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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as personalities...

Towson is a lot like GMU in VA: a pleasant campus in suburbia. Nothing like UMd or Florida State or even UCF.

Frostburg is a coherent campus but it's wayyyyy out in western MD and the academics aren't as strong.

St. Mary's is a liberal arts college way down by the water. It's gorgeous and a good deal if your child wants a slac, not a big uni.

UMBC is particularly well known for sciences and hosts the prestigious Meyerhoff Scholars program. It is where the health sciences majors are. [/quote]

Native Marylander here and I agree with these descriptions. There is also Salisbury on the Eastern Shore - [b]I believe the academics are similar to Frostburg[/b] - and also Morgan State, which is an HBCU.

As an alum, I will give a shout-out to SMCM. I went there way back when and loved it, but it is very small and in a very rural setting. It was life-changing for me in only the best ways.

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I'm not sure that the bolded is true. Salisbury is know more for its business school, and is building up its health sciences programs as well. [/quote]

Frostburg's admissions rate is 74%
Salisbury's admissions rate is 77.6%

Salisbury claims to have slightly higher SATs but it's a difficult comparison when so many schools accept kids without test scores.

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Well, US News ranks Salisbury as "selective" and Frostburg as "less selective." Frostburg has an acceptance rate of 74%, and half the applicants admitted to Frostburg State University have an SAT score between 910 and 1130 or an ACT score of 17 and 24.  Salisbury is "selective" with 78% acceptance rate and an early acceptance rate of 86.1%. Half the applicants admitted to Salisbury University have an SAT score between 1093 and 1268 or an ACT score of 20 and 24.

This is unscientific, but based on the people I know who go to to other Maryland schools, including Salisbury, UMBC, and Towson, very few of them apply to Frostburg.[/quote]

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