please explain? |
Ignore previous troll. I am in similar boat. Kid not interested in football but wants a big school. Comes from a very diverse highschool and prefers the same for college. High academic achiever but doesn’t like a competitive atmosphere. I went to Mich and an Ivy and would never recommend that experience for him. I was really impressed with the course selection and internship opportunities at GMU. A school doesn’t need to be competitive or a picture from a YA book to be good. |
Good friend has a son at GMU. The kid’s grandparents live two blocks from campus. My friend said on five occasions first semester freshman year he went to his son’s dorm room on a Saturday afternoon he said campus was a ghost town and he didn’t see another kid in his son’s dorm. Not in the common rooms. Not hanging out outside. It was abandoned. Maybe kids who live close go home on Saturdays. But it sounds like a depressing college experience. |
There’s so much to do in this area. Kids aren’t just sitting around the dorm or hanging out on campus. They go into DC, shopping at Tysons, to concerts, ballgames, etc. My DS is on campus but doesn’t come home every weekend although we live nearby. He takes the shuttle to go around town. |
I’ve gone to both recently to earn a second degree. NVCC online classes were superior to my regular classes at GMU. The online system to conduct business (e.g. register for classes) was also better. |
^ I took an online graduate level course at Georgetown that I would rate about 6/10 but doesn’t mean Georgetown is barely above average. PP example is a bad one. |
I have heard the same. |
Opposite happened to my kid. He took a NVCC summer course (as a rising senior in high school) in chemistry and pulled a terrible prof who just didnt give a d@mn. Meanwhile other child had chem at GMU. It was night and day. i still regret we didnt register the high school kid for the chem course (you apply as a non-degree student) at GMU. NVCC was a waste of time |
That’s actually not at all what I meant. Nice try. |
+1. My GMU kid was everywhere but the dorm on a sat afternoon. she particularly liked the jitney buses into Fairfax and meals at Fiest Watch. She also went into DC a lot |
The GMU political science courses and internships in DC is a plus |
^First Watch |
The question is, did NVCC have better a better class than Georgetown? If you claim yes, then we knw you are lying. We already know that your reasoning capabilities are non existent. |
It stopped being a commuter school in 2010 when it was reclassified as "primarily residential". All freshman are now required to live on campus unless they get waivers. My DD was in the dorms (and loved it) for all four years but was concerned she wouldn't get a particular LLC set-up (suites!) for junior and senior year but she did. Her roomates were from all over the US and several international |
Well, that's interesting considering GMU doesn't have an undergrad poli sci major at all. They do have some very interesting related majors (Gov't.& Int'l. Politics, Int'l Security and Law, Public Administration) and you can get a masters in poli sci there. Here are all the available poli sci classes at JMU. Quite extensive and nothing like high school: https://catalog.jmu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=51&poid=21714#DegreeAndMajorRequirements |