Rethinking Maryland

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Anonymous wrote:I wish that College Park was a nicer town in general. I know PG county is making strides but right now it's not a very inviting entrance onto campus.

I also wish MD had more than one "good" state school. Va has William and Mary AND UVA. It would be nice if MD had a second well regarded school in another part of the state.

Have you been to College Park lately?

I was last there in Feb. yes, there is a lot of construction. But it's always seemed to me that UMCP is a campus plunked down in the middle of suburbia. It lacks the surrounding atmosphere of a city school like Columbia and it lacks the sounding atmosphere of a rural college like Cornell. It's just there....surrounded by the suburbs. Once you get onto campus, it's lovely. There is a lot of green space and it's a large campus that feels like college. It's just the approach to the university that is blah.

Sure it has a blah surrounding area like Princeton, but it is <10 mile to union station, and there is a metro stop to the city.

Hmm. Top five vs. top 75. Small, lovely historic town vs. suburban sprawl.

Not to mention being under an hour from Philly and NYC is better than being 30 minutes to DC.

Think the comparison meter may need some fine-tuning.

The PP was not comparing ranking of schools, but the fact is there is no decent place in a Princeton to take a client and the hotel situation is terrible.

Though, I would choose a UMD STEM degree over Princeton any day... But that is another debate.

Philly? Really? Yuck!
NYC... 1 hour... Maybe in the middle of the night.

Don't think many would agree with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Maryland gets little attention (especially among the private school crowd) here despite being ranked above schools such as VATech, Indiana and Miami of Ohio that are mentioned regularly. Maryland seems to be held in higher regard by students in New Jersey (1,500 a year go to Maryland) than by DMV students. Maryland has a 95% retention rate that is in line with Top 25 schools and much higher than other schools in the rankings.

The schools that you listed are in pretty, small town locations, with major cities within driving distance. Maybe that is why people prefer them. Also, kids like to get away from home and Maryland may feel like you are going to school in your backyard.

I went to Indiana and I, personally, never liked the scuzzy Route 1 that leads into the University of Maryland. Ick. Indiana Univ. at Bloomington tops Maryland by leaps and bounds if you are talking about the idyllic college town.

Why didn't you stay closer to Bloomington and come crawling back to Umd territory? Because it's in the middle of loserville! it was fun pounding you in the 2002 natty and last week in football. BTW you rank really low in all world university rankings.

This kind of goofy trash talk is why I'd never want to attend a Division I school. Too much emphasis on sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If UMD had this alumni get together it would be fun, awesome and unmatchable by many schools

Karen Allen
Boomer Esiason
Gayle King
Jim Henson
Randy White
Larry David
Jason Kravitz
Scott Van Pelt
Pam Ward
Robin Quivers
David Simon
Dianne Weist
Gail Berman
Sergey Brin
Mark mcewen
Kevin Plank
Ed Snider (76ers/flyers owner)
Dan Snyder
Carl Bernstein
Bonnie Bernstein
Norm Chad
Tim Kirkjian
Heidi Collins
Kiran Chetry


Hosted by Juliana Dipandi Rencik

Wow...nobody can match that star power !!

The only names I recognize are Gayle King, Jim Henson, Larry David, Diane Weist, Sergy Brin, Dan Snyder (scumbag), Carl Bernstein and Juliana Rancik. Waiting for the UMD booster to do a little UMDCP glossary.

[Anonymous]

Kevin Plank founded Under Armour.
You should really get out more pp.

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20:24 post says much more about the poster than UMD

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Left out Connie Chung( her date would be Morry Povich lol)

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin Plank founded Under Armour.
You should really get out more pp.

Athletic clothing company founder, right? Sorry I don't consider this kind of knowledge important. I do like the commercial Under Armour recently released featuring Misty Copeland though. Do you know who she is?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin Plank founded Under Armour.
You should really get out more pp.

Athletic clothing company founder, right? Sorry I don't consider this kind of knowledge important. I do like the commercial Under Armour recently released featuring Misty Copeland though. Do you know who she is?

Umd has lots of alumni like Kevin Plank(creators and inventors of modern American culture and economy)

I don't know why but Georgetown /UVA /Unc /Vt/penn state don't have any.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kevin Plank founded Under Armour.
You should really get out more pp.

Anonymous wrote:20:24 post says much more about the poster than UMD

Anonymous wrote:Left out Connie Chung( her date would be Morry Povich lol)

UMD booster can you please say everything you're going to say in one go instead of in 3 different posts. You aren't fooling anyone.

[Anonymous]

I am a bit nervous about this guy and I think I'd be afraid to send DC to UMD if there are folks like him roaming the campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a bit nervous about this guy and I think I'd be afraid to send DC to UMD if there are folks like him roaming the campus.

UMD is for gritty/tough achievers. someone known as "dear child" ain't gonna survive.