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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMD admissions rate: 44.3% (they don't break it down by residents/OOS)
UVA admissions rate: 36% residents, 19% non-residents

From what I'm reading, UMD can't have more than 1/3 non-residents by law and UVA agrees to the same percentage, but there isn't actually a law about it in Virginia.[/quote]

UMD is double the size if UVA

The state of Maryland has ~twice as many HS grads than VA.[/quote]

Virginia has 2.5M people more than Maryland.  That doesn't seem likely.[/quote]

Sorry I wrote that backwards. Yes Virginia has twice as many high school students than Maryland. They also have half as many spots at UVA than Maryland has. That’s why it seems harder to get in... twice as many kids are applying to half as many spots it’s basic math.

But any student that’s going to Virginia up for engineering over Maryland is simply doing it to get away from their parents.[/quote]
One other factor is that Virginia's roster of state schools after the flagship is robust, and Maryland's is . . . not.

Compare William and Mary, Va. Tech, JMU, and VCU with Towson, Bowie State, Coppin State, UMBC, Salisbury, St. Mary's - there are a lot more palatable alternatives for top students in VA.  [/quote]

MD has 1/2 as many HS students why would they need so many colleges.

UMD is twice the size of UVA, UMBC is  equal to VA Tech, JMU and Towson are equal.... After that are really going to argue who has better schools....

The only thing VA has that MD does not have is W&M but very few kids even want to attend W&M... MD needs to work on St. Mary's

Are you really going to argue that George Mason is better than Salisbury...  :roll:

What VA residents need to fight for in VA is to grow UVA to be  bigger. It is inadequate to educate VA residents. It's 1/2 the size of MD (even though MD has 1/2 as many residents), 1/4 the size of Penn State, 1/2 the size of Mchigan.

UVA cares more about USNews ranking than their residents, [/quote]

I recognize this tortured writing style - it's the MD Booster!  Welcome back, your penetrating analysis always adds so much to the discussion.  [/quote]

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