DC area sucks

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's the DC area sucks. It has to do with wanting new and different experiences.

[Anonymous]

+1. Natural for kids that age to not realize how good they have it and think the grass is greener somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all in the way the parents train their kids to think. I have told my kids since they were babies how great UMD is. They are absolutely thrilled to go there. You gotta start early.

One would train a pet, not a child. I taught my children to achieve to their highest potential, which was considerably higher than UMD.

You are the type of DC person this poster was criticizing. And he is not alone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all in the way the parents train their kids to think. I have told my kids since they were babies how great UMD is. They are absolutely thrilled to go there. You gotta start early.

One would train a pet, not a child. I taught my children to achieve to their highest potential, which was considerably higher than UMD.

Seriously. UMd? Aim higher. UMd is at the absolute bottom and every top MD student’s list. A safety to the safety.

[Anonymous]

I hadn't been in the DC beltway area since 1970-ish until I accompanied my grandson here to Bethesda for a soccer tournament and found that "the streets are actually paved with gold." So this is where all my tax money was spent!

[Anonymous]

Good news for OP: you can move you realize

[Anonymous]

Parchment says that when accepted to both UMD and UVA 90 percent of the students choose UVA.

[Anonymous]

"Looks like the University of Illinois"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not a DC specific thing. It is all about kids wanting to break out into the world no matter where they are from.

These threads speak highly of a certain excellent school in my home town that was the kiss of death to kids in my high school. My mom, knowing we dreamed of going "away" to college, used to threaten us that we would be sent there as commuter students on the bus if we didn't shape up.

+1
The same could be said of George Mason. Kids from all over the country and internationally have it at the top of their lists. It’s only some local students (and their parents) who insist they’d “never go there” - simply because it’s local. Never mind that it’s a very good school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not a DC specific thing. It is all about kids wanting to break out into the world no matter where they are from.

These threads speak highly of a certain excellent school in my home town that was the kiss of death to kids in my high school. My mom, knowing we dreamed of going "away" to college, used to threaten us that we would be sent there as commuter students on the bus if we didn't shape up.

+1
The same could be said of George Mason. Kids from all over the country and internationally have it at the top of their lists. It’s only some local students (and their parents) who insist they’d “never go there” - simply because it’s local. Never mind that it’s a very good school.

Easy there, Mason booster. 81% of Mason students are from the state of Virginia. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+1. Natural for kids that age to not realize how good they have it and think the grass is greener somewhere else.

It is not even about the grass being greener, it s just the opportunity to experience a different place away from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. Natural for kids that age to not realize how good they have it and think the grass is greener somewhere else.

It is not even about the grass being greener, it s just the opportunity to experience a different place away from home.

Exactly! Very few are actually the loser PP who calls UMD “safety of safeties”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all in the way the parents train their kids to think. I have told my kids since they were babies how great UMD is. They are absolutely thrilled to go there. You gotta start early.

One would train a pet, not a child. I taught my children to achieve to their highest potential, which was considerably higher than UMD.

Seriously. UMd? Aim higher. UMd is at the absolute bottom and every top MD student’s list. A safety to the safety.

Where did you learn to write?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all in the way the parents train their kids to think. I have told my kids since they were babies how great UMD is. They are absolutely thrilled to go there. You gotta start early.

One would train a pet, not a child. I taught my children to achieve to their highest potential, which was considerably higher than UMD.

Seriously. UMd? Aim higher. UMd is at the absolute bottom and every top MD student’s list. A safety to the safety.

Boy are you ignorant. The faculty at UMD are WAY closer to the caliber of top 5 university faculty than any top 20 SLAC faculty.

[Anonymous]

The kids weren’t wrong!