UVA vs GMU

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't pick GMU over UVA for any subject.

+1.

This. GMU sucks.

Say the UVA grads, naturally.

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Anonymous wrote:NOONE cares where you went to college except those who went to the Ivies and like to throw it in your face.
Once you've been working for a few years, it's really all about your experience, your personality, your work ethic and how well you produce.

Not true in law. You are where you went to school, whether you are 25 or 105.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NOONE cares where you went to college except those who went to the Ivies and like to throw it in your face.
Once you've been working for a few years, it's really all about your experience, your personality, your work ethic and how well you produce.

*I* care where I went to undergrad/grad. Outside of academics, there are many aspects that shaped who I am today. Not to mention my lifelong friends. Alumni opportunities, networking, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NOONE cares where you went to college except those who went to the Ivies and like to throw it in your face.
Once you've been working for a few years, it's really all about your experience, your personality, your work ethic and how well you produce.

*I* care where I went to undergrad/grad. Outside of academics, there are many aspects that shaped who I am today. Not to mention my lifelong friends. Alumni opportunities, networking, etc.

Could you express your answer in detail please, how do you think other colleges would not have done the same thing to you.

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I make more than most uva grads ever will. I own my own business and wanted a master's degree but didn't want to put my business on hold. Gmu was a convenient way and a lot of self made millionaires get a degree to check that box after they are making it big.

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Anonymous wrote:I make more than most uva grads ever will. I own my own business and wanted a master's degree but didn't want to put my business on hold. Gmu was a convenient way and a lot of self made millionaires get a degree to check that box after they are making it big.

We are talking about college choice for kids graduating high school. Also if you are already a self made millionaire then who are you checking the box for?

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Still waiting to hear about the "7 figure recent grad"...

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to hear about the "7 figure recent grad"...

He works for Google.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/google-people-laszlo-bock/index.html?iid=Lead

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Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to hear about the "7 figure recent grad"...

He works for Google.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/google-people-laszlo-bock/index.html?iid=Lead

Sales?

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Anonymous wrote:I make more than most uva grads ever will. I own my own business and wanted a master's degree but didn't want to put my business on hold. Gmu was a convenient way and a lot of self made millionaires get a degree to check that box after they are making it big.

We are talking about college choice for kids graduating high school. Also if you are already a self made millionaire then who are you checking the box for?

I see this often at GMU, students who are getting a degree while already in their career.

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One GMU grad made a gazillion dollars in Silicon Valley, then came back to fund venture capital in the Dulles Corridor. The Wash. Post did a story on him. Believe is or not, GMU is no. 6 in the country for computer science and the employers know it. https://blog.profitbricks.com/top-computer-science-programs/. We have a child there now (living on campus with all the international students and out-of-staters - definitely NOT a commuter school except for the Master's and Ph.D. sutdents) and have been extraordinarily pleased with his instructors - many of whom come from the Dulles Tech Corridor and teach for the love of it. DC has a paid internship at the Serious Game Design Institute of Mason in Manassas this summer and second DD has a paid internship at Oracle. No other University is feeding the massive growth of Tysons and the Tech Corridor and Mason has done a brilliant job of coordinating the Dulles companies with Computer Science, Engineering (a huge department!) and Game Design to both service the needs of the companies as well as give their students paying work while still on campus. Go check out the names and companies on the Board of Trustees and the individual executive advisory boards of every department if you don't believe this. And, no, before someone says it, I'm not in marketing or PR for the university - that charge gets SO old.

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Anonymous wrote:One GMU grad made a gazillion dollars in Silicon Valley, then came back to fund venture capital in the Dulles Corridor. The Wash. Post did a story on him. Believe is or not, GMU is no. 6 in the country for computer science and the employers know it. https://blog.profitbricks.com/top-computer-science-programs/. We have a child there now (living on campus with all the international students and out-of-staters - definitely NOT a commuter school except for the Master's and Ph.D. sutdents) and have been extraordinarily pleased with his instructors - many of whom come from the Dulles Tech Corridor and teach for the love of it. DC has a paid internship at the Serious Game Design Institute of Mason in Manassas this summer and second DD has a paid internship at Oracle. No other University is feeding the massive growth of Tysons and the Tech Corridor and Mason has done a brilliant job of coordinating the Dulles companies with Computer Science, Engineering (a huge department!) and Game Design to both service the needs of the companies as well as give their students paying work while still on campus. Go check out the names and companies on the Board of Trustees and the individual executive advisory boards of every department if you don't believe this. And, no, before someone says it, I'm not in marketing or PR for the university - that charge gets SO old.

LOL. GMU sneaking in right before UPenn. On a blog. Thanks.

No doubt there are many happy students there. But please...

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I went to a Cal State School (Cal Poly) for undergrad in CS and went to GMU for my Master's. I can tell you without reservation that GMU was inferior in every way to Cal Poly. Not even close. I graduated with my Master's in 2004. Has it improved that much in 10 years? I was not impressed AT ALL when I went there.

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard GMU has a really strong Computer Science program.

My son is in it. Fantastic. And they are committed to working with local industry to help your kid get a job. Hope it remains a sleeper school!!

No worries about that. It's been sleeping since day one and will remain unknown outside of the Fairfax area.

Good - I'm glad for that. I guess though someone ought to tell all the international students and the out-of-state students.

Yes, indeed, did you know that international and OOS now comprise 50% of the classes at most VA universities? DS is at GMU (and for the moron calling it a commuter school, please tell me where the 35,000 parking places are located because I need one of them). DD who visited VA Tech Engineering today was told the next class will be 50% international and OSS and only 50% seats for virginians. There was an audible gasp in the room

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Anonymous wrote:Computer Science is huge at GMU. http://cs.gmu.edu/. Serious Game Design as well. You have to be accepted into the programs, however, because they are in such demand. Game Design applicants must submit portfolios. The departments meet monthly with the Dulles corridor hi-tech companies to work with them to handle contracts (some students are paid to work on them) and to assess need. The average graduate in computer science makes more than the average UVA and William and Mary graduate (per President Cabrera). The internaitonal student body is immense, as are out-of-state students. Fourteen admissions counselors handle the international students alone. 35,000 students attend, 1/3 of which are Doct. or Masters' candidates. 12,750 live on campus and the construction there never ends. Please go visit and read up on what's in your own backyard. It's an astonishing institution that the state legislature has pumped millions into. Facilities are new and state-of-the art. The engineering schools are also well regarded. And Mason just opened its North Korean campus last year.

Please remove your post, my kids will be applying there in a couple of years.

. Good luck by then. We got one into GMU and are aiming another at UVA and Va Tech, but if the OOS and International rates keep rising there may be so few Virginia seats left that you may not want to even bother applying.