If I had the money, and it wouldn’t hurt me financially, I’d definitely go MIT.

UMD prof here. Went to MIT for undergrad. I'd choose MIT. UMD CS is excellent and BK recipients are outstanding, but the environment at MIT is at another level. Being immersed in an atmosphere where everyone else is also exceptional is transformative.

Anonymous wrote:MIT is one of the very few schools in the world that I'd pass up a full ride for.
It's really a life changing place to be.

My neighbor is a professor at UMD engineering and that is exactly what he told me. Don't turn down MIT. My kid took that 1/2 BK and is a business major at UMD.

Different major but we accepted bk and used 529 for kid’s medical school. A doc with no student loans.

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Anonymous wrote:What other benefits do you get for getting a full BK scholarship?

What other?? Hot and cold water for 4 years?? What else do you need?

Basically you are getting a car with a heater and a radio. What else do you need if the car is in a basic running condition? Or a flip phone that makes and receives phone calls. What more can you possibly want in a phone? If you never had a smartphone, you don't know what you don't know. If you've never experienced MIT , you don't know what you don't know.

Weird and stupid thing to say. You can say the same thing about any school like… say university of Mississippi??

Maybe more so Ol Miss.

The only reason to take UMD would be if the scholarship were for basketball.

Anonymous wrote:These are really wonderful options. My kid went to MIT for physics and I actually have a degree in CS from UMD from way back when. If you have the money, I recommend MIT. There is just no comparison between the kind of opportunities, internships, connections and the experience. There are some really excellent people at Maryland. But at MIT nearly everyone is excellent. The peer group and culture is unique. Your kid will get wonderful options coming out of Maryland as well. But part of life is the journey and MIT is a truly amazing experience.

I’ve been to both, UMD for undergrad and MIT analog for MS and PhD. It’s true that at MIT everyone is excellent and that at UM there are many excellent stiudents and many not. But unless you go on to be MIT faculty, UM is more representative of the real world.

Still I’d pick MIT. It’s just neat to meet so many Nobelists etc. during formative years and Harvard is nearby too. Your classmates end up founders of big companies or doctors at one of the Harvard hospitals or physicists at national labs, and it’s cool to know all of them years later.

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Anonymous wrote:DC has been very lucky to receive both notifications this week.

We’re leaning towards MIT as we have saved $$$.

Agree or disagree?

Disagree. MIT is amazing for CS as you can see on their ocw courses. However many people who go their think rape/molestion is okay. Suicide is real. Flunking out of grad school along with extra costs is real. If DC is a self-learner go to UMD. If ze is any good, ze will be constantly be relearning to keep up with new technologies. If DC already goes to TJHSST, it's just TJ 2.0.

This is a bizarre set of facts. No idea what the rape comment is - all colleges are struggling with this issue, no idea why MIT would be an outlier.
MITs courses are designed to prepare you with the fundamentals for a changing world. They are leaders in this but I don’t knew UMds curriculum so I cannot speak to a comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:What other benefits do you get for getting a full BK scholarship?

What other?? Hot and cold water for 4 years?? What else do you need?

Basically you are getting a car with a heater and a radio. What else do you need if the car is in a basic running condition? Or a flip phone that makes and receives phone calls. What more can you possibly want in a phone? If you never had a smartphone, you don't know what you don't know. If you've never experienced MIT , you don't know what you don't know.

Weird and stupid thing to say. You can say the same thing about any school like… say university of Mississippi??

Anonymous wrote:CS PhD programs will usually have full scholarship plus some stipend with TA/RA assignments. So no need to save for graduate school if DC wants to pursue a CS PhD.

Agreed. And if one does well at MIT, then every grad program out there is within reach.

Anonymous wrote:DC has been very lucky to receive both notifications this week.

We’re leaning towards MIT as we have saved $$$.

Agree or disagree?

Disagree. MIT is amazing for CS as you can see on their ocw courses. However many people who go their think rape/molestion is okay. Suicide is real. Flunking out of grad school along with extra costs is real. If DC is a self-learner go to UMD. If ze is any good, ze will be constantly be relearning to keep up with new technologies. If DC already goes to TJHSST, it's just TJ 2.0.

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Anonymous wrote:What other benefits do you get for getting a full BK scholarship?

What other?? Hot and cold water for 4 years?? What else do you need?

Basically you are getting a car with a heater and a radio. What else do you need if the car is in a basic running condition? Or a flip phone that makes and receives phone calls. What more can you possibly want in a phone? If you never had a smartphone, you don't know what you don't know. If you've never experienced MIT , you don't know what you don't know.

Anonymous wrote:What other benefits do you get for getting a full BK scholarship?

What other?? Hot and cold water for 4 years?? What else do you need?

What other benefits do you get for getting a full BK scholarship?

Anonymous wrote:The BK students from UMD are getting into any grad school they want and getting top notch internships. Did you hear about the amazing young lady who just got into 13 med schools? She was in Gemstone and a BK student at UMD, with one year of post-bac at NIH.

I would go with the school that has a better fit for your student after a visit.

Link if you have it?