University of Maryland-College Park Top Questions

Join a sorority. I have some great friends on campus, but in order to meet people you really need to join a greek organization or some sort of sport.

Too large

I wish I had known that this school doesn't care too much about it's english department. Since it's not sports, or engineering, they don't seem to pay much attention to it. But I didn't even know I was going to be an English Major at the time, so meh...probably wouldn't have helped.

I wish I had know how expensive living off-campus would be because there is a housing shortage around my university.

That I would be stuck paying for the high tuition costs

That the business school was highly regarded but academically wasn't as good as it seemed.

I wish that I had known abouth the on campus services that make the campus even more relatable to the surrounding area.

I choose University of Maryland (UMD) because I wanted to live farther from where I grew up (Baltimore), but I still wanted to live near or in a city. Given that I had very little money and because I was afraid of taking out too many loans, I decided that I had to stay in-state. UMD is close to D.C. and had the cheapest in-state tuition at the time I applied. I also knew that they had a good Journalism school and this was something I was interested in.

I wish I had known about the public transport. Initialy I found myself staying mainly on campus for comfort reasons. Once I decided to venture outside of campus I was a little confused about the surrounding public transport. I think I would have been able to experience more in the Baltimore and D.C. area if I was made aware of the public transport earlier.

I wish I knew that the people are so competitive.