Congrats and GO TERPS! I hope she loves her time there as much as I did
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Congratulations! It looks like an excellent choice.
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Congrats to your daughter! A book allowance is very cool way to structure the aid package.
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We put our deposit down for LMU. Coincidentally, I’m selling one of my kidneys if anyone is interested. 
We did write up a “contract” with my son on what he’s going to pay each year, and mapped it to his plan that he already outlined. So there’s that. He then spent the rest of the evening trying to plan out his next four years. His main question now is whether he’ll do the honors program or not. He likes the more focused program and some of the honors classes sound cool to him, but I don’t think he can use his AP and DE credits for the core, which makes it harder for him to get his minors while also studying abroad. It’s they typical he wants to do everything and not have to make choices.
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As more students are making their final decisions, it would be great if families wanted to post in this thread:
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I went to UM (as it was called back in the day) many years ago, and my D21 also attended and graduated this past December and had a fantastic experience.
My D25 has visited campus multiple times while her sister was there and absolutely fell in love with the school. Now, she’s excited to continue the tradition!
GO TERPS!!! 
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Another Maryland alum here, married to a Maryland alum! (And if we’re talking about shorthand references, I always think of it primarily as UMCP rather than UM or UMD, because when I was there I had a campus job processing requests for information about graduate programs, and the code for general information with no specific program named was UMCP, as opposed to requests about professional programs which were UMAB and the few grad programs that were at the Baltimore County or Eastern Shore campuses which were UMBC and UMES.)
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Oh yeah, it was UMCP along with UMUC, UMBC and UMES.
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She interviewed for the full-ride scholarship but ended up with a partial one. Oh well, c’est la vie! 
Still, a scholarship is a scholarship, and we’re grateful for any help with the skyrocketing cost of college.
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My daughter’s dorm roommate at Berkeley was rejected by every UC EXCEPT Cal. You just never know with UCs.
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I always think of it as UMCP in my head, but my son just calls it UMD.
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My S24 was also rejected from all UCs except for Cal. He took a gap year and will now caucus with high school class of 2025 Cal class of 2029. Go Bears!
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Thank you for saving me from researching. 
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I’ve heard great things about the honors program at LMU. A former employee went through it and is now a physician.
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Ok, she just declined ten schools. It was absolutely the right thing to do. So why do I feel sad?
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Transitions can be hard.
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This is good to know… he really likes the idea of it, and he has a strong interest in research and even smaller groups. He’s just worried it will make it harder for him to double major (or get 2 minors). He’s set up an appointmet with a honors advisor to help him talk through it.
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Every time my older boy declined something I was sad. It’s not that declining is the wrong choice, it’s that it’s just precluding A choice. It’s exciting to have a world of options available and it’s hard to see some options go away - even if it’s not the right school, it got put on the list for a reason, because there was SOMETHING about it that you all liked and now you’re saying good bye to that something.
For my older guy, he absolutely picked the right school. To this day I’m still a little sad that he couldn’t also go to some of the others that offered different exciting things to him.
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There’s also this thread, for honoring “the ones that got away”. It might be cathartic to write something there.
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Me either. But DS, who grew up in the Garden State, would stop on his way home from college to get dinner (buffalo chicken sandwich?) at Wawa. When my welcome home dinner was being kept warm in the oven no less!
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