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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you that are MD residents and whose children went to UMCP - did any of them feel like it was highschool all over again? I know the school is large but I worry about the temptation to just hang with the same crew as high school and thus not really spreading your wings. My own bias is definitely present here - I chose not to go to my flagship state school (Univ of Wisconsin) because I wanted to branch out and was worried I would just stay in my comfort zone with my very good HS friends that were going to UW.[/quote]

In my experience it's mostly a plus.  I had good friends in high school and a girlfriend follow me to UMD . It was nice to have a girlfriend freshman year, then we broke up .  I met and lived with friends thrown together in the dorm but [b]by senior year , my high school group had a house with a couple others right off campus.  Still very close to all to this day , and since most stay in DC to work[/b] we all still meet for games as well. Best of both worlds and we still party on campus !! Lol[/quote]

This is exactly why I am glad my DC is going out of state to school.  It's a big world out there.  Part of the point of college is to see other places, points of view, and people.  And to consider where one might want to live and work, other than where one grew up.[/quote]

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