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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Went to another Big 10 University known for its beautiful campus in a great college town.  I work near GWU and have also been on the campus of UMD and so prefer my undergrad college town.  I just think “ meh” when I look at College  Park an GWU campuses.    So many nice, beautiful places other than College Park to go to school.  It’s easy to get sucked up into this hype about UMD.   Unfortunately, Maryland doesn’t have as good of a university system as Virginia.  [/quote]

But UMD is more diverse and some of us (even me, a Wasian, and my white husband) value that over schools full of white rich kids. Everyone has their thing. I'll take "meh" campus and diversity over lush grounds and little diversity. [/quote]

What a mess [/quote]

Right? The diversity of two majors, the same kids from high school, and.make it harder to get into than Yale. AND for night classes! What kid doesn't want to go to class at 8PM on a Friday just so their parents can feel better there aren't rich white kids there? (Note: there are.)

UMD is a fine school. There are also other fine schools that aren't so oversubscribed they're making their freshmen matriculate in the spring, or offering conditional admits to kids with exceptional scores. Many of those schools are also just as "diverse," perhaps even in areas other than skin tone, which seems to be your only marker. 
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You realize that UMD is oversubscribed because it's popular, not just with in state, but some out of state, too, right?

Some of those other colleges are not as popular, which is why they offer a shLt ton of merit to attract kids.

UMD is diverse not just in skin tone, but SES, and even sexuality.  
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