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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, trying to get your kid interested in your alma mater or your state's flagship?

As a Marylander and Maryland grad, I'd be happy if my kids went there (especially with a scholarship), but I wonder if they will be bored of the campus by the time they are college age if they spend too much time there (games, Maryland day etc).

[b]Last thing I'd want is for them to skip the state school and overpay for some mediocre alternative. [/b]If they go to some super elite school instead, ok that's fine too.[/quote]

False dichotomy and you don’t know what you are talking about.[/quote]

Please do tell.[/quote]

[b]There are a lot of state and private schools that are not elite and which provide a high quality education that doesn’t entail “overpaying.”[/b]  Moreover, there are students for whom UMD-CP is not a good fit for any number of reasons, e.g. they would do better in a smaller environment, want a different set of programs, want a rural campus, whatever.

Beyond that, I want my kids to experience something other than Maryland, because to me, part of the point of college is experiencing something different.  I don’t want my kids to be “lifelong Marylanders” by default because they had no options other than to attend the state flagship located just down the street.
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Can you name those schools for families that do not qualify for FA? [/quote]

There are a lot of threads on this board on that very topic, i.e. re: schools that award merit scholarships.  They include e.g. U South Carolina, U Rochester, Oberlin, the Ohio SLACs (Denison, Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, Oberlin), Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Case Western Reserve, U. Pittsburgh.  The list goes on and includes e.g. Swarthmore and U Chicago (which award very few scholarships, but they do award them).

My kid has high stats and will get into UMD for sure, but is already in at Pitt with merit aid that brings the amount to just a thousand or so more than what UMD would cost for us, in-state.  Who can blame him?  College Park is a pit and Pitt is a great school in Pittsburgh, which is a fabulous city.

There's a big world out there, with lots of options.[/quote]

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