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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish that College Park was a nicer town in general.  I know PG county is making strides but right now it's not a very inviting entrance onto campus.

I also wish MD had more than one "good" state school.  Va has William and Mary AND UVA.  It would be nice if MD had a second well regarded school in another part of the state.[/quote]

Have you been to College Park lately?[/quote]

I was last there in Feb.  yes, there is a lot of construction.  But it's always seemed to me that UMCP is a campus plunked down in the middle of suburbia.  It lacks the surrounding atmosphere of a city school like Columbia and it lacks the sounding atmosphere of a rural college like Cornell.  It's just there....surrounded by the suburbs.  Once you get onto campus, it's lovely.  There is a lot of green space and it's a large campus that feels like college.  It's just the approach to the university that is blah.[/quote]

Sure it has a blah surrounding area like Princeton, but it is <10 mile to union station, and there is a metro stop to the city.

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Hmm.  Top five vs. top 75. Small, lovely historic town vs. suburban sprawl.

Not to mention being under an hour from Philly and NYC is better than being 30 minutes to DC.

Think the comparison meter may need some fine-tuning. [/quote]

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