Tuesday, September 7, 2010

At UMass, top rung remains out of reach

At UMass, top rung remains out of reach

In went the pink bath towels, the extra-long sheet sets, and the plastic shower caddy. Maggie Davis, a Wayland High School graduate,. Pandora bracelets online shop supply pandora beads,pandora bracelets,Silver,Gold,Murano Glass.We sure you will like when you see their workmanship. and her mother stuffed the cardboard boxes to the brim on a steaming Saturday morning in August — six cartons bound for the University of Michigan, 800 miles away.

The University of Massachusetts, about two hours down the road from home, was never on her screen.

For the Davises, and thousands of other Bay State families choosing colleges each year, UMass Amherst, the academic flagship of the state system, is simply not good enough. The 4.0 student — the kind of candidate the state university covets — didn’t even bother to apply.

Instead, the Davises opted to shell out more than twice what it would cost to attend UMass for what they view as a superior education at a leading public institution in another state.

“Look, we would love to pay less, but you just have to make that investment,’’ said George Davis,there is a very real possibility of having chanel jewelry a distortion of facial parts because you will be so close to your subject. Mag gie’s father. “Michigan, California,. Large quantities of high quality replica watches.wholesale replica rolex watches, have been sold out here to various types of people. North Carolina, Virginia — they are killer state systems. Massachusetts is just not thought of as in the same class.’’

The students aren’t just fleeing to the elite flagships. They are flocking next door to Connecticut,. The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd. Vermont, New Hampshire — all of which have seen interest from Massachusetts students soar in the past decade. It is a kind of referendum on public higher education here, and the results aren’t flattering.

At UConn, the number of undergraduates from Massachusetts has risen 70 percent during that time to more than 1,100, while the number of Connecticut students enrolled at UMass Amherst dropped by 5.5 percent to around 600.

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