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Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Troll...don't feed. George Mason is fine but to compare it to UMd., UVa or PSU is sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol..^^ UMD is superior too all those schools on every world ranking except UsNews.
UMD has more Nobel / Pulitzer / academy award / fields medal and Emmy award winning alumni than all those schools combined.
UMD grads invented Google/Sirius satellite radio/ the muppets/ universal price code /linear programming and tons of others .

Look up what those schools alumni have created ... Use google (lol)... Get back to me so I can laugh.

UMD CP/Balt is #3 in the country in research funding.

Uh, no. The first world ranking I looked out didn't even have Maryland in the top 100. Lots of other American schools were there including ACC schools like UNC, Big Ten schools like Wisconsin and Purdue, and other top-notch East Coast schools like NYU and Boston University. Nice try. But the facts do not support this irrational Terp boosterism.

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2013#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=

And where does geo mason rank? #945? Somewhere below Arkansas Bible College and Kennesaw State....

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt. [/quote]

Mason? VCU? Please....[/quote]

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.[/quote]

Oh for the love of...

There is absolutely no similarity between UMD or Wisconsin with George Mason. George Mason did not even exist 60 years ago, looks like a commuter college, has an average incoming class SAT 1 standard deviations below UW and at least 1.5 standard deviations below UMD.

GMU peer schools include ODU and VCU and would never have a chance at either the ACC or B10.

UMD's are UNC, Penn State, etc [/quote]

You are seriously overestimating Maryland and the Big 10, or 12, or 14 or whatever they are this week.. Indiana has a 74% acceptance rate! Ohio state's is 64%. Iowa's is 78%! At 55% Mason is a lot more selective than those supersized education factories. That's why Maryland loses students to Mason, not Iowa. Maryland is a decent school, but no Penn State, UVA, or UNC. That is just delusion.[/quote]

Maybe, but t s far FAR more selective than GMU. Go away GMU troll.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.

Oh for the love of...

There is absolutely no similarity between UMD or Wisconsin with George Mason. George Mason did not even exist 60 years ago, looks like a commuter college, has an average incoming class SAT 1 standard deviations below UW and at least 1.5 standard deviations below UMD.

GMU peer schools include ODU and VCU and would never have a chance at either the ACC or B10.

UMD's are UNC, Penn State, etc

You are seriously overestimating Maryland and the Big 10, or 12, or 14 or whatever they are this week.. Indiana has a 74% acceptance rate! Ohio state's is 64%. Iowa's is 78%! At 55% Mason is a lot more selective than those supersized education factories. That's why Maryland loses students to Mason, not Iowa. Maryland is a decent school, but no Penn State, UVA, or UNC. That is just delusion.

Self selection. Iowa has a higher entering GPA and SAT. GMU or whatever your school is, must have more functional illiterates applying.

Anonymous wrote:Lol..^^ UMD is superior too all those schools on every world ranking except UsNews.
UMD has more Nobel / Pulitzer / academy award / fields medal and Emmy award winning alumni than all those schools combined.
UMD grads invented Google/Sirius satellite radio/ the muppets/ universal price code /linear programming and tons of others .

Look up what those schools alumni have created ... Use google (lol)... Get back to me so I can laugh.

UMD CP/Balt is #3 in the country in research funding.

Uh, no. The first world ranking I looked out didn't even have Maryland in the top 100. Lots of other American schools were there including ACC schools like UNC, Big Ten schools like Wisconsin and Purdue, and other top-notch East Coast schools like NYU and Boston University. Nice try. But the facts do not support this irrational Terp boosterism.

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2013#sorting=rank+region=+country=+faculty=+stars=false+search=

Anonymous wrote:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aC4J8_DhDTU

This explains everything.

Lol..^^ UMD is superior too all those schools on every world ranking except UsNews.
UMD has more Nobel / Pulitzer / academy award / fields medal and Emmy award winning alumni than all those schools combined.
UMD grads invented Google/Sirius satellite radio/ the muppets/ universal price code /linear programming and tons of others .

Look up what those schools alumni have created ... Use google (lol)... Get back to me so I can laugh.

UMD CP/Balt is #3 in the country in research funding.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.

Oh for the love of...

There is absolutely no similarity between UMD or Wisconsin with George Mason. George Mason did not even exist 60 years ago, looks like a commuter college, has an average incoming class SAT 1 standard deviations below UW and at least 1.5 standard deviations below UMD.

GMU peer schools include ODU and VCU and would never have a chance at either the ACC or B10.

UMD's are UNC, Penn State, etc

You are seriously overestimating Maryland and the Big 10, or 12, or 14 or whatever they are this week.. Indiana has a 74% acceptance rate! Ohio state's is 64%. Iowa's is 78%! At 55% Mason is a lot more selective than those supersized education factories. That's why Maryland loses students to Mason, not Iowa. Maryland is a decent school, but no Penn State, UVA, or UNC. That is just delusion.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.

What is a Mason?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.

Oh for the love of...

There is absolutely no similarity between UMD or Wisconsin with George Mason. George Mason did not even exist 60 years ago, looks like a commuter college, has an average incoming class SAT 1 standard deviations below UW and at least 1.5 standard deviations below UMD.

GMU peer schools include ODU and VCU and would never have a chance at either the ACC or B10.

UMD's are UNC, Penn State, etc

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Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....

Maryland has much more in common with Mason than Wisconsin. That is obvious to even the most casual observer. They actually compete for many of the same students. Our neighbor, a math major, narrowed it down to these two, then chose Maryland. No way was this kid going to school somewhere in flyover country.

Anonymous wrote:Jeez I must be completely ignorant of colleges. What is BIG 10? Is this in reference to athletics or some kind of education or research consortium?

It's both. It's the most powerful university conference politically and it gets the most research money from the government . It's also the richest athletic conference.

Anonymous wrote:The Big 10 wanted Maryland so all the other teams get at least one cupcake a year to make them bowl eligible.

Whatever sports Maryland still plays, after cutting most of their programs, are not going to be thrilled to be heading up to frigid and distant Ann Arbor in April when it is springtime in Carolina to get their butts kicked by a sports powerhouse.

On the plus side, maybe the Maryland students will have fewer chances to riot in the streets after winning a regular season conference basketball game.

The Big ten is so tough lol... MD will beat Rutgers ,Purdue , northwestern , Illinois ,Minnesota every year and split the rest.
Nothing in the Big 10 colder than Syracuse BC? Pitt ? Louisville? Notre dame ?

Umd will be going to Pennsylvania , NJ , Michigan , Ohio and Indiana mostly. What's the difference?

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Anonymous wrote:Jeez I must be completely ignorant of colleges. What is BIG 10? Is this in reference to athletics or some kind of education or research consortium?

Hah! The Big 10 is a college football conference, but not the best one. It's all about football. All the other sports and the academics are just along for the ride.

That's funny. The big ten makes up more than 25% of all the research dollars spent at the university level. They have the biggest stadiums because people care about the flagship state university.

The ACC is the conference that's obsessed with sports UNC gives out diplomas to illiterates so they can play football. The conference brings in Louisville community college to help football. The BIG 10 would never tolerate or consider anything close . That's why football has suffered in the Big 10. Too focused on actually making players stay eligible . The ACC football players would get crushed by the Big 10 players on an SAT test .

Anonymous wrote:Nice. But the real Big Ten schools are mostly a thousand miles away. Maryland has more in common with UVA, UNC, NC State, VA Tech, Mason, VCU and Pitt.

Mason? VCU? Please....