<p>Delaware, Muhlenberg, Geneseo and a few more, studying business</p>
<p>Major: Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>I chose Maryland over Georgia Tech, Purdue, Drexel, Virgnia Tech, and Arizona State.</p>
<p>Not that I wanted to.</p>
<p>^ I was about to say, wow Maryland over Purdue?</p>
<p>Purdue gave me the best aid (about half of the COA was covered through scholarships/grants) besides Maryland but it was 80k in debt versus 30k so UMD was the obvious choice.</p>
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<p>I chose Maryland over Rice, UVa, and BU (with scholarship). I’m still waitlisted at Columbia University, but cost is probably going to be too much there even if I manage to get in.</p>
<p>Money is the issue here. Maryland offered the most.</p>
<p>UGA, Binghamton, Syracuse, Indiana, Charleston, American, can’t remember…?</p>
<p>Daughter chose Maryland over Syracuse, Fordham, Binghamton, BU, Geneseo, Delaware, Pittsburgh, College of NJ,</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, Stony Brook, Ithaca, Washington College, and a few others I don’t remember. It’s been a while.</p>
<p>S chose UMD over Duke, Wash U, UNC Chapel Hill honors, U of Miami (free ride), Pitt and a bunch of others. He loves UMD but then again most kids love their school.</p>
<p>Between both D’s…UNC-Chapel Hill, Williams, BU… good choice for both of them!</p>
<p>Penn State, Pitt, UConn, Indiana, Ohio, Rutgers, Nebraska</p>
<p>Berkeley, Mizzou, BU, Wisconsin, UIUC, UCSD, UCSB, and UCD.</p>
<p>Columbia and Rutgers (both engineering)</p>
<p>Money was the issue for Columbia, program strength for Rutgers.</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill (Honors), UVA, Drexel Accelerated 7 yr med, and others</p>
<p>UVa, Johns Hopkins, UNC, Purdue</p>
<p>Washington University at StLouis, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest, William & Mary, Vanderbilt, and others …</p>
<p>Wow, why would you guys do that to yourselves? UMD ain’t that great.</p>
<p>Molkette are you from California?</p>
<p>Aero Engineering major (at least for first year). Chose UMCP over WUSTL, RPI and Syracuse. 4 year full ride at UMCP, compared to full tuition at the others. For my family and me, this was the end of the story. Of course this was in 1969 when MD was the “UCLA of the East” in basketball and the “Berkeley of the East” in demonstrations. Unfortunately, I came to a bad end: I graduated in GVPT and went to WUSTL law school. I could have been an astronaut. Instead, I became a lawyer. Oh, the humanity!</p>
<p>Rock2refused “Wow, why would you guys do that to yourselves? UMD ain’t that great.”</p>
<p>It would be useful to hear from posters the reasons why they turned down other universities. I assume that many prestigious universities were rejected due to cost. The higher rank may not be worth the extra cost especially if in-state.</p>
<p>Son will be appying to UMD next fall in CS but since we are Virginia residents I can’t really see a good reason to go to UMD over VT or UVA considering the cost differential.</p>