Anonymous wrote:UVA and VT blow UMD out of the water. Quality of education is superior as is the environment, weird events notwithstanding. Important to note the the two people involved in the Lacrosse incident were from MD and went to Virginia!
Maryland is a good school but it is really lame to try to make the school look good by focusing on some horrific events at the superior schools of a neighboring state.
Also, don't forget that Virginia also has W & M, Mason, Madison, ODU, VCU, Christopher Newport, Radford--all state schools. Maryland has College Park and Baltimore County and then.... Frostburg, Eastern Shore, Bowie State--ouch. Can't count Hopkins because it is private and the kids who go there are quick to let you know.
hopkins is public-private like w&l but is ranked higher than any school in va. Umd is ranked well higher tham mass shooting/beheading tech. umd is ahead of Uva in world rankings because they think it is harder to be a physics/math/ computer scince major than a english major. and they are right. Umd is immediately adjacent to washington dc...the nations capital...not in the boonies with a buch of concrete buildings like mass shooting/beheading tech or lets pretend to be slave-holders again plantation-like Uva. Thats why umd has so many nore nobel and pulitzer faculty than both those schools put together. smart people like that don't want to live in the boring boonies.