Anonymous wrote:UMBC and UMD are better than DAR. I don’t know why so many parents and students complain and want to travel to DAR and pay for parking…

With DAR, we could have metroed downtown and enjoyed a nice lunch or dinner. Instead we spent hours driving to/from umbc.

It is cheaper to host graduations at outside venues rather than at the HS itself.

Anonymous wrote:UMBC and UMD are better than DAR. I don’t know why so many parents and students complain and want to travel to DAR and pay for parking…

This +1.

Anonymous wrote:I wish our high school's graduation was at UMD. Much closer and way more parking than the hellscape of Constitution Hall in DC.

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Going to the DAR is ridiculous.

Xfnity is Aplus luxury

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Anonymous wrote:Consider yourself lucky. RM has to go to UMBC.

UMBC has a spanking new state-of-the-art convention center with ample parking. Wonderful lawns for graduation pics too.

Sure, but driving in rush hour traffic to get there before 9am will be super fun.

Drop to your knees and thank God if this is one of your big problems.

UMBC and UMD are better than DAR. I don’t know why so many parents and students complain and want to travel to DAR and pay for parking…

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Anonymous wrote:Consider yourself lucky. RM has to go to UMBC.

UMBC has a spanking new state-of-the-art convention center with ample parking. Wonderful lawns for graduation pics too.

Sure, but driving in rush hour traffic to get there before 9am will be super fun.

Nope. No rush. Everyone drives to DC. Going from MoCo to UMBC is a breeze.

Agree with this. 9 am last year was easy. It just gets congested on the final stretch before the parking.

If you have afternoon graduation though it will probably be tougher with one school leaving and other school is coming in.

I hope my younger gets the morning session again when it’s his turn.

Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that people prefer using one of the UMD campuses because there isn’t a restriction on tickets. I think this is across all MCPS HS.

WJ had graduation at umbc last year and each grad got six tickets. I’m told it’s the same number this year for UMD. The classes keep getting larger. WJ and Blair (the two biggest schools) are doing UMD same day this year. UMBC was a nightmare getting in and out of the campus. Hour plus waits.

I wish our high school's graduation was at UMD. Much closer and way more parking than the hellscape of Constitution Hall in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider yourself lucky. RM has to go to UMBC.

UMBC has a spanking new state-of-the-art convention center with ample parking. Wonderful lawns for graduation pics too.

Sure, but driving in rush hour traffic to get there before 9am will be super fun.

Nope. No rush. Everyone drives to DC. Going from MoCo to UMBC is a breeze.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider yourself lucky. RM has to go to UMBC.

UMBC has a spanking new state-of-the-art convention center with ample parking. Wonderful lawns for graduation pics too.

Sure, but driving in rush hour traffic to get there before 9am will be super fun.

We did this last year for the RM graduation. It was perfect and I hope my younger kid also gets to graduate at UMBC.

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Anonymous wrote:Good God, I hope the no AC piece is false! The answer is too many people.

I heard people say UMBC has no AC, so I’m worried UMD might also not have some.

? it has A/C. UMD also has a/c. What's with all these stupid false rumors.

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Anonymous wrote:Consider yourself lucky. RM has to go to UMBC.

UMBC has a spanking new state-of-the-art convention center with ample parking. Wonderful lawns for graduation pics too.

Sure, but driving in rush hour traffic to get there before 9am will be super fun.

Interestingly enough, driving up north to UMBC in the morning, there is hardly any bottleneck.

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t they just keep it at the home stadium at the school? The UMD arena has no AC and the parking is most certainly probably not good..

It was at UMD before, and there's AC and plenty of parking.

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