UMBC Open House

[Anonymous]

Freeman Hrabowski is a dynamo. That this thread even exists is a testament to him.

[Anonymous]

Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

I think you are over-estimating the quality of students. Naviance for our schools shows average GPA of 3.28 and SAT of 1285.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

I think you are over-estimating the quality of students. Naviance for our schools shows average GPA of 3.28 and SAT of 1285.

Do you understand average?

We have multiple 4.3 students who did not get into UMCP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

I think you are over-estimating the quality of students. Naviance for our schools shows average GPA of 3.28 and SAT of 1285.

Do you understand average?

We have multiple 4.3 students who did not get into UMCP.

Yes, I understand average. I don't believe someone with a 4.3 is getting denied by UMBC, unless their SAT was under 1000.
We have no one with a 4.0 being rejected and many under 3.0 being accepted.

[Anonymous]

People can keep hanging on to old stereotypes of UMBC but the fact is that it can no longer be considered a safety school for many students. Naviance shows scores usually for the past 5 years and doesn’t necessarily reflect the most recent changes. The average SAT scores have been increasing every year: 1251 last fall, and we were told will probably be 1270 for the incoming class this fall. (and for comparison, UMD’s average SAT is 1322 so not that huge a difference). I’ve had friends complain that their kids didn’t get a huge scholarship to UMBC like they expected because of increased competition. By the time my DS applies next year, I would expect that he will need over 1300 to be eligible for any small merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - does she have stats to get into UMCP?

Yes.

Then go to CP. Just skip the tour in case she doesn't like the cafeteria.

Right - thanks for the tip.
Care to share where your DC attend since you appear to be an expert.

My DC is at CP on a full ride scholarship.

How's the cafeteria?

Couldn't tell you. DC didn't go to college for food and doesn't talk about irrelevant things like that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - does she have stats to get into UMCP?

Yes.

Then go to CP. Just skip the tour in case she doesn't like the cafeteria.

Right - thanks for the tip.
Care to share where your DC attend since you appear to be an expert.

My DC is at CP on a full ride scholarship.

How's the cafeteria?

Couldn't tell you. DC didn't go to college for food and doesn't talk about irrelevant things like that.

I don't think diet and nutrition is irrelevant given they will spend 4 years living there and I will be spending $5k a year on it. But whatever - I see you have your agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - does she have stats to get into UMCP?

Yes.

Then go to CP. Just skip the tour in case she doesn't like the cafeteria.

Right - thanks for the tip.
Care to share where your DC attend since you appear to be an expert.

My DC is at CP on a full ride scholarship.

How's the cafeteria?

Couldn't tell you. DC didn't go to college for food and doesn't talk about irrelevant things like that.

I don't think diet and nutrition is irrelevant given they will spend 4 years living there and I will be spending $5k a year on it. But whatever - I see you have your agenda.

? no agenda. funny thing to say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

I think you are over-estimating the quality of students. Naviance for our schools shows average GPA of 3.28 and SAT of 1285.

Do you understand average?

We have multiple 4.3 students who did not get into UMCP.

Yes, I understand average. I don't believe someone with a 4.3 is getting denied by UMBC, unless their SAT was under 1000.
We have no one with a 4.0 being rejected and many under 3.0 being accepted.

I said they are rejected by CP and going to UMBC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umbc is for students what don't care about pretty or football games.

It's for students who don't want huge like CP, can't afford to go out of state, maybe had a 4.0 instead of a 4.4.

I actually think BC gets more school focused serious students who care about their parents budget.

If you kid doesn't like it move on. Unless you say the professors are undereducated your only points is that it's not pretty, cool, fun.

Not everybody cares about the "experience" they need a great education. You get that at UMBC.

I think you are over-estimating the quality of students. Naviance for our schools shows average GPA of 3.28 and SAT of 1285.

Do you understand average?

We have multiple 4.3 students who did not get into UMCP.

Yes, I understand average. I don't believe someone with a 4.3 is getting denied by UMBC, unless their SAT was under 1000.
We have no one with a 4.0 being rejected and many under 3.0 being accepted.

My DC's close friend had a 4.3 avg and an 1120 SAT. Deferred then denied at UMBC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank goodness we have the $ saved for OOS. VA residents are so lucky.

And yet, I personally know 8 families in Northern VA who have kids who are going to college out of state, at least half of whom were not accepted to UVA, JMU, or VT, and didn't want to go to the other state schools. Back in the day, VA kids tended to go to college in-state, but that's changed a lot over the past 10 years.