College Visits and DVC Vacation

[Anal Annie]

Originally Posted by corpcomp

Interesting, I went to U MD years ago when they would accept anyone that applied. My relative works in the registrars office and she told me they concentrate on looking at kids from one specific county in MD and lots of out of staters for that extra money. UMD has really come up in ranking and I think is 14 in either engineering or CS. It is huge and since I went there and my wife to Georgetown, those are the two schools he refused to consider. Wants his own legacy. UCONN is really cheap for us at about $18K including the scholarship but as far as he is concerned, it is way too close to home. Does not want mommy showing up with food packages or me checking up on him. So he drew a circle around our town of about 150 miles and would not consider anything inside the circle.

Yeah, UMD is a good school and we may live in "that county" your relative talked about as it's ranked very high nationally for its high schools - but I've heard of lots of kids that have like 4.2 on their GPA's that can't get in because they're in-state. Sad. Since DS is an only child we're pretty close - so far (at 15, almost 16) he is not chomping at the bit to get away from us so it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't want to go more than a couple of hours drive away from home. But living in the DC area there are plenty of good schools in that range so that's OK.