North Carolina

[Essexfenwick]

Sorry

Alumni that create
Andy Griffith
Motley fool
And Micheal Jordan

Don’t match mighty UMD
With

Larry David - Seinfeld
Jim Henson- muppets
David Simon - the wire
Kenny Kramm- FlavorX
Alex Severinsky - hybrid engine
Harry Smith- pulse Doppler radar
Kevin Plank- underarmour
Sergey Brin - Google
George Laurer - the Universal Price Bar Code
Robert Briskman - launched Sirius Satellite
James Clark - soft contact lenses
Robert Fischell- artificial pancreas, flexible artery stents , rechargeable pacemaker

Russell Marker- the octane system
Tim Sweeney- Epic Games / Fortnite
George Danzig- linear programming
Carl Bernstein- Broke Watergate


But nice try

[Lewisfrederick]

Sorry

Alumni that create
Andy Griffith
Motley fool
And Micheal Jordan

Don’t match mighty UMD
With

Larry David - Seinfeld
Jim Henson- muppets
David Simon - the wire
Kenny Kramm- FlavorX
Alex Severinsky - hybrid engine
Harry Smith- pulse Doppler radar
Kevin Plank- underarmour
Sergey Brin - Google
George Laurer - the Universal Price Bar Code
Robert Briskman - launched Sirius Satellite
James Clark - soft contact lenses
Robert Fischell- artificial pancreas, flexible artery stents , rechargeable pacemaker

Russell Marker- the octane system
Tim Sweeney- Epic Games / Fortnite
George Danzig- linear programming
Carl Bernstein- Broke Watergate


But nice try

Do you just want me to list famous UNC alumni?
This incredible UMD education clearly never taught you about the straw man fallacy.
UNC has 9 Nobel prize winners, 23 Pulitzer Prize winners and 51 Rhodes Scholars.
Correct me if I am wrong, Maryland has had 3 Nobel Prize winners, 15* Pulitzer Prize winners and 2 Rhodes Scholars?
The US World and News Report ranked Maryland 58th and 19th among public schools. That same rankings had UNC 28th and 5th among public schools.
Maryland’s acceptance rate is 47% to UNC’s 23%.

I don’t know alumni that well off the top of my head, but if I do a quick 15 minute scan on the internet…

Famous Athletic Alumni
MJ (Goat Basketball player)
LT (Goat Football player)
Mia Hamm (Goat Women’s Soccer player)

Chairman/CEO/Former CEO’s of company’s including:
Hershey
BB&T
Habitat For Humanity
Motley Fool
Coca-Cola
Bloomberg
JP Morgan
Warner Media
Hulu
Citigroup
Krispy Kreme
Cisco
Bank of America
Sun Trust
Speedway Motorsports

Former US president, US Vice President, numerous governors including states such as NC, Florida, Michigan, Alaska, West Virginia

Inventor of Pepsi
Inventor of the Xbox
Current Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Current Director of the National Cancer Institute
Doctor who developed the Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine
Statistician who pioneered the theory of cross-validation and predictive inference in criminal trials. (Overturned many False Convictions that used DNA)
Inventor of the Collagen Meniscus Implant (re-growing the meniscus cartilage in the knee)
Inventor of the stem cell articular cartilage repair
Inventor of the Three-tunnel technique of Meniscus Transplantation
Inventor of the Z-Process (antigen stripping technique that humanizes animal tissues)
Founder of transpersonal Psychology
Doctor who eradicated numerous venereal diseases and leprosy in China
Doctor who created the human genome project
Founder of Rescue Reel, a personal escape device to permit people to escape from buildings as high as 100 stories
Former President of NBA G-League
Director of multiple Marvel MCU movies
Andy Griffith
Oscar winning Actress
Oscar winning Screen-Writer
Author of the Magic Treehouse book series
Ken Jeong (Duke Alumni as well)

And I did all that within 20 minutes of research.

[Essexfenwick]

Google alone is bigger than all of those.

Sorry

[Essexfenwick]

You can’t go one day without UMD in your life

Google
Seinfeld
Hybrid Engine
Octane system
Pulse Doppler Radar (weather radar)
Universal price bar code
Sirius Satellite Radio

If UNC evaporated vs UMD evaporated the world would only be radically changed by no UMD impact.

[Essexfenwick]

Omg… I don’t want to pile on.. but I was going to admit the inventor of Pepsi was pretty good for UNC. Falls between Underarmour and well below the Muppets ( which… let’s face it Henson was a genius) since it was basically a copy of Coke. Then it turns out that the Pepsi inventor went to UMD medical school.. so now UNC gets pounded even worse ! All that other crap.. lawyers, politicians, business managers… test takers .. UMD and every college has tons of that stuff that’s not big enough to matter. UMD is lacrosse and geniuses (and Crabcakes).

[Essexfenwick]

Ok…. I’m really sorry I didn’t include this in the prior post … but it’s late and I forgot.


….. the richest man in North Carolina is the UMD alum that invented Fortnite (which is way down the list of UMD impactful unable to escape even one day of having to use genius)

[DMac]

No bonus points for the Coke/Pepsi, absolutely awful stuff.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/297600

[watcherinthewoods]

This thread and the twin in the Maryland thread are making me laugh. Y’all are funny!

Both schools have a tremendous history of nurturing and supporting women’s athletics … and have hardware to show for their effort and investment. You can get a great education at either … largely influenced by the culture and environment created by the adults in the room.

[hmmm]

Who the hell cares about this? Can we please get back to lacrosse?

[Brownlax]

Who the hell cares about this? Can we please get back to lacrosse?

+1

[Brownlax]

Sorry

Alumni that create
Andy Griffith
Motley fool
And Micheal Jordan

Don’t match mighty UMD
With

Larry David - Seinfeld
Jim Henson- muppets
David Simon - the wire
Kenny Kramm- FlavorX
Alex Severinsky - hybrid engine
Harry Smith- pulse Doppler radar
Kevin Plank- underarmour
Sergey Brin - Google
George Laurer - the Universal Price Bar Code
Robert Briskman - launched Sirius Satellite
James Clark - soft contact lenses
Robert Fischell- artificial pancreas, flexible artery stents , rechargeable pacemaker

Russell Marker- the octane system
Tim Sweeney- Epic Games / Fortnite
George Danzig- linear programming
Carl Bernstein- Broke Watergate


But nice try

The out-of-state acceptance rate at UNC is 14% which makes it very hard to get into.

https://admissionslawsuit.unc.edu/about ... pplicants.

[McKeldin45]

UNC takes a ton of transfer students from out of state that evens out that freshmen acceptance rate.

[Essexfenwick]

Plus you don’t have to be literate to graduate. So it’s a pretty easy school.

[Brownlax]

Plus you don’t have to be literate to graduate. So it’s a pretty easy school.

Did you not get into UNC?

[seacoaster]

Back to lacrosse? Or keep with the p*ssing contest?

[LarryGamLax]

Like I have said many times, there is no such thing as a bad academic school. I try to never compare and contrast schools based on who their alumni are. Every school has their distinguished graduates, whom have made their mark on our society.

[8meterPA]

Like I have said many times, there is no such thing as a bad academic school. I try to never compare and contrast schools based on who their alumni are. Every school has their distinguished graduates, whom have made their mark on our society.

What about Dook?

[Lewisfrederick]

Omg… I don’t want to pile on.. but I was going to admit the inventor of Pepsi was pretty good for UNC. Falls between Underarmour and well below the Muppets ( which… let’s face it Henson was a genius) since it was basically a copy of Coke. Then it turns out that the Pepsi inventor went to UMD medical school.. so now UNC gets pounded even worse ! All that other crap.. lawyers, politicians, business managers… test takers .. UMD and every college has tons of that stuff that’s not big enough to matter. UMD is lacrosse and geniuses (and Crabcakes).

Please find me 1 legit ranking where Maryland is not just higher ranked than UNC academically, but ranked within the same vicinity.

US News - UNC 20 spots better
Forbes - UNC 18 Spots better
WSJ - UNC 25 spots better (!)
Washington Monthly - UNC 41 Spots better (!!!)

The question shouldn’t be UNC vs Maryland, it should be which institution is better academically Maryland or FSU!

PS. Many big Tech billionaires were college dropouts, so the UMD education likely played 0 role in developing google.

[Bart]

Like I have said many times, there is no such thing as a bad academic school. I try to never compare and contrast schools based on who their alumni are. Every school has their distinguished graduates, whom have made their mark on our society.

College is as much if not more of how much a student puts into it as to the school itself.

[OuttaNowhereWregget]

The question shouldn’t be UNC vs Maryland, it should be which institution is better academically Maryland or FSU!

Nice one, LF