Marylanders: Did you regret not choosing Virginia when it came time to apply to college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can have Larry David and bar codes.

You forgot google,seinfeld,curb your enthusiam. the wire, watergate. the muppets, the octane system, pulse doppler radar, boondocks, linear programming, under armour, frequent flyer programs,sirius satellite, insulin pumps, implanted defibulators, artificial pancreas, nautica, jumbotrons, more nobels, more pulitzers, more academy awards, more national championships, higher acedemic rankings in any subject that requires math, science or analytical skills, superior morality in integrating far earlier , located in a town with fewer incidents of violent crime. AND...our students are less likely to murder fellow students.....congratulations you lose...just like the Uva mens soccer, womens soccer, field hockey and football teams who allgot their ass kicked by their future employers Umd students!!!!

Some of these claims are out and out lies. Others are based on a great knowledge of UMd and great ignorance of UVa, UVT, W&M, etc.

Back these claims up with some data. Apparently you're a numbers guy so let's see some.

How many Nobels have UMd graduates won? UMd HOF lists 2. VA Tech has 1 in physics.
How many Pulitzers? UVa site lists 8 for UVA alone.
Academy Awards? Seriously, who cares?

Here's something Virginia grads gave the country: The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

[Anonymous]

As one Maryland booster views only technology as useful here are some numbers from a Patent Database on University patents:

http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/university-patents/

UVA: 800
VA Tech: 455
VCU: 170

UMd: 432

That's 1425 to 432

[Anonymous]

Umd 16 pulitzers. Constitution and bill of rights were not made by a Uva Grad. Uva was produced by a person who contributed the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But that person also had slaves and produced a good bit of urine and fecal matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As one Maryland booster views only technology as useful here are some numbers from a Patent Database on University patents:

http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/university-patents/

UVA: 800
VA Tech: 455
VCU: 170

UMd: 432

That's 1425 to 432

Obviously it depends on what the patents are and how useful they are (Umd graduates have changed the World with their creations). But I think this is more on the right track and I like it.

[Anonymous]

Umd won another national championship YESTERDAY ...GO TERPS....a healthy and happy university of beautiful kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUzKfuZiXA&feature=related

[Anonymous]

UVA household names (alum, founders):

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe; Robert F. Kennedy; Edward Kennedy; Walter Reed; William Faulkner; Edgar Allan Poe.

These are names my immigrant grandmother would recognize.

[Anonymous]

Edgar Allen Poe left early. Jefferson and the others did not go to Uva, The kennedys I would not consider as that great (unless it was JFK and it isn't) Walter Reed- whatever. Wiiliam Faulkner is a good one. You left out Woodrow Wilson...thats probably your best graduate but then again this is all ancient history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Edgar Allen Poe left early. Jefferson and the others did not go to Uva, The kennedys I would not consider as that great (unless it was JFK and it isn't) Walter Reed- whatever. Wiiliam Faulkner is a good one. You left out Woodrow Wilson...thats probably your best graduate but then again this is all ancient history.

You have poor reading comprehension. The PP noted that the listed included only alums, but also founders (the early leaders of a school). Also the PP never mentioned "great"--just that they were household names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Edgar Allen Poe left early. Jefferson and the others did not go to Uva, The kennedys I would not consider as that great (unless it was JFK and it isn't) Walter Reed- whatever. Wiiliam Faulkner is a good one. You left out Woodrow Wilson...thats probably your best graduate but then again this is all ancient history.

You are still making this UVa vs UMd. That's not what the original question implied. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson went to the College of William and Mary. Madison was the principal author of the Virginia Plan which was the basis of our Constitution, a pretty "useful" document in 1789 and today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Umd won another national championship YESTERDAY ...GO TERPS....a healthy and happy university of beautiful kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUzKfuZiXA&feature=related

Happy and healthy if you consider rioting in the street a proper form of celebration or consolation.

Besides, what does this have to do with education?

Here's some DATA on the graduation success rates for UMd athletes: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/392.pdf

I guess the 8% of basketball players who graduate are healthy and happy after giving four years of indentured service to your Alma Mater before they seek fame and fortune in minor league basketball.

Here's the data for UVA, William and Mary and VA Tech

UVa: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/746.pdf

W&M: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/786.pdf

VA Tech: http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/nH8egsr2009/742.pdf

[Anonymous]

Those students are not Rioting....I watched the whole thing and I wish I could have been there with them. They were having a blast and noboby got hurt and no property damage of any significance was commited. College kids deserve the right to be immature at times. Those are the times you remember for life. Going nuts after a big school win lets off steam so you aren't miserable/angry/psychotic/depressed/suicidal like so many at the Virginia schools. College kids don't exist to please their parents having fun at school is just as important as winning championships/inventing Google etc

[Anonymous]

Those players are so good they play in the NBA or Overseas and make hundred of thousands to 10's of millions of dollars while they can. Many have come back to Maryland to finish their degrees for free. They would be idiots not to make those professional decisions. Uva and the rest don't have that option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those students are not Rioting....I watched the whole thing and I wish I could have been there with them. They were having a blast and noboby got hurt and no property damage of any significance was commited. College kids deserve the right to be immature at times. Those are the times you remember for life. Going nuts after a big school win lets off steam so you aren't miserable/angry/psychotic/depressed/suicidal like so many at the Virginia schools. College kids don't exist to please their parents having fun at school is just as important as winning championships/inventing Google etc

Yeah I watched it too. The girl who recorded it on her phone can be heard telling her friend "Aren't you glad you decided to come to College Park?" and she responded "Oh my God yes!!!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Umd won another national championship YESTERDAY ...GO TERPS....a healthy and happy university of beautiful kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmUzKfuZiXA&feature=related

Way to go Terps!!! I love that video you posted!

[Anonymous]

Pp, Uva has this crazy degree called "arts and sciences" that all the athletes take. It's basically basket weaving and finger-painting. Umd doesn't have this program. The professors are just as hard on the athletes as any other student at Umd. Many of the div 1 competative athletes need 1 to 1.5 extra years to graduate due to the high work load during seasons. I bet Gary Williams wishes he had "arts and sciences" at Umd. It would get those pesky academics off his back!