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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maryland has only one top-tier public program: UMD. The UMD term can be used by UM, College Park, or UM, Baltimore, which do not have overlapping degrees. While there are definitely other good public colleges in Maryland, they are markedly lower caliber. UMBC, St. Mary's, and Towson are decent options.

UMCP programs with competitive admissions generally require that you start them as a freshman, which means you cannot transfer in after attending MC. However, there are plenty of other top programs at UMCP that are not competitive or take transfer students. That can be an excellent route to save money, too.[/quote]

Not true - I know students who have transferred into business and engineering in the past couple of years after a year of community college. [/quote]

Did you read that some programs are limiting to 100 transfers?  Information about colleges can get stale.[/quote]

So in the end, those kids who didn't get in to UMD and went to MC for one or two years still won't get in to UMD?[/quote]
They can get into UMD, but maybe not there chosen major.  CS is an example of that.

Prior years, it was easy to transfer into UMD for CS. You just needed the requisite courses and a minimum GPA. Not anymore. There are now only 100 transfer spots open for CS -- both internal in UMD and external like CC.  That makes it highly unlikely that a transfer student gets into the CS program at UMD.[/quote]

Where do MC CS students end up attending if UMD is nearly impossible for CS?[/quote]

UMBC[/quote]

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