UMBC versus UMCP - what's the difference?

slwalker42
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:12:05 +0000

I like UMBC better than College Park, but I’m biased towards smaller schools. UMBC has some great programs and gives great merit aid. I live in MD, and I’ve seen kids turn down College Park for UMBC. Most of them didn’t like the size of CP. Three of my daughter’s friends go there, two of them are Linehan Scholars and are getting most of their tuition paid for. I think too many people from OOS think College Park or nothing. Towson and Salisbury aren’t bad schools either. UMBC is kind of in the middle of nowhere, you’d be better off with a car there. College Park is easy to get into as a MD resident transfer, I know of a few kids who have gotten in that way. Some of them went to CC, OOS or private and then transferred after their freshman year.