TJ grads to Mason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a TJ graduate go to GMU?

money? To be closer to home?

They just want their degree and want to stay near home. It does save money, if they don't have scholarship but at the end of the day, if you have a scholarship don't go to a mediocre college AKA NOVA 2.0

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone called GMU - NOVA.2.0... Mason is a mediocre college you just go there if you want degree and don't want anything else.

This is rude and immature. Not everyone has parents paying their way and not every kind of degree requires prestigious college name. Making smart financial decisions is much smarter than chasing prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In class of 2020, GMU was listed as one of the most popular 20 schools accepted by TJ students. My DD's roommate at GMU was from TJ. She was premed. She found the premed courses to be too difficult and switched to humanities late in her second year.

"Class of 2020 College Acceptance List
Through an annual survey of all seniors, 99 percent of TJHSST students in the class
of 2020 reported they would be attending a four-year college or university as their post
secondary plan intention.
The list of schools below reflects the most popular colleges or universities to where
TJHSST students in the Class of 2020 were accepted.
University of Virginia-Main Campus
William and Mary
George Mason University
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Maryland-College Park
Virginia Commonwealth University
Purdue University-Main Campus
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Carnegie Mellon University
New York University
Case Western Reserve University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
Cornell University
James Madison University

lol. I call troll. Not true at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone called GMU - NOVA.2.0... Mason is a mediocre college you just go there if you want degree and don't want anything else.

This is rude and immature. Not everyone has parents paying their way and not every kind of degree requires prestigious college name. Making smart financial decisions is much smarter than chasing prestige.

Fact is that GMU is not just about prestige but also about actual rigor and mentality. I was a TA in a freshmen CS class there a few years back and half of the students not only didn't know basic coding, but they were also prone to cheating, begging for solutions, not turning in work etc. Definitely not the environment for a TJ graduate.

[Anonymous]

Well, just so that you know - ton of cheating going on at TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a TJ graduate go to GMU?

money? To be closer to home?

+1

Less stress after 4 years of intensity, premed and want to more easily maintain a very high GPA (med schools care about GPA and MCATS---they don't care if you get a higher gpa at a "more challenging school")

[Anonymous]

My friends son went to GMU for CS. Graduated 6 years back and now earning $300k+ in this area. Owns two homes.

[Anonymous]

Plenty of bad apples at GMU CS. Have also heard of cheating - but mainly graduate students from India etc

For undergrad - its what you make of it. Do a CS in cyber, cloud etc and there are a ton of opportunities at places like LMT, CACI, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone called GMU - NOVA.2.0... Mason is a mediocre college you just go there if you want degree and don't want anything else.

This is rude and immature. Not everyone has parents paying their way and not every kind of degree requires prestigious college name. Making smart financial decisions is much smarter than chasing prestige.

Fact is that GMU is not just about prestige but also about actual rigor and mentality. I was a TA in a freshmen CS class there a few years back and half of the students not only didn't know basic coding, but they were also prone to cheating, begging for solutions, not turning in work etc. Definitely not the environment for a TJ graduate.

Oh wow this is eye opening!

Also, this is at least the FOURTH GMU thread this week. Someone is definitely trolling hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, just so that you know - ton of cheating going on at TJ.

All high schools deal with cheating, but it's not an area of focus because admins have more pressing problems to deal with (drugs, violence,...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In class of 2020, GMU was listed as one of the most popular 20 schools accepted by TJ students. My DD's roommate at GMU was from TJ. She was premed. She found the premed courses to be too difficult and switched to humanities late in her second year.

"Class of 2020 College Acceptance List
Through an annual survey of all seniors, 99 percent of TJHSST students in the class
of 2020 reported they would be attending a four-year college or university as their post
secondary plan intention.
The list of schools below reflects the most popular colleges or universities to where
TJHSST students in the Class of 2020 were accepted.
University of Virginia-Main Campus
William and Mary
George Mason University
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Maryland-College Park
Virginia Commonwealth University
Purdue University-Main Campus
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
Carnegie Mellon University
New York University
Case Western Reserve University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of California, San Diego
Cornell University
James Madison University

Is this a list of colleges to which they were accepted, or the destinations? Does anyone have the number from TJ attending GMU by year?

You have to go to school and ask or look online in TJ Today senior issue that gets published in June which has the seniors school destinations
2023 Seniors - 5 to GMU - https://issuu.com/tjtoday/docs/2023seniorissue (look at pages 18-19)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would a TJ graduate go to GMU?

Many TJ grads, especially those admitted under the old system, struggle with the more rigorous programming. They could only pass as gifted because of years of outside enrichment and test prep.

[Anonymous]

Would the mason troll just stop?

She must have run out of trolling topics for Wisconsin.

I wish the forum owner would block that person's IP address.

[Anonymous]

Oh, maybe THIS is why the TJ kids in the engineering program had to keep bringing up the fact that they were TJ kids...repeatedly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a TJ graduate go to GMU?

Many TJ grads, especially those admitted under the old system, struggle with the more rigorous programming. They could only pass as gifted because of years of outside enrichment and test prep.

+1. In each and every subject, at that.