George Mason: ugliest campus ever?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous thread. Mason is far from the ugliest and why should anyone pick college based solely based on beauty anyway?

Most Virginia colleges have something that could be significantly improved. JMU has an Interstate and railroad track running through it. VCU has some great older re-purposed but a lack of open space and bad newer buildings. ODU is kind of nondescript. UVA kind of loses the thread as you move away from the Lawn. VT has good and bad. Pretty much anything that was put up on Virginia campuses from 1955-1980 was architecturally questionable. Why single out GMU?

Would’ve been better just to let this thread die. But since you did...VT and UVA are gorgeous. You’re nitpicking. Mason is blah.

Grow up. Mason is lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj5ZiJox-0. And my DD's dorm rooms looked like hotel rooms complete with enormous private bath w/ tub and kitchen. There are benefits to a campus with state-of-the-art buildings. GMU has five campuses, the most beautiful is the brand new one in Songdu, Korea. https://masonkorea.gmu.edu/

Does the Fairfax campus tour allow you to see one of these newer student dorms with the updated hotel-like design? It might sway some students to GMU if they see how comfortable the living conditions are.

Nope. We’ve been on 2 recent tours and only see outsode of residence halls.

We were shown the inside of a dorm, but perhaps that was accepted students day. The dorm that DD got which looked like a hotel was Tidewater. The next year she had a single in a quad in Piedmont. There is also a hotel that has been changed into dormitory housing which is very nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous thread. Mason is far from the ugliest and why should anyone pick college based solely based on beauty anyway?

Most Virginia colleges have something that could be significantly improved. JMU has an Interstate and railroad track running through it. VCU has some great older re-purposed but a lack of open space and bad newer buildings. ODU is kind of nondescript. UVA kind of loses the thread as you move away from the Lawn. VT has good and bad. Pretty much anything that was put up on Virginia campuses from 1955-1980 was architecturally questionable. Why single out GMU?

Would’ve been better just to let this thread die. But since you did...VT and UVA are gorgeous. You’re nitpicking. Mason is blah.

Grow up. Mason is lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj5ZiJox-0. And my DD's dorm rooms looked like hotel rooms complete with enormous private bath w/ tub and kitchen. There are benefits to a campus with state-of-the-art buildings. GMU has five campuses, the most beautiful is the brand new one in Songdu, Korea. https://masonkorea.gmu.edu/

Does the Fairfax campus tour allow you to see one of these newer student dorms with the updated hotel-like design? It might sway some students to GMU if they see how comfortable the living conditions are.

[b]Nope. We’ve been on 2 recent tours and only see outsode of residence halls.

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We were shown the inside of a dorm, but perhaps that was accepted students day. The dorm that DD got which looked like a hotel was Tidewater. The next year she had a single in a quad in Piedmont. There is also a hotel that has been changed into dormitory housing which is very nice.

Just checked - there are many dorm tour videos made by students on youtube, like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPjztj4W6EQ&list=PLF25i2gqkXWkASSPGwyyncSkraTlj1RKa&index=9

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

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GMU is ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:GMU is ugly. [/quo.




yet once Again, a slow Friday pizza delivery
night for UMD dorms

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it is strange how many of these inarticulate posts pop up on a Friday or Saturday evening presumably posted by kids that didn’t get into a particular school or by someone who is at the school’s rival .

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

Totally agree.

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Not a fan of the campus but a long way from the ugliest. Widener is my choice.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

Totally agree.

+1. A lot has changed with the publics in VA. Students who think they are auto. ins to GMU, JMU, Virginia Tech and others have been rudely surprised. I know of six families that used GMU as a safety and didn't get in -- and they really needed for financial reasons to get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

Totally agree.

+1. A lot has changed with the publics in VA. Students who think they are auto. ins to GMU, JMU, Virginia Tech and others have been rudely surprised. I know of six families that used GMU as a safety and didn't get in -- and they really needed for financial reasons to get in.

Easy fanboys. 1120 25th percentile SAT, 18% in top tenth of graduating class, 80 acceptance rate. Safety.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

Totally agree.

+1. A lot has changed with the publics in VA. Students who think they are auto. ins to GMU, JMU, Virginia Tech and others have been rudely surprised. I know of six families that used GMU as a safety and didn't get in -- and they really needed for financial reasons to get in.

Easy fanboys. 1120 25th percentile SAT, 18% in top tenth of graduating class, 80 acceptance rate. Safety.

Not a fanboy; a college counselor. You cannot compare the acceptance rate of public institutions to private selectivity numbers. Students in VA are self-directed and self-selected by public high school counselors whose job it is to route the high schoolers to the VA University where they have the best fit. You would know that if you were up to date in college admissions. That's why UVA and Virginia Tech have higher selectivity percentiles than privates but routinely have to reject students that privates with lower selectivity numbers take. A much better indicator is the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) statistics which has the incoming class of Mason last year (not accepted stats, which are higher) at a 3.93 GPA for top 25% median of class; 3.47 for Median and 3.47 for bottom 25th percentile of class. Top 75th percentile for ACT is a 30. Top 75th percentile for SAT is a 1300. Two young men in my DD's small private did not get into GMU this past year and their families were counting on it. Use Naviance, of course but allow for the fact that demand for in-state public is rising fast due to privates outpricing themselves for MC and UMC families. And use SCHEV for guidance. http://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh. Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter. Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too. No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of seasonal depression after that.

UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU. You could say the same about many colleges. Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.

Totally agree.

+1. A lot has changed with the publics in VA. Students who think they are auto. ins to GMU, JMU, Virginia Tech and others have been rudely surprised. I know of six families that used GMU as a safety and didn't get in -- and they really needed for financial reasons to get in.

Easy fanboys. 1120 25th percentile SAT, 18% in top tenth of graduating class, 80 acceptance rate. Safety.

Not a fanboy; a college counselor. You cannot compare the acceptance rate of public institutions to private selectivity numbers. Students in VA are self-directed and self-selected by public high school counselors whose job it is to route the high schoolers to the VA University where they have the best fit. You would know that if you were up to date in college admissions. That's why UVA and Virginia Tech have higher selectivity percentiles than privates but routinely have to reject students that privates with lower selectivity numbers take. A much better indicator is the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) statistics which has the incoming class of Mason last year (not accepted stats, which are higher) at a 3.93 GPA for top 25% median of class; 3.47 for Median and 3.47 for bottom 25th percentile of class. Top 75th percentile for ACT is a 30. Top 75th percentile for SAT is a 1300. Two young men in my DD's small private did not get into GMU this past year and their families were counting on it. Use Naviance, of course but allow for the fact that demand for in-state public is rising fast due to privates outpricing themselves for MC and UMC families. And use SCHEV for guidance. http://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Cherry pick whatever stats you like (and the dreaded data sample of two smacks of your desperation) but it 3.47 isn’t great and 1120 isn’t either. I used Masons own CDS, but thanks.

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Right. Best fit. Mediocre students. 3.47 with honors and AO’s is a B student. Great place for B students.

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Va Tech’s percent of grads in the top decile is 38%. No comparison. 17% is horrific.

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Anonymous wrote:For me Harvey Mudd is the winner, possibly because it’s adjacent to two gorgeous campuses, Scripps and Pomona.

Harvey Mudd is a great academic institution. Mason is not.