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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many magnet kids are not super wealthy and UMD gives them very generous aid.  DD got free tuition (not free room and board) and turned down full pay at Cornell.  Of course Cornell would have been an experience but at $80K a year?  No could not justify it.

That said ...remember the magnet is only about half the day.  For English, SS, language and electives kids are mixed in with the rest of the school so there is no second class citizen vibe.[/quote]

Magnet kids get into great schools. I happened to get into Cornell, UPenn, UVA, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western and 5 others. I got accepted into every college I applied to. I went to UMCP because I was (1) going into engineering (2) my folks were actual middle class (3) UMD offered me a full time/room and board. I have yet to regret it 20 years later.

Magnet kids are smart - we are well aware outside of perhaps MIT/Caltech and a handful of other colleges, for STEM you will get a pretty similar/equal education at UMD Honors.

-Blair grad from late 90s. [/quote]

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