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.
Anonymous wrote:You left out Towson and Salisbury and St mary's why.... because theya re just as good as jmu/odu/etc... but barring details Md, has better schools
hopkins > Uva
USNA > W+L
UMD > V murder Tech
St Marys > Jmu
Salisbury univ = Odu
Towson > GMU
Oh.....and athletically Umd has more national championships than all the schools in Virginia put together Uncoordinated and bad at math is no way to go thrugh life!
Anonymous wrote:As a UMd supporter I have a message for the umd serial poster: Stop. Seriously. Just stop.
Anonymous wrote:I guess it comes down to just two schools, really. Harvard and Maryland. There is apparently little daylight between them. Thanks UMD guy, for all this solid info. I used to think Maryland was just another big state school, but in a bad neighborhood. Now i know better. I can now cross Georgetown, Berkeley, and Stanford off my list and focus on the hard choice.
Good on you sir or ma'am.

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not 'UMd guy", but a few years ago, my friend's son was admitted but it was to start spring semester, and so he took some core courses at a community college in the fall that UMd gave him credit for when he started.
You can do this at any college on earth except maybe Harvard.