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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are really wonderful options. My kid went to MIT for physics and I actually have a degree in CS from UMD from way back when. If you have the money, I recommend MIT. There is just no comparison between the kind of opportunities, internships, connections and the experience. There are some really excellent people at Maryland. But at MIT nearly everyone is excellent. The peer group and culture is unique. Your kid will get wonderful options coming out of Maryland as well. But part of life is the journey and MIT is a truly amazing experience. [/quote]

I’ve been to both, UMD for undergrad and MIT analog for MS and PhD.  It’s true that at MIT everyone is excellent and that at UM there are many excellent stiudents and many not.  But unless you go on to be MIT faculty, UM is more representative of the real world.

Still I’d pick MIT.  It’s just neat to meet so many Nobelists etc. during formative years and Harvard is nearby too. Your classmates end up founders of big companies or doctors at one of the Harvard hospitals or physicists at national labs, and it’s cool to know all of them years later.[/quote]

Why did you resurrect this thread from last year?[/quote]

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