UMD yard sign arrived today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be a new thing. I have 2 kids at UMD right now and neither got one.

Well, maybe they got fewer applicants this year? After all kids probably can see on their social media all the wild raves and super spreader events on UMD. Party like it's 1999 there!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Now a Terp" yard sign arrived today from UMD. Our senior has not said yes, and with no merit aid, even with UMD Scholars, will likely go to another OOS flagship where they were accepted to honors college and received merit aid (and will therefore be less than in state UMD).

Bizarre.

We got one, too. We didn't think it was bizarre, just a waste of $. They should send to kids who say they are going to go. A t shirt or hat you could still wear anyway, but no one is going to put a "now a terp" sign in their yard if they aren't going.

This! A t-shirt would have been money better spent. This will sit in my garage until god knows when.

Even if your child doesn’t go the school, they would probably still wear the free t shirt if it’s nice and then the kid is a walking billboard. Even if my doesn’t want the free t shirt or cap, if the same size my husband would wear it, or I might wear it to work out in or run errands. Walking billboards.

Zero are going to put the sign out if kid isn’t going

Even if the kid is going they might beg the parents not to put the sign out because they are seen as cringeworthy.

Wherever my DC ultimately goes I have been “forbidden” to put out such a sign or said child will die of embarrassment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Now a Terp" yard sign arrived today from UMD. Our senior has not said yes, and with no merit aid, even with UMD Scholars, will likely go to another OOS flagship where they were accepted to honors college and received merit aid (and will therefore be less than in state UMD).

Bizarre.

We got one, too. We didn't think it was bizarre, just a waste of $. They should send to kids who say they are going to go. A t shirt or hat you could still wear anyway, but no one is going to put a "now a terp" sign in their yard if they aren't going.

This! A t-shirt would have been money better spent. This will sit in my garage until god knows when.

Even if your child doesn’t go the school, they would probably still wear the free t shirt if it’s nice and then the kid is a walking billboard. Even if my doesn’t want the free t shirt or cap, if the same size my husband would wear it, or I might wear it to work out in or run errands. Walking billboards.

Zero are going to put the sign out if kid isn’t going

Even if the kid is going they might beg the parents not to put the sign out because they are seen as cringeworthy.

Wherever my DC ultimately goes I have been “forbidden” to put out such a sign or said child will die of embarrassment

Not to mention a wasteful. Even a t shirt could be turned into a rag to clean with. Second life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

I will guess Alabama.
OP, I am correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

I will guess Alabama.
OP, I am correct?

We got enough merit aid to make SMCM less than our in-state VA Tech.

[Anonymous]

DD declined UMD last year and continued to receive swag for a few months. We passed it in to neighbors who attend. The sign would have been gone immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

I will guess Alabama.
OP, I am correct?

We got enough merit aid to make SMCM less than our in-state VA Tech.

Those schools are so completely different, you have consider other factors (other than COA).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD declined UMD last year and continued to receive swag for a few months. We passed it in to neighbors who attend. The sign would have been gone immediately.

...sorry and your point is....?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

I will guess Alabama.
OP, I am correct?

We got enough merit aid to make SMCM less than our in-state VA Tech.

Those schools are so completely different, you have consider other factors (other than COA).

PP here. VA Tech is the lowest cost in-state DD was considering. It goes without saying that UVA and W&M (where she also applied) would also more expensive than SMCM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be a new thing. I have 2 kids at UMD right now and neither got one.

I don't have a kid in college, but for high schools it's a covid thing. Kids aren't being invited to on campus events, so someone came up with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Now a Terp" yard sign arrived today from UMD. Our senior has not said yes, and with no merit aid, even with UMD Scholars, will likely go to another OOS flagship where they were accepted to honors college and received merit aid (and will therefore be less than in state UMD).

Bizarre.

I am confused why this is bizarre. It's there for your senior to put up if and when they make the decision. How did your kid get into an honors college without the reasoning skills to be able to sit you down and explain this? Did you think that it's mandatory that they put it up?

It is marketing swag. Trying to stoke any Terp fever that might be within your kid.

I think you are a little miffed about their reaction to your kid.

Congrats that he has options.

[Anonymous]

Weird thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird thread

weird op

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

Not uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what school offered enough merit aid to make it worth turning down in state UMD.

Not uncommon.

OK,
OP name it.