@Daisy50 Apparently the OP is a Marylander and so am I. Many of the parents in our own state look down on its own schools without further research (I met one pair of parents a few years ago who did not want their son to go to UMBC and turned out the school actually filled in very quick that their son received a letter of not rejection or denied but informing they had filled its class by early April). So my response was not to everyone but the OP and parents and students in the state of MD.