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[quote=Anonymous]OP, please don’t feel bad. I bet your son will have an amazing experience at UMCP. My son received a full ride to UMCP (Banneker Key) and graduated with two degrees (B.S. Computer Science & B.A. Classics). He had an amazing Gemstone experience (not sure if they still offer that curriculum), had on-campus internships, made good geeky friends, and graduated with tons of job offers. After making the interview rounds during the fall of his college senior year, he took a job in the Midwest and now makes $180K in his mid-twenties. I’m not saying money is everything, but it doesn’t hurt. ;) And he loved his time at Maryland.

FWIW, he also was accepted at UNC, Berkeley, Case Western (lots of merit aid), etc., and it was a choice he had to make. We were prepared to pay ~$40,000/year, so Case was a go if he’d wanted it, but Berkeley was impossible out of state (unless he’d wanted loans, which we would have co-signed if he’d selected that option).

There are tons of brilliant & motivated students at UMCP where he’ll find his tribe.[/quote]

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