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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think there’s a lot of hyper-focus here on rankings and prestige.[/b] What really matters is what your child does once they’re in college. My DD went to UMD, and she and her friends are receiving multiple consulting offers in the DMV area. The offer my DD accepted includes incoming hires from UVA, Duke, UNC–Chapel Hill, and Carnegie Mellon as well. In the end, it clearly didn’t matter that she didn’t attend Duke or UVA.

Some perspective is helpful here. College is just four years, and where you go matters far less than how you use those four years.[/quote]

Nice post, but I think that your perspective might be a bit off as the University of Maryland is a well respected state flagship university.[/quote]

It is. But many posters here, in our neighborhood as well as our public high school consider it a safety, look down at UMD and prefer out of state publics like Ohio, Georgia etc over it. I am saying this from experience after going through the admissions cycle with 2 kids. Some of my DD’s friends were unhappy when they ended up at UMD and made remarks as ‘i did all the work just to end up at UMD’. 
So even though some people seem to agree on the surface that its a highly respected flagship, they are usually thinking and feeling sorry that your child ended up there while they are convinced that their child will end up somewhere much better.. saying this from first hand experience.[/quote]

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