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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish that College Park was a nicer town in general.  I know PG county is making strides but right now it's not a very inviting entrance onto campus.

I also wish MD had more than one "good" state school.  Va has William and Mary AND UVA.  It would be nice if MD had a second well regarded school in another part of the state.[/quote]

[b]St Marys College seems to going through a rough patch right now[/b] but I think it has a lot of potential if you want a SLAC experience (in a nice but non-urban setting).[/quote]

Please elaborate. DD is interested in St. Mary's. We looked at the school and liked what we saw, particularly the price tag. It's an honors college. What's going on there? [/quote]

You can probably google it. The school was significantly under enrolled the last couple of years. I think the new pres or ad was ousted as a result (or certainly talk of it). [/quote]

If I remember correctly, there were two issues past 2-3 years. 1) new President and people he brought in didn't mix well with the faculty members and there were some internal frictions to begin with; and 2) St. Mary switched from their own application form to Common App (starting HS class of 2013) and they over-estimated how many kids will actually commit to school. When May 1 came and went, their incoming class was significantly lower than they need to generate $ to operate the school. Now, I think the (then) new President is gone (?) and it may still be trying to recover from the mess. YOu can probably google more details. [/quote]

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