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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to UMBC in the late '80s as an immature little brat. Attending classes with people who were already professionals in their field did wonders for my maturity and skill set. I also made a lot of connections there which led to several summer internships and easy employment once I graduated. It's been 25 years since I graduated and I look back on my education from UMBC as a very positive time. UMBC is quite a bit bigger now but it's still smaller than UMCP which will lead to smaller classes. I think the quality of education will be very similar at both schools.[/quote]

OP here.  
I am reading college confidential and a number of UMBC students end up going to Harvard medical school. I am thinking because the internship opportunities might be better for undergrads at UMBC than at UMD. My DC is very interested in going to med school.

I am hearing really good things about UMBC. The one negative (for my kid) would be that a lot of HS friends are going to UMD (Is this a negative or a positive? I don't know).

Anyways - I am thrilled that as MD residents  we have this choice for undergrad. These are solid schools for STEM.

Keep it coming, folks![/quote]

My DC was in the same situation. Wants to go the med school eventually  and got into both with generous merit scholarships in both.  He was torn because all friends were going to UMD.  Anyways decided to go to UMBC and immediately found his cohort and friends group.  UMD turned out to be not very close knit community for the school friends who went there and in some ways it was isolating for them. None of the  school friends were hanging with each other in UMD because of one reason or another.

My DC is a social person but not a frat boy.  So UMBC suited him.  It is more of a "nerd school", academics is important, less drinking, less partying.  He decided to live in the dorm, comes hoame when he wants to eat home cooked meals, hangs with his school friends and UMBC friends all the time during breaks.  He is not an athlete but likes sports, he is social but not a hardcore frat boy.

UMBC is more a teaching college and so he has had build strong rapport with the teachers.

I like the small feel of UMBC, teachers, advisors and dorm mates know him, the school is sufficiently bustling with activity and sufficiently isolated from the general population.  Feels a lot more safer than UMD.

I guess the reason of choosing one school over another would be because of other factors like - athletics, fraternities and sororities, merit/ need based scholarship given, access to coveted programs, friends, lifestyle preference etc.   Good luck.[/quote]

12:17 here. Thank you! This is exactly the type of helpful feedback that I want more of!![/quote]

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