Did your senior get into UVA?
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| Close proximity is a negative on the prospective college list of pros and cons. These kids have to learn to live on their own without weekly visits. |
Anonymous
Not for CS. If he went to UMD over VA Tech for CS, I'd wonder, but UMD is definitely the better CS school over UVA. |
Anonymous
Do you mean CS and Computer Engineering or just engineering in general? Engineering covers a very wide range of majors, so it's really not helpful to try and compare it to CS. |
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UMD: 14th
UVA: 28th VaTech: 44th Computer Science (Graduate School) Ranking by USN Ranked in 2010 | Computer Science Rank School name Score #14 University of Maryland–?College Park College Park, MD 4.0 #17 Columbia University New York, NY 3.9 #17 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 3.9 #17 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 3.9 #20 Brown University Providence, RI 3.7 #20 Purdue University–?West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 3.7 #20 Rice University Houston, TX 3.7 #20 University of Massachusetts–?Amherst Amherst, MA 3.7 #20 University of North Carolina–?Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 3.7 #20 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA #20 Yale University New Haven, CT 3.7 #27 Duke University Durham, NC 3.6 #28 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 3.4 #28 New York University New York, NY 3.4 #28 Ohio State University Columbus, OH 3.4 #28 Pennsylvania State University–?University Park University Park, PA 3.4 #28 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–?New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 3.4 #28 University of California–?Irvine Irvine, CA 3.4 #28 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 3.4 #35 Northwestern University Evanston, IL 3.3 #35 University of California–?Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 3.3 #35 University of Chicago Chicago, IL 3.3 #35 University of Minnesota–?Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 3.3 #39 University of California–?Davis Davis, CA 3.2 #39 University of Colorado–?Boulder Boulder, CO 3.2 #39 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 3.2 #39 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 3.2 #39 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 3.2 #44 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 3.1 #44 Stony Brook University–?SUNY Stony Brook, NY 3.1 #44 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 3.1 |
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You obviously cannot read, PP. |
Anonymous
What is UMD ranked for undergrad in 2012? |
Anonymous
DC is considering CS, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering. It seems that UMD is the winner  I heard that if you are admitted to other colleges than college of engineering, it is very difficult to transfer to college of engineering. Is this true?
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Go on. We'll wait. |
Anonymous
My guess is VA residents would choose VATech and MD residents UMD. I don't think there's enough difference to pay OOS tuition. That and the fact that for some reason zero kids from my kids' Fairfax County high school go to U Maryland. |
Anonymous
| Unless your child gets a major scholarship to cover the tuition, it really is not worth it to pay the OOS tuition. The rankings are not that far apart to justify the cost. |
Anonymous
I'd pick UMD or UVA in a heartbeat over VT for CS. |
Anonymous
+1 Now, if there is a significant scholarship offer to CMU and/or Harvey Mudd -- then those are options to consider over UVA (VA residents) or UMD (MD residents). |
Anonymous
| Does a 50% tuition remission worth considering? It is from a very expensive school. It is still much more expensive even with the remission compare to our state school |
Anonymous
Very true. Most engineering disciplines require computer programming. CS doesn't require engineering. Consider majoring in computer engineering, which is basically a discipline of electrical engineering. |