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UMD has gotten a lot better and is a great school.

It's not because kids do not want to go to UMD for the most part they can not get it.

UMD takes a huge number of out of state kids for the revenue. Think like 39% unlike UVA..MY oldest  year out of approx 600 graduating students 1/3  class got got accepted. For my last child only 36 kids from same high school got in. About a 8 year difference, but still slowly declining over the years in terms of acceptance.

Also, up until recently UMD had some freshman connection where freshman started in a program where they could not start classes until 3 in the afternoon or live on campus.They created a private dorm at the tune of $12,000 a year. That priced some kids out or some kids going to class at 3 in the afternoon not a good fit. That program has changed.

Now it's the issue for the Business school and taking a bus to the Shady Grove campus. Sorry not for my kids pain in the neck.

No it’s not exactly that they couldn’t get in. My son’s friends didn’t even apply to umd as going to your state school especially umd is ‘lame’.

Whereas my nieces in fairfax county wanted to go to UVA and so did many of her friends.

One of mine choose UVA over UMD at the time the difference was only a $1000 a year. No reason to go to UMD engineering for that small amount.

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I agree. My DD’s friends worry about college al the time and whenever they think they didn’t do well on a test they tell themselves ‘it’s ok I’ll JUST go to umd’[/quote]

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