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Anonymous wrote:I wish that College Park was a nicer town in general. I know PG county is making strides but right now it's not a very inviting entrance onto campus.

I also wish MD had more than one "good" state school. Va has William and Mary AND UVA. It would be nice if MD had a second well regarded school in another part of the state.

St Marys College seems to going through a rough patch right now but I think it has a lot of potential if you want a SLAC experience (in a nice but non-urban setting).

Please elaborate. DD is interested in St. Mary's. We looked at the school and liked what we saw, particularly the price tag. It's an honors college. What's going on there?

Anonymous wrote:At our W school in MoCo at least 50% of the kids apply to UMD, and probably 75-80% are accepted. So it's not the school discouraging MoCo kids by any stretch. It does seem like more kids are starting to actually go to UMD from our school, with price being a major factor. For many it's not their first choice but I know a number of kids were accepted elsewhere but their families couldn't justify to cost relative to UMD.

+1 totally agree

Everyone from our private applies to UMD. Many parents choose it because of the cost. DD needs to get merit aid at a private school or she's going to UMD.

UMDCP is much harder to get into than in previous years because of the cost relative to other schools. Plus, UMDCP is accepting fewer in-state students because they need OOS tuition.

I pray DD gets in. It's not far from where we live, but it's a world apart. We're not going to swoop down on DD every weekend. It will be like going to school in CA, only without the palm trees!

Sorry for any IPhone typos.^^

The facts on UMD
1) Umd has more Nobel, Pulitzer ,fields medal ,academy award and Emmy award alumni than any school in the ACC.
2) Umd has more national championships (47)than any school in the ACC. ( For example Virginia Tech has zero).
3) College Park has less violent crime than Charlottesville by a significant amount.
4) Umd grads invented/created the following.
Google, Underarmour, pulse Dopplar radar, Sirius satellite radio, Seinfeld , The Muppets, linear programming , the universal product code , broke watergate , liberty meadows , boondocks , the Wire, the Octane System, the first large screen stadium television , the miniturized insulin pump, coronary stents , the automatic parachute , retractable landing gear , the hybrid engine.
Most of these products of Umd alum are greater than anything out of all the ACC schools combined.
5) Umd is a member of the AAU.
6) Umd is a member of the CIC, the Big Ten schools including Hopkins and Chicago. It shares resources and allows for students to take classes between institutions .
7) Umd as installations from the following agencies and organizations ON CAMPUS... NASA , FDA, USDA, Homeland Security, the National Weather Prediction Institute, the American Physics Institute, Raytheon, the National Center for the Study of Foreign Language. NIH .
8)Umd is ranked higher than Uva in every world university ranking.
9) College Park is undergoing a massive development including a huge 4 star hotel and conference center along with 9 other large developments along route 1 including a Whole Foods center , Urban Outfitters center, and a ton of retail/office /residential projects.
10) Umd - Umd Baltimore have a 1billion plus per year research budget which is top 5 in the nation.


Opinion. Umd is a large Big Ten school in a semi urban location located inside the beltway of the Nations Capital. It is not a school for shrinking violets. Children graduate from Umd more adult and tougher than they went in. It's my opinion that is why the alumni have produced so many geniuses and inspired creations. My kids go there and never come home. They are always busy with their friends from Annapolis , Baltimore , NJ, and NY.. Lol.


Opinion. Umd is a big school in

The purple line will come straight through the center of campus (I think the opening date is about 2021)

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Anonymous wrote:Um, it's the COLLEGE PARK Metro station on the Green Line. Kind of hard to miss.

Excellent. The question was, where is the stop relative to the University and the town? Is it in the middle of the college, that strip with Cluck U (near the college), or somewhere else in the town of College Park? Thanks!

It's across from the tennis academy on paint branch road. Yes, yoU can walk and bike to the campus on a lovely day. The school bus also makes stops there.

Anonymous wrote:Um, it's the COLLEGE PARK Metro station on the Green Line. Kind of hard to miss.

Excellent. The question was, where is the stop relative to the University and the town? Is it in the middle of the college, that strip with Cluck U (near the college), or somewhere else in the town of College Park? Thanks!

Um, it's the COLLEGE PARK Metro station on the Green Line. Kind of hard to miss.

Anonymous wrote:Little known fact

Charlottesville has a higher violent crime rate than College Park.

+1

Little known fact

Charlottesville has a higher violent crime rate than College Park.

I was at the UMD IOWA. game today. What an atmosphere !!

Now that we play Iowa , penn state , Michigan , Michigan state , Nebraska , Ohio state , Indiana etc...

It's so much better than UVA ,wake forest , BC , nc state , Syracuse ... The crowds are huge.

Route 1 is undergoing 10 large scale developments . Btw terp grads love Umd and can go to our school our entire lives for games. It's awesome .

Anonymous wrote:Good research school, but not that many people really have much affection for it. And it suffers because it's in the DC area, where people attended so many different schools and have other things to do besides watch college sports.

You're way off base. I have a lot of affection for UMd, and my friends who went to UMd feel the same way.

Also, how in the world does UMd "suffer" because it's in the DC area? The opposite is the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it is ranked higher, but going to College Park if you live in the DC area is like going to George Mason if you live in NoVa.

It's very familiar, not that attractive, full of kids you already know, and so close to home that you don't have an excuse if the parents want you to come home to see Aunt Maizie visiting from Des Moines.

Yep, that's it. I grew up in Silver Spring and, like most kids, wanted desperately to "go away" to college. The idea of going to the school 10 minutes from home, no matter how good the reputation (and at the time, it wasn't that great anyway), was not appealing. I bet it's the same for kids who grow up in Ann Arbor, Madison, Charlottesville, Gainesville, etc.

I think it is the same for kids that grow up in these college towns like Ann Arbor, Madison, etc. They have big dreams of "getting out of town". It is up to the parents who have more life experience to let their students know that these close to home universities are fantastic and are a great deal financially. They can "get out of town" for internships, first jobs, grad school, and world travel. Undergrad is too expensive to give into every whim of a high schooler if the reality is saving $100,000-150,000.

Not sure about that, my DC goes to Michigan and there are lots of local AA kids there. Michigan is more like UVA for instate kids-hard to get in and many kids aspire to go there. There's also huge school spirit which UMD doesn't quite have.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it is ranked higher, but going to College Park if you live in the DC area is like going to George Mason if you live in NoVa.

It's very familiar, not that attractive, full of kids you already know, and so close to home that you don't have an excuse if the parents want you to come home to see Aunt Maizie visiting from Des Moines.

Yep, that's it. I grew up in Silver Spring and, like most kids, wanted desperately to "go away" to college. The idea of going to the school 10 minutes from home, no matter how good the reputation (and at the time, it wasn't that great anyway), was not appealing. I bet it's the same for kids who grow up in Ann Arbor, Madison, Charlottesville, Gainesville, etc.

I think it is the same for kids that grow up in these college towns like Ann Arbor, Madison, etc. They have big dreams of "getting out of town". It is up to the parents who have more life experience to let their students know that these close to home universities are fantastic and are a great deal financially. They can "get out of town" for internships, first jobs, grad school, and world travel. Undergrad is too expensive to give into every whim of a high schooler if the reality is saving $100,000-150,000.

Actually, everyone who graduated from UMCP has tons of affection for the school. TERP for life