<p>Is one considered better than the other? I was accepted to both. mizzou has been generous in dropping out of state tuition charge plus a little extra. UMD offered nothing but is in state. Indiana a possibility but I won't visit for a week or so.</p>
<p>We are also in MD. My daughter has been admitted to Mizzou (direct admit as a Journalism Scholar) and we visited the campus in February. We were all very impressed by the J-School. We thought it was even nicer than Medill, and everyone we met at Mizzou was great. The J-School facilities are just amazing (I don’t know if you have visited yet). My daughter did not apply to the University of MD for several reasons. First, she doesn’t want to go to college with all of her high school classmates. Second, Mizzou offers so many tracks that just aren’t available at MD, and so many on-campus journalism opportunities supervised by professors. There are 4 separate tracks for magazine journalism, there is a separate magazine faculty, and VOX magazine is produced down the street from the J-School at the Missourian. She is, however, a bit concerned about culture shock, having lived in the suburbs of DC her entire life. I’m sure that there are great things about the University of MD journalism program, but after comparing Mizzou and MD on paper, we decided Mizzou was better. And after visiting Mizzou and Medill, we felt that Mizzou was the clear winner. Mizzou’s J-School is warm and welcoming whereas Medill seemed sterile and very impressed with itself! </p>
<p>We are also visiting Indiana where my daughter has been accepted as an Ernie Pyle Scholar. Did you visit Indiana yet? What were your impressions?</p>
<p>If you don’t mind telling me, how were you able to get Mizzou to offer you in-state tuition?</p>
<p>Best of luck to you in making your decision!</p>
<p>Yes, there’s culture shock if you come from an environment with a lot of diversity. But it’s also a growth experience. And if you’re going to be a journalist, you need to be an astute observer of human nature! Our OOS, urban son, a senior at Mizzou, has liked it there very much and leaves with good memories and close friendships. By the way, going halfway across the country to college didn’t bother him in the least. I know that’s an issue for some people.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about a culture shock; the kids are very adaptive. It was rather amazing experience for our D whom we brought to the United State at age of 8; and whose classmates were 80% Chinese, Indians, Koreans, Russians and other Europeans 
She made a lot of friends at Mizzou; and now it takes for her a couple of days to get used to see so many Asians back to CA :-)</p>
<p>I feel the same way about Missouri. It is definitely the most welcoming school we’ve visited. We’re visiting Indiana on Monday for a red carpet day. It will be my first time seeing it. Right now it looks like I’m going to Mizzou, unless Indiana really wows me.</p>