Do UMD really worth its Ranking?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>Why, in your opinion, do UMD has a relatively low ranking but many excellent students are stampede down there?</p>

<p>How can UMD be a hot pot among students?</p>

<p>UMD is special, because she lies near Washionton DC. How can we really benefit from it?</p>

<p>Maybe the class size is a bit larger than some universities, but so what? How do a class with a larger size different from a class with 20 less people?</p>

<p>All these questions need to be solved, behind, a 2011 freshmen who hold an offer from Maryland, and has been admitted to Honors College, is waiting, HUNGRY for your answer!
Thx</p>

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<p>From my own research on the school, the surrounding community outside campus is Dangerous. Therefore, there are MAJOR safety issues on campus, especially if you are a woman. It is not safe to walk alone on campus after dark and there is a high rate of theft, rape, and assaults. Quite a shame because the school has some wonderful programs. Good luck with your decision!</p>

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<p>I want you to find one incident of rape on campus that came from walking alone after dark. Actually I want you to find an incident rape on campus for any reason even if it’s date rape. </p>

<p>There are no MAJOR safety issues. More students were hurt by the PG county police during the Duke riot last year than were on campus by strangers combined.
No, it’s not a great area, but are you going to run into trouble if you’re smart? Probably not.
And it’s not more unsafe for women actually. The majority of incidents actually happen to small groups of drunk guys. </p>

<p>Do some actual research apart from what the local news paints our school as.</p>

<p>OP,</p>

<p>UMD is on it’s way up the rankings. It was a party school for a long time and is starting to gain more respectability. It’s just difficult for a school with such a stigma to rise quickly.</p>

<p>Because of the DC location, UMD is awesome for anyone interested in international business, government or anything similar. There are tons of employers including government agencies.
Just from the cultural aspect, if you like music tons of bands go through DC. If you like Museums, art, whatever that’s there to.
No school besides us had a larger presence at the Rally to Restore Sanity/Keep Fear Alive. No one after our stop could get onto a green line train because there were too many students packed on.</p>

<p>The average class size at UMD gets skewed largely by the basic intro classes. Math, Bio, Chem and Engineering classes often have 250+ students in them, but there is no large class like that that does not break up into discussion sections of about 20.
As you get into more specialized classes the number of students drops off ridiculously.</p>

<p>If you’re in the liberal arts, most classes are less than 30 students.</p>

<p>Visit the BRB large lecture hall when you’re on campus. This is the largest lecture hall on campus, it is never filled to capacity for classes. I’d guess there are about 350 seats, but in my Cell Bio class there are 150 people. I also had the same hall for BSCI105 (Intro to Bio 1) and it was still barely half full.</p>

<p>Class sizes are extremes. There is 150 and above and there is thirty or below. There is no 150 and above that does not have a component where you are split into a sections of less than 30.</p>

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<p>@teamie, your comment was outrageous, and I hope it is removed.</p>

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<p>lol its not really outrageous PG county is a dangerous area of the DC metro area. No one can deny it. If your smart or not it is a dangerous area… and the cops in the area suck</p>

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<p>It is a dangerous area, no one’s denying, but this:
“It is not safe to walk alone on campus after dark and there is a high rate of theft, rape, and assaults.”
Made it outrageous.</p>

<p>Also this:</p>

<p>“The surrounding community outside campus is Dangerous.”</p>

<p>In no way implies this:
“Therefore, there are MAJOR safety issues on campus, especially if you are a woman.”</p>

<p>And yes the cops suck.</p>

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<p>Depends on what your looking for…big football? Bucolic College town? Maybe it’s not for you. But in my area the kids that get into Maryland are very bright, well rounded kids. It’s very well respected amongst east coast public schools and the kids I know who go there love it! That said, my daughter goes to NYU. Many, if not most of the fun, affordable hot spots are in Brooklyn…that means subways, late (very late) at night. It’s all about being smart-whether you’re in College Park or the Lower East Side. It’s ironic she knows international kid’s whose parents are beside themselves worried about their kids in NY…while I’d think twice about letting her spend time in their homelands…all relative!</p>