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Marylanders: Did you regret not choosing Virginia when it came time to apply to college?
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Anonymous
DC and PG County aren't in gun states, but plenty of guns still. |
Anonymous
Not only did I move to VA for the better and cheaper state schools, but I'm also paying a lot less in property taxes even though my house now is worth double what I used to own in MD. |
Anonymous
Athough Umd beats Uva in most categories. I really agree about the taxes and the straight-thinking conservative political climate of Virginia and I really admire it. It is really smart to take a ton of federal money and get the benefits of being close to DC but at the same time make yourself politically attractive to business and be an economic powerhouse. Maryland, of course, is so liberal (and for that reason stupid) that they cannot understand such a simple concept. |
Anonymous
UMD is a big state university. UVA is more like a big private university. Cornell South .... FYI Cornell is a combo public/private and that's what UVA should be. Cheap version of Duke. Just saying that's the perception of high school and college students as well as parents. Many would rather the cache of Charlottesville or Ann Arbor [U of Michigan] than the general environs of College Park. |
Anonymous
| Plus you've got William and Mary, another great school option in Virginia. What's the comparable school in Maryland? |
Anonymous
I used to think that too but the student on student murder problems at Uva and Virginia Tech has me spooked about the mentality and freindliness of the student population. Additionally the much higher crime rate Charlottesville has over College Park was an eye-opener, not to mention superiority in so many measurable standards Umd has over Uva. |
Anonymous
I used to think that too but the student on student murder problems at Uva and Virginia Tech has me spooked about the mentality and freindliness of the student population. Additionally the much higher crime rate Charlottesville has over College Park was an eye-opener, not to mention superiority in so many measurable standards Umd has over Uva. Or maybe College Park is such a 'hood that people don't even bother to report most of the crap that goes on in PG. No one except a few deluded people in Maryland really think College Park is safer than C'Ville or that U. Md degree is worth as much as one from U. Va. Now go learn how to spell "friendliness," my freind. |
Anonymous
| Just going on the stats there were more murders on the Uva lacrosse team than in College Park last year. not to mention the rest of Charlottesville. As far as degree value ...world university rank Umd 103 uva 137..more pulitzers, more nobels, more national championships, more famous alumni, more tangeble contributions to society by graduates, more absolute geniuses graduated. Go ahead and live in your version of reality but you can never use Google, watch Seinfeld, the Wire, Curb your Enthusiasm, a stadium Jumbotron, wear any Underarmour products, use any gasoline that has an octane level, purchase any product that has the universal price code on it, have your or any of your relatives children watch the Muppets, use any weather report that uses doppler radar, ever need an insulin pump or implated defilbutator. appreciate that Nixon was impeached via Watergate, use a frequent flyer program, watch a Baywatch rerun, listen to sirius satelite radio, without deep inside paying homage to the superiority of Umd. I of course never have to worry about that because nobody from Uva has ever created anything anybody really needs...are you guys even trying to be smart? By the way we defeated you in all 4 sports we played you in last week. you guys are pitiful....but loveable. |
Anonymous
| Pp...it would be impossible to live in the United States and not use Google or the Universal Price Code. |
Anonymous
I know....it cracks me up that probably 90% of Uva students are using Google to do their homework and school term papers 
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Anonymous
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Sorry, UMD just doesn't have the reputation as UVA. Try as you might with your lowly pop-culture references. UVA's superior reputation is due partly as a result of the presidential legacy of UVA (Jeffersonian architecture), part of it is the location (Charlottesville is far more beautiful), much of it is the endowment.
UVA: 3.5 BILLION UMD: 350 million Also, I'm not sure where the UMD bossters are getting their stats, but according to US News, in 2009 UVA accepted 32% of applicants vs 42% at UMD. |
Anonymous
That's pretty pathetic. All of this ranting by UMd boosters obscures the OP's question. Compare the public 4-year universities in each state. Virginia: Christopher Newport University www.cnu.edu Degree(s) SACS College of William and Mary www.wm.edu Degree(s) SACS George Mason University www.gmu.edu Degree(s) SACS James Madison University www.jmu.edu Degree(s) SACS Longwood University www.longwood.edu Degree(s) SACS Norfolk State University www.nsu.edu Degree(s) SACS Old Dominion University www.odu.edu Degree(s) SACS Radford University www.radford.edu Degree(s) SACS University of Mary Washington www.umw.edu Degree(s) SACS University of Virginia www.virginia.edu Degree(s) SACS University of Virginia's College at Wise www.wise.virginia.edu Degree(s) SACS Virginia Commonwealth University www.vcu.edu Degree(s) SACS Virginia Military Institute www.vmi.edu Degree(s) SACS Virginia State University www.vsu.edu Degree(s) SACS Virginia Tech www.vt.edu Degree(s) SACS Maryland: University System of Maryland Bowie State University Profile Programs Coppin State University Profile Programs Frostburg State University Profile Programs Salisbury University Profile Programs Towson University Profile Programs University of Baltimore Profile Programs University of Maryland, Baltimore Profile Programs University of Maryland, Baltimore County Profile Programs University of Maryland, College Park Profile Programs University of Maryland Eastern Shore Profile Programs University of Maryland University College Profile Programs Morgan State University Profile Programs St. Mary's College of Maryland Profile Programs If you’re dead set on your child going to an in-state school, and that is the deciding factor on where you live, there’s really no argument that you should live in Va. |
Anonymous
2010 numbers, official state website. |
Anonymous
For some reason you left out Johns Hopkins... The USNA. those two plus Umd are more accomplished and supeioe to all the schools in Va. Hopkins is a private/ public partneship. Congratulations....yuo lose. |
Anonymous
| Umd graduates have made more contributions to life in the modern United States , More Noble Graduates, More Pulitzer Graduates, More works of genius, More Gold Medals, More National Championships than all of the Virginia schools combined. If you want to be cruel, throw Johns Hopkins and the U.S. Naval Academy on top of that. Uva is a good place to go to learn how to do title work and real estate settlements, nothing more, nothing less. |