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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn't you just attend a smaller tour on a non-Open House Day? What did you expect especially after a big, unexpected victory?[/quote]

Because not everyone can take off a day from work to attend a tour during the week. You had to pre-register so they knew how many people would be there.
We did the open house at UMD and while it was crowded they had plenty of tour guides available and each group was only about 20 people.
Also, during regular tour days there is no option to meet with staff about various colleges, financial aid, etc.
If you are going to have an open house at least be prepared for the amount of people. Also, they scheduled it on the same day as several other unrelated events. The food court was a madhouse with a bunch of pre-school kids all over the place. Lines were crazy long and every table taken by little kids not there for the open house.[/quote]

Those are excuses. I get 3 personal days off per year but managed to tour the 6 or so schools that were my son's top choices.[/quote]
Good for you. Do want a patent of the year award?  I don’t get any personal days and I’m a single parent with young kids. Glad you had the flexibility that I don’t. [/quote]

And I am a single parent too. Open Houses are huge so why were you surprised at this?[/quote]
As I said, which for some reason you can’t seem to comprehend, [b]we were expecting something similar to UMD. [/b]This was only the 2nd open house we have attended. Why are defending the school for doing a poor job? Do all schools do this poorly. Reading CC it seems as though other schools do a much better job. In our opinion UMBC did a poor job of selling the school to us. You were not even there but somehow think we did something wrong. [/quote]

Do you homework first. UMBC is like the bastard sibling of UMCP. It has gotten better over the years but it isn't worth it unless you get tons of FA and your other choices are Frostburg or community college.[/quote]

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