UMBC Open House
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Anonymous
| Thank goodness we have the $ saved for OOS. VA residents are so lucky. |
Anonymous
Do you homework first. UMBC is like the bastard sibling of UMCP. It has gotten better over the years but it isn't worth it unless you get tons of FA and your other choices are Frostburg or community college. |
Anonymous
| Parents job is to help kids approach things with an open mind. Not sure if OP is doing a good job at that. |
Anonymous
Wrong. Everything written were the opinions of my DD. I don’t say anything during our tours and let her make her own comments and decisions. But if she asked my opinion I would tell her the truth. I’m still waiting for someone who has a DV at the school to chime in. Seems like there is in person Herr who wants to defend UMBC to no end. Did you actually attend the school? Have you even visited? Why do you seem to live it so much? |
Anonymous
| I went to UMBC for grad school and has a great experience there. Much better than my undergrad years at Salisbury. I imagine it will be more competitive to get into for the next few years. You aren't going to get a good feel for a school at a big Open House event. |
Anonymous
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My high school friend went to UMBC and now has a really high paying career as a software engineer
Most important factor in salary is your major, not your school |
Anonymous
I think people are just reacting to your DD's stupid reaction based on a tour. Posters are not necessarily defending UMBC per se, they are just pointing out that you and your DD's thought processes are all f'ed up. |
Anonymous
Why do you feel the need to call someone stupid because they don't think a school is the right fit for them after spending 6 hours at the school touring. Please enlighten me as to how you are supposed to evaluate whether or not you want to attend a particular school? Is the campus visit not a part of that process? How is that f'ed up? Maybe UMBC work for some but in this case I support DD and her decision that UMBC is not for her. |
Anonymous
NP here. I think the PP was referring to the strength of your reaction to a large open house - something that most people realize is not the best way to judge any school. Why did you even feel the need to post on here in the first place? You weren't even asking a question but just wanted to comment on 1) the parking situation 2) how crowded it was and 3) (and the most ridiculous point) how they mentioned the win over UVA. And I just checked and it looked like you posted about this TWICE on College Confidential. WTF?! |
Anonymous
I had a better experience with the UMBC education program than the Towson one, but that doesn't mean Towson isn't a fine school. People are looking for different things in a college. I knew one parent who urged her DD to attend Towson over UMBC because the nearby shopping was better. Really?! Wasn't an issue in the end anyway, because her kid got rejected at UMBC, but it goes to show you the value systems of some parents when looking at colleges. SMH... |
Anonymous
I agree that a school should cut off registration for an event when the crowds get too heavy. Huge touring groups are definitely a turn off, but that should not make or break one's opinion of a school. We had a miserable time at UMD both times we visited over parking - first time, we were given a flyer to park in a free lot, which was tiny and FILLED an hour before the tour started, then had to find our way to a larger pay lot much further away that was also filled - nothing like circling a parking garage for twenty minutes and paying $9 then having to speed walk to a building half a mile away with your kid arriving late because parking is nonexistent. All that being said, while it is frustrating and speaks to a lack of planning at the unversity (second time we toured, no parking flyer at all sent and had to park illegally in order to run in and get one from the admissions staff), it did not color our opinion of the school as a whole. When you attend a huge event, you have to expect there may be some snags. |
Anonymous
Why do you care so much? |
Anonymous
I didn't say your DD is stupid. I said her reaction was stupid. To get a better sense of school, it takes more than a tour - did she sit in one of the lectures? did she talk to students there to learn from students perspective? did she try to visit the department of her intended major?...etc. It takes some effort and planning. Otherwise, you are wasting your time. |
Anonymous
Yes, she did all of those. This was her third time on campus and she has decided it's not the right fit based on multiple factors, including the awful campus and prison like feel. Sorry if people don't agree with it. |
Anonymous
Keep telling yourself that. A friend of mine had terrific scores, chose UMBC for biology with a full ride, went on to a Master's from Hopkins and a PhD from Harvard. Don't kid yourself that only "B/C" kids who "couldn't" get into UVa or UMd choose UMBC. My kid has a 4.2 average and a 35 ACT score, and we made her visit some state schools as part of her college tours. She was turned off by both UVa AND UMd. She wanted a smaller school where she wouldn't be stuck in 300 person lecture halls and dealing with teaching assistants more than professors. She ended up choosing a selective private, but UMBC stayed on her safety list while UMd and UVa were pushed further down. It very much depends on the student and what they are looking for. My DC has several friends who were accepted at both UMd and UMBC who chose to be a Retriever rather than a Terp - different kids looking for different things. |