Thanks! I actually entertained this option but there are a few hurdles. UMD College Park doesn’t participate, although maybe we could talk our way in. She would also need to then keep a car in College Park, which we weren’t planning on having her do. Probably the biggest challenge is the studio time required. UMD-CP is 45-50 minutes away on a good day, and with other classes she isn’t likely to have the time in her schedule to commute 2 hours round trip plus do all the studio time on top of the actual class.
DC is more accessible from College Park. I looked into what was available there and it seems like the Corcoran School for Art is the best in that city. But it is now part of GW and she was accepted there too. Although she got a good scholarship from them, the net cost is within $5k of UCLA (obviously without the travel expense favored in). If she doesn’t go to a “ranked” school, it would seem in that case that BU would be the better option because of the bigger scholarship.