Please Explain the University of Maryland Scholars Program and Honors Program

davenmame
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:42:57 +0000

@EngineeringDad7777 I’m not sure if this matters, but my son went from a class of 1 as a homeschooler to UMD for engineering. I was terribly concerned about class size as you can imagine. Surprisingly, it was not an issue. He was not mechanical eng. (computer eng.), but I remember he once had an upper level math class with only 6 people! lol! One school that he looked at had only one professor for his major and she had a VERY heavy accent which made it extremely difficult to understand. While he realized he might get used to the accent, there was also the possibility that he might not. If he couldn’t get used to it, he was out of luck in choosing a different professor. This could also be true if you just didn’t learn well from a professor as well. My son really liked the idea of having a choice for most of his professors that the smaller schools couldn’t provide.