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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Delaware

Not too big; not too small
Not too rural; not too urban
Not southern; not northern
Not too competitive; not too easy
Good merit; respectable departments
Beautiful campus[/quote]

It has a great college town...but the admitted students tour was enough for my DD to cross it off the list.  The tour guides basically said this is a place where an average HS student can excel.    Of course, Newark is a great college town...but for us, it was a Meh experience.

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The students who “excel” at Delaware typically don’t excel anywhere else later.  But a few years where all the 5s think they are 8s and 9s may not be the worst thing in the world. [/quote]

[b]Well one of its graduates might be your president soon.[/quote][/b]

A lot of UD grads go into financial jobs in NYC.  A lot of UD grads go into chemical engineering jobs.  The RN program is extremely difficult to get into at UD.  A lot of business grads work in the Philadelphia and NYC arenas.
My experience is most of my fellow students were in the top 10% of their public high school classes.  Most kids are public school kids from better areas, think Chestnut Hill and Media PA.  The Wilmington area feeds the college.  I rarely
met anyone from Dover or Lower Delaware.  Most students are from suburban areas.  I was a kid from rural Maryland from a country background and I was an outlier.  I'm not sure about recent stats but around 50% of students are
out of state.

There were a fair number of students from what I'd call elite Wilmington and Philadelphia families but I was from such a rural background that I really did not realize some of my fellow dorm hall mates were from such elite
families until after I graduated.[/quote]

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