Anonymous
08/09/2025 07:58
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMD is the old school college where the kid comes out more grown up, more mature and resilient. Hovering moms don't like it. Not the place for shrinking violets. Men like it a lot. No hand holding, the town is a little hardscrabble (although the violent crime is well below Charlottesville). The UMD alumni have had far greater impact on USA and World economy, culture than almost all peer institutions I believe because of the lack of appeal to weaklings but that's just a opinion. Since the Big Ten invitation UMD has become very hard to get into with incoming SAT/ACTs 4th in the Big Ten basically tied with UCLA but behind the privates and Michigan. It's a big research school with the 8th biggest research budget among publics in the country. The Big Ten invite was mostly due the the research budget and is a Big Ten style school
Including USC? I don't really consider them to be on UMCP's level.
Alrighty, then.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:36
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
It is a place that polarizes responses. Do visit if you can. There's a lot on offer there.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 08:54
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Agree look at William and Mary or even uva. UMD is huge and is in a very run down and not especially safe part of the poorest county around the DC suburbs. It’s gross. I’m from Maryland, and at my school it was looked down upon to go to UMD. Your daughter can do much better.
This is silly.
The campus is beautiful, far more beautiful than many campuses I’ve visited. College Park isn’t run down, especially not with all of the growth during the last decade.
And its current rankings and the research opportunities on campus make it a very desirable school.
OP, check the school out for yourself. Don’t expect DCUM to give you clear answers. People here love elitism and they never agree on what is/is not elite.
Visit the campus and let your kid decide.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 08:42
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:UMD is the old school college where the kid comes out more grown up, more mature and resilient. Hovering moms don't like it. Not the place for shrinking violets. Men like it a lot. No hand holding, the town is a little hardscrabble (although the violent crime is well below Charlottesville). The UMD alumni have had far greater impact on USA and World economy, culture than almost all peer institutions I believe because of the lack of appeal to weaklings but that's just a opinion. Since the Big Ten invitation UMD has become very hard to get into with incoming SAT/ACTs 4th in the Big Ten basically tied with UCLA but behind the privates and Michigan. It's a big research school with the 8th biggest research budget among publics in the country. The Big Ten invite was mostly due the the research budget and is a Big Ten style school
Including USC? I don't really consider them to be on UMCP's level.
Anonymous
08/01/2025 21:23
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMD is the old school college where the kid comes out more grown up, more mature and resilient. Hovering moms don't like it. Not the place for shrinking violets. Men like it a lot. No hand holding, the town is a little hardscrabble (although the violent crime is well below Charlottesville). The UMD alumni have had far greater impact on USA and World economy, culture than almost all peer institutions I believe because of the lack of appeal to weaklings but that's just a opinion. Since the Big Ten invitation UMD has become very hard to get into with incoming SAT/ACTs 4th in the Big Ten basically tied with UCLA but behind the privates and Michigan. It's a big research school with the 8th biggest research budget among publics in the country. The Big Ten invite was mostly due the the research budget and is a Big Ten style school
Nailed it
The big ten invite had to do with tv revenue, dc market. Rutgers also went to the big ten at the same time NYC market. It was all about the money!
Anonymous
08/01/2025 21:19
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
I love that commerical❤️
Anonymous
08/01/2025 21:16
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why? Why? Why?
Stony brook and Bing are excellent in-state schools. Why paying OOS tuition?
Stonybrook is too close. She wants to leave LI. Bing is on the list (and not THAT cheap!).
UMD is more OOS than bing in state. Merit aid is very sparse at UMD I had two kids with great stats, both got into the honors college, one was 1/2 BK and one got nothing.
Anonymous
08/01/2025 20:54
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMD is not a target for anyone. It's hard to get into.
It's a target on my DD's list. It is very easy for in state high stats.
I know several in-state straight A high rigor, 1600 SAT kids who did not get accepted to UMD. In Maryland, UMD is now a reach school even for high stats kids.
You know several kids with 1600 SAT and straight As? They disclose their grades, scores and their admission decisions?
Yes- MCPS
Yes- people around here talk
Yes- you can see on naviance
Approximately 300 out of about 2 million test takers get a 1600. Impressive connections.
The PP is spewing garbage and counting on no one calling them out. So transparent.
Anonymous
08/01/2025 20:53
Subject: Should DC apply to UMD? (and does it feel very "big")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UMD is not a target for anyone. It's hard to get into.
It's a target on my DD's list. It is very easy for in state high stats.
I know several in-state straight A high rigor, 1600 SAT kids who did not get accepted to UMD. In Maryland, UMD is now a reach school even for high stats kids.
No you don’t. You absolutely do not know “several“ kids with perfect SAT scores who were denied University of Maryland.
The poster might not "know" several kids with perfect SAT scores, but you can see these rejections in the Naviance scattergrams if they do exist.
Those are completely anonymous and Naviance only shows data if enough people apply to a school. So looking at a large scattergram of many anonymous stats, you would have no idea who was who.
