Maryland over Wisconsin: Crazy?

higherlead
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:40:29 +0000

I am a parent and live about 20 minutes down the street from Maryland. Son also went there for his Katrina semester. College Park is a hole. Maryland Campus is nice but the surrounding area is a dump. Business School is pretty good and academically Maryland has a lot of strong departments but if it were me I would go with Wisconsin.

My wife went to grad school in Madison and I lived there way back when and it is a great college town. The campus on the lake is really a delight. Academics are pretty good and of course the atheletics and all are outstanding.

DC may be a subwat ride away - well really a bus ride and then a subway ride away but it is far enough and inconvenient enough that I doubt DC adds much to the UMd experience. Foryour family the only big plus is it is a lot more convenient to get back and forth to NY from Maryland.