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[quote=Anonymous][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]
I think that attending a school with 37,000 students is going to provide a far broader experience than some private little pampering school. I went to UMBC. Sure, there were people I already knew and it was nice to see a familiar face, but I also got to know a lot of people who did not fit the same mold as the people of my hometown. Some students were older and were going back to school. Others were attending part-time while working and paying their own way. The ones who were already working in professional fields turned out to be great contacts when it came time to find internships and full-time employment after graduation.

[b]During my internships, I worked with students from some of the more expensive private colleges and they were the ones who acted like they were still in high school. They were the ones whose parents packed their lunches and woke them up for work every morning. [/b]Why attend a school where every student comes from the same kind of place with the same kind of SES?[/quote]

1.  The plural of anecdote is not data.
2.  Many if not most people do not pay the sticker price at expensive private colleges.
3.  Why attend a school where 70% of the students are from the same state you are?[/quote]

For a lot of families in DC area who do not qualify for FA, choices are limited. Not too many can pay 60-70k/year. Worse if you have multiple kids. [/quote]

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