University of Maryland College Park (UMD) Early Action for Fall 2023

[Deshmukhn]

Please see my comment for selecting Rutgers.

UMD vs Rutgers Honors vs UMass for CS

We considered several factors…not in the order of priority Honors vs Non Honors- having honors college at Rutgers vs regular student at UMD. Rutgers won. Campus: UMD has slight edge with no bus system. However honor dorm at Rutgers are better. Facilities at UMD seemed better with the new Iribe center. Education - most important factor- we reviewed the course content for CS and syllabus of some of the courses and it seems very comparable. Being both state schools, they covers mostly same material. UMD might have bit of edge with more electives but at Rutgers you can do graduate level courses as a part of honors college if you are really up to the challenge. And given you can only take 8-10 electives out of 30-35, don’t see much issue. UMD probably is better if you are focusing on Cybersecurity but my kids are mostly into DS, ML/AI. Rutgers is pretty comparable in that aspect. UMD is more theory based and I guess may make you better equipped for grad school. The class size is also comp…