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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The town of College Park is a dump.[/quote]

What's so bad about it? Please elaborate.

Montgomery County resident. Don't make it out to College Park much. [/quote]

Obviously take it with a grain of salt because I was only there for a couple of days for work...but it just seemed really congested with traffic, with a big line of ugly strip malls with nothing interesting in them. Not enough green space or trees.

I still haven't read the other seven pages, but I bet others made similar comments.[/quote]
Yes, because it's an urban area.  If you want lots of green space, you want to go to a college in the middle of nowhere, in a rural area.[/quote]

The College Park campus is a dumpster fire and is[b] always ranked as one of the worst college campuses in the US[/b].

Back to your post, The University of Texas is in an urban area.  Lots of green space, a clean river and several lakes nearby.  Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the US.  You can have a nice campus in an urban area.

The only problem is that most kids that attend College Park (or Global Campus at a 28% graduation rate) would never be accepted to UT.[/quote]

Proof of this ranking? I don't disagree - it's not an attractive campus, but having visited a lot of campuses - I'm drawn to open spaces and green, my kids not so much - they like the urban feel of UMCP - everyone has a different perspective.

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Ranked at number 17 as one of the ugliest campus in the US.

https://www.complex.com/style/a/kathryn-henderson/ugly-college-campuses

Ranked as number 20 of the ugliest campus in the US.

https://thedailyrecord.com/2007/12/06/umd-dubbed-one-of-the-ugliest-college-campuses/

I could go on.  A google search for ugliest campuses in the US will show that College Park is always in the top 20.  Now only if their football team could be in the top 20 things might be different.  [/quote]

Yep.

It's a good school and the campus isn't terrible.

But College Park is a dumpster fire. Compared to Ann Arbor, Madison, Austin, Chapel Hill, Davis, Bloomington and other locations, College Park is pathetic. And sometimes dangerous. There's certainly no charm. It's too bad.[/quote]

Completely agree.  The campus is a disaster.  That being said, I have never opined that the University of Maryland isn't a great school and well regarded academically.  It's just a damn awful place to live as a college student.[/quote]

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