deal with the giant bureaucracy at CP.

And 4 to 6 years for a degree from a mediocre-minus school.

Medicore-minus? Interesting.

http://www.umdrightnow.umd.edu/university-maryland-rankings

I stand corrected. Solid. I'm stuck in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Happy for the kids, but cheesy PR by the admissions staff. This is a huge school and you pick 5-6 to visit in person? Everyone else just gets to deal with the giant bureaucracy at CP.

+1. I have no problem with UMD, but I think it's classier when schools deal with admitted students the same way.

Huh? It's just PR for admission day in the home state of a Big Ten university. "Classy" is often fake and contrived.

Yep, it's a mere PR stunt, but classier schools don't pull stunts like that.

no classier schools can't keep track of campus massacres, dining hall beheadings, lacrosse rape/murders or shower slapping sounds.

[Anonymous]

It seemed cute but desperate to me. If I got into Harvard, I'd want a parade. UMD? Not so much

[Anonymous]

Apparently they called the parents first to make sure the kids would be home and that it was OK to stage a home invasion.

The kids are the ones who applied, so they should find out first. It would have been interesting if one of the kids had burst into tears and asked the parents "Does this mean I have to go in-state?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seemed cute but desperate to me. If I got into Harvard, I'd want a parade. UMD? Not so much

Harvard is too expensive to really feel like you're winning lol,

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN4ynr6QbtA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The letter thing is not new. Son - current UMD junior - got one when he applied.

A hand written letter?

I'm sure only the most expensive private school is good enough for your snowflake. The money you spend will never equal the money you make. Employers won't care if it's UMD or Harvard. In the end, only one will be paying off a ridiculous amount in student loans.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, previous comment was supposed to respond to the mention that UMD was a mediocre-minus school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN4ynr6QbtA

I love the part where the student talks about getting to the National Mall "like in 10 minutes." It's more like 30-35 minutes to the Smithsonian station and that doesn't even include getting from the campus to the station and waiting for a train.

But I guess that's the bombastic hype you'd expect from UMD.