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[quote=Anonymous]DS is honors at UMd. Once you are in Honors, you can choose among about 8 specific honors colleges - most are 2 yr programs (there’s at least 1 4 yr very intense research program that my son says kids avoid at all costs bc so much extra work). The 2 yr programs have targeted interests like international biz or design and creativity. These programs are smallish 65-100 kids, and the kids live together, often in amazing dorms, and take a class together each semester for 2 yrs. During the week of orientation, the kids do a ton with their honors college and really get to know one another. Also, these kids care about doing well, so are not just partying nonstop.

DC has friends who are in general honors college, which is ~400 kids with no additional classes. These friends in general are having a harder time finding their footing, possibly bc the larger group didn’t facilitate making friends
 so quickly.

Note DC and classmates are not coming from school that sends many kids to UMd so they arrived knowing almost no one.

UMd was not on my kid’s radar at all but it has been a terrific experience so far. [/quote]

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