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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not ED any college. I would EA my top 6 colleges, including the instate college as well as ...UMD.

Sorry, UMD trumps UVA.

In terms of the major he wants to do, what matters is internships every year and good grades in college.  CS is one major where knowledge matters, and not the brandname.

My 2 cents - with an Asian American male student of my own with pretty similar academic results and some pretty impressive ECs... UMD (we are instate) helped him get a dual major, he saved a lot of money, earned a lot of money, got a well paying first job on the other coast, and his mental health remained great being close to home.

He managed to get an equally amazing serious girlfriend, managed to travel abroad each year with his group of friends,  has a great professional network, has zero student debt (merit + mom-dad), has a healthy Roth and investment fund.

Get college education by spending the least amount of money that you can. [/quote]

Totally agree UMD is strong, and yes, on paper UMD CS may rank higher than UVA or Virginia Tech.

But for us as a Virginia family, if we are paying out-of-state public pricing, I think the school needs to feel like a much clearer jump over our in-state options. The OOS publics that make more sense to us would be:

Georgia Tech, UIUC, Michigan, Berkeley, Purdue, maybe Wisconsin, maybe UT Austin if that were realistic.

Those feel more like the kind of public CS/engineering programs where the OOS premium may be worth comparing against UVA/VT. UMD is excellent, but I do not see it as enough of a jump for our situation unless there were major merit or a very specific reason.

Also, my kid wants to get out of the DMV area and is not that excited about UMD, partly because they are already so familiar with that area and doesn't like the vibe.[/quote]

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