<p>I really want to go to California, but my mother made me choose a public instate college; I chose the UMDCP. I don't plan on going there if I don't have to, but I want to get admitted so I can have that option open.</p>
<p>What about you guys? Do you want to go to college instate? Did you pick an instate college as a safety?</p>
<p>Happykid just finished 10th grade in Montgomery county. Each year her HS student newspaper publishes a list in the last issue of students who have indicated their plans for the next year. Every year the largest number are headed to Montgomery College. The second largest number are headed to UMDCP, and the third largest number are headed to the other in-state public universities and community colleges. This works out to something like 2/3 of the students indicating where they are going in the fall saying that they have chosen to stay in MD. Your HS guidance counselor can provide you with the same kind of statistics for your school, and for other schools in your county.</p>
<p>Before you get your heart set on California. Have a talk with your mother about how much money is available for college. Take a good hard look at how much UMDCP will cost for your family, and how much that dream school of yours in California would cost. Don't forget to factor in the travel expenses between the east and west coasts. Your mom may not be a meanie. She may just be being realistic.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>I am absolutely positively going out of state. My parents and I both agree that I won't even apply to an in-state school. I share the same fascination with the UC's as you but they are all very very expensive (over 40,000 including room & board!) You can almost definitely find an equivalent if not better education for much less which you gotta consider either if you think you may want grad school in 5 years from now or just for your parents' financial sake. If you're African-American, I think you will have a tough time their by the way.</p>
<p>At my school, I would say the most common colleges are UMDCP, UMBC, Towson and HCC. All the schools less than half an hour away. Not to say that many don't go out-of-state as well.</p>
<p>As for me, I'm starting my college search and I want to stay within four hours of home. However, most of the schools that have appealed to me so far have been in VA and PA but I do have two in-state publics on my list.</p>
<p>Also, Many students who apply high-up at my school apply to UMDCP at a safety.</p>
<p>i'm kinda in the same position. My parents want me to go to UMD college park..but i really don't want to stay in maryland. at all.</p>
<p>marylandmike09:</p>
<p>I decided to take UCLA and UCD off of my list because I probably would not get any financial aid from them if I was admitted. All of my schools (including the ones in California) are private, except for UMDCP. I am expecting to get some type of aid from those schools, except UMDCP because my mom said that she could afford to send me there without a scholarship.</p>
<p>JHU is my only in-state school, mostly because none of the others really appeal to me. I don't mind being close to home -- I love where I live! -- but I don't want to go to any of the UMDs mostly because, like, 50% of our graduating class goes to College Park or UMBC. I don't want to go to university with my high school. >:[ </p>
<p>Of my nine schools, however, seven are on the east coast; the other two are in Ohio and Illinois.</p>
<p>@ justaverage: Are you in HoCo? Me, too! :)</p>
<p>If you haven't already, check out the Academic Common Market. It allows you to pay in-state tuition at a number of colleges (most if not all in the east) if you choose a major not available in your state. You can see the specific schools and majors students from Maryland are eligible for here:
<a href="http://search.sreb.org/acm/SearchResult.aspx?state=MD%5B/url%5D">http://search.sreb.org/acm/SearchResult.aspx?state=MD</a></p>
<p>Poseur/justaverage do you guys go to Atholton per chance?</p>
<p>California schools are definitely not known for giving aid so i'm not surprised to hear you say that.</p>
<p>omfg. i do and i totally know who you are.<br>
oh wow. i'm a creeper.</p>
<p>OMG who are you people?! </p>
<p>I feel left out... >__></p>
<p>I've met some Centennial and Glenelg people on here, and lots of RHHS ones, but...!</p>
<p>I just graduated from a Baltimore County HS and I chose to only apply to one in-state college - Hood College. I was REALLY not interested in any public Maryland universities, nor the majority of private colleges in MD.</p>
<p>I'm headed off to Massacusetts in the fall. :) Couldn't be happier!
Btw, I applied to three schools in CA, decided I didn't want to go completely cross-country.</p>
<p>I'm transferring back to Maryland-College Park after going to a private school out of state in the same tier. MD/DC/VA's not where I want to end up and UMCP is very big, but it has a very good reputation and with some hard work, I can find good jobs and grad programs out of state.</p>
<p>Question for Montgomery County people.....My neice failed two Honors classes last year as a freshman, but is signed up to take Honors classes in those same subjects this year. It seems like they'd take her out of Honors. I asked her where she expected to go to college with those grades and her answer, "Montgomery College. That's where all my friends want to go."</p>
<p>Well a lot of admissions people disregard freshman year. Honestly, you should show her where most MC people end up...get her to snap out of it.</p>
<p>I graduated from a Montgomery County high school (one of the "better" ones) in June 2007. I chose to go to an OOS private, but less than three hours away, Penn. The only instate public I would consider was College Park. I basically knew I would get into Gemstone and probably get a ton of money upon being admitted (didn't get to see because I applied ED). It was also my only safety school. I really had no problems going there. The only other school in the state of Maryland that I was considering was Hopkins, but that was mostly my mom pressuring me to stay close to home.</p>
<p>seems like montgomery county claims the majority of CC'ers... represent BalCo!!</p>
<p>I only applied to one in-state school as my safety-UMDCP. Really though, there was no way I was going to end up there. I was set on going OOS from the getgo.</p>
<p>Hah Venkat, my mom is totally pressuring me to head to johns hopkins for grad school to get me closer to home.</p>
<p>Lucky for me Hopkins, College Park, Georgetown, GW, and American (the closest colleges to me) aren't ranked very high in the field that I want to go into, so no local grad schools for me either.</p>
<p>My son is a gonna be a junior in Carroll County. (His school faces Centennial and Glenelg in some sports.)</p>
<p>So far, based on how he's described his dream school, none of the Maryland publics would fit. But, for safety's sake we'll proabably encourage him to apply to St. Mary's College (not the Mount) and Salisbury. </p>
<p>UMCP is too big.
Towson is where we went. Bleh.
UMBC is a techy suitcase school.<br>
and on and on. Just no great match in-state.<br>
:(</p>
<p>For toledo -</p>
<p>Montgomery County Public Schools has an open admission policy for Honors and AP courses. That means that if the kid wants to sign up for it, they can. If a kid is doing reasonably well in an on-level course, the teachers encourage them to move into Honors section at the semester or for the next year. If a kid is doing reasonably well in Honors, they are heavily encouraged to try the AP version of the next course. Moving from an AP section back into an Honors section is only allowed at the semester. I don't know what the rules are for moving from Honors back to an on-level section.</p>
<p>The overall idea, is to encourage the students to challenge themselves as much as possible. So, my guess is that the teachers/counselors think your niece will be OK in Honors this coming year.</p>
<p>Montgomery College is one of the best community colleges in the nation. Students transfer from there into the MD state system and into well respected (including IVY) colleges and universities nation-wide. Your niece could do a lot worse than to complete her first two years at MC.</p>
<p>But, you shouldn't sweat it just yet as she's just headed into 10th grade. A lot can change in the next couple of years.</p>
<p>Wishing both of you all the best.</p>