George Mason: ugliest campus ever?
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Anonymous
+2 If I don't care for a school for whatever reason, I don't start immature threads about them and proceed to insult them repeatedly. I just move on and/or ignore. Not sure what the PP's problem is, but it clearly has nothing to do with GMU and everything to do with him/herself. What a pathetic person. |
Anonymous
You just insulted someone. Lord you are an idiot. |
Anonymous
Meh. That "someone" was an a$$hole and deserving of an insult. |
Anonymous
-1 Skidmore and Brandeis are far above GMU in pretty much every single objective measure there is to evaluate colleges. Albany, not so much though. |
Anonymous
Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom. |
Anonymous
But GMU does required all freshman to live on campus unless they qualify for a waiver: "Mason requires all first-year students (first-semester Freshmen) to live on campus. All incoming transfer students and current Mason upperclassmen can live off campus without filling out an exemption. Students may be exempt from the requirement to live in the residence halls if: The student will reach the age of 20 prior to the first day of classes of their first term of enrollment The student is married The student has dependent family (children or parents) under the student’s care The student has Veteran status The student resides in the principal residence of a parent or legal guardian within the counties of Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William, and parts of Loudoun*. Students desiring this exemption must apply and provide parent or legal guardian endorsement. Medical and/or disability circumstances Financial hardship that would result from living on campus Cultural or religious considerations Unforeseen changes in a student’s circumstances For more information on how to apply for exemption, please visit the Mason Housing website" |
Anonymous
So 36% of students qualify for a waiver. |
Anonymous
| Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%? |
Anonymous
Because it’s a great school. |
Anonymous
Lol what? |
Anonymous
Sarcasm. |
Anonymous
I'm not that person, but they are. Duh. 
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Anonymous
Yikes. That’s atrocious. |
Anonymous
I dunno--I think lowish graduation rates can be a good thing. It tells you a school is not a diploma mill, not just handing out degrees for showing up (or sometimes showing up). GMU's rate is actually 69.2% for the most recent cohort (kids who started in 2012--they do it by 6 year rates) which is the average for VA schools. But it's the largest VA public and an R1 university. It has a large traditional entering freshman student cohorts--what is reflected in this data, but also even more transfer students, non-traditional age students and graduate students. GMU accepts a wide range of students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds --but it's also a rigorous, major research institution. If all those students were able to graduate I'd worry that it was rubber stamping degrees. There are many states that have public colleges that essentially do that--sometimes even the flagship. Christopher Newport strikes me as interesting here -it's devoted to undergraduates and much smaller in scale. Just 10 years earlier it used to have graduation rates lower than GMUs --58% (which is somewhat damning since it ONLY serves undergrads and a much smaller population ) but it has really been growing them over the years in this regard so it's latest number is 76%--not as high as the highest (Washington & Lee at 94%, UVA at 93%) but edging in on JMU and VT who are at 81%. An interesting number also is College of William & Mary at 88.6%. I wonder if it's telling of W&M of being significantly harder than UVA--they attract similarly qualified students but have a lower graduation rate. http://research.schev.edu/gradrates/grs10.asp |
Anonymous
Lol. If 36% of freshmen aren’t living on campus it’s not much of a requriement IMO |