George Mason: ugliest campus ever?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Well, duh. Harvey Mudd is a small private 63 year old institution with a $303M endowment and is a tech school. What does it have to do with a young public institution - now the largest research university - in Virginia? I thought elitist snobs who could afford $75K a year for the Harvey Mudd's of the world weren't p.c. on this discussion forum. Not everyone has that money. Not everyone (in fact very few) can get into Mudd.

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Why are so many bitter snobs on here trying to bring down a young, flourishing Virginia University? The average high school GPA of a Mason student is a 3.70, which is an A- average, not B. 75% of the students have a GPA over 3.50; 44% have GPAs over 3.75. And for $9,060 in tuition a year, I'd kill to have my child go there in-state. https://www.princetonreview.com/college/george-mason-university-1023322

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Anonymous wrote:Why are so many bitter snobs on here trying to bring down a young, flourishing Virginia University? The average high school GPA of a Mason student is a 3.70, which is an A- average, not B. 75% of the students have a GPA over 3.50; 44% have GPAs over 3.75. And for $9,060 in tuition a year, I'd kill to have my child go there in-state. https://www.princetonreview.com/college/george-mason-university-1023322

It really isn’t. Do you know how weighting works or is that just a snob thing?

I have an idea. You tell me a school that isn’t very good and I’ll call you a snob. Go ahead. Yeah, didn’t think so.

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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 anyone from Virginia actually choose the Korea campus?

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another ugly campus - Brandeis. yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:another ugly campus - Brandeis. yikes.

+1 Drexel, too.

[Anonymous]

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 anyone from Virginia actually choose the Korea campus?

They can, but it's mostly high-tech students from Korea who have to spend one year on the Fairfax campus. It's all about integrating business, technology and $$ on the Dulles corridor and I-270 companies. DS graduated in game design and Japanese from Mason and is employed by Zenimax, so can run game design programs in Japanese. Same with Korean. It's a huge market. From wikipedia:

Songdo, South Korea

Data Center, Library, Guest House, Student's Hall[l]
Opened in March 2014, the Songdo campus is in South Korea's Incheon Free Economic Zone, a 42,000-acre (66 sq mi) site designed for 850,000 people. It's 25 miles (40 km) from Seoul and a two-hour flight from China and Japan.

The Commonwealth of Virginia considers the Songdo campus legally no different than any other Mason campus, "... board of visitors shall have the same powers with respect to operation and governance of its branch campus in Korea as are vested in the board by the Code of Virginia with respect to George Mason University in Virginia ..."[75]

Mason Korea students will spend the sixth and seventh semesters (one year) on the Fairfax Campus, with all other course work to be completed in Songdo. George Mason University Korea offers seven undergraduate programs: Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Global Affairs, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Computer Game Design. Mason Korea also has two graduate programs: Systems Engineering and IB & ESOL.

Students from Mason Korea earn the same diploma as home campus students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:another ugly campus - Brandeis. yikes.

+1 Drexel, too.

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Also, Pitt.

[Anonymous]

You lost me on Pitt. I thought it was lovely.

[Anonymous]

Most of the SUNY campuses, Tennessee, NJIT, CUNY Hunter, Drexel, Illinois Chicago, Brandeis . . .

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Anonymous wrote:There are industrial plants and wires and towers all around the campus. What a bleh place to call home for 4 years.

Say what? Are you sure you mean George Mason? It’s in Fairfax County, just outside the City of Fairfax. It’s a suburban setting bordering residential neighborhoods and nicely designed commercial areas. There’s not an industrial area in sight.

Must be getting the the school mixed up with some other. GMU is beautiful and there is no industrial setting.

[Anonymous]

GMU is fine.

I thought VT didn't live up to the hype. It looks like Loudoun County University.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are industrial plants and wires and towers all around the campus. What a bleh place to call home for 4 years.

Say what? Are you sure you mean George Mason? It’s in Fairfax County, just outside the City of Fairfax. It’s a suburban setting bordering residential neighborhoods and nicely designed commercial areas. There’s not an industrial area in sight.

Must be getting the the school mixed up with some other. GMU is beautiful and there is no industrial setting.

They were confused. They were at the new, high tech Game Design and Cyber Security facility located out where - gasp - the cyber security jobs are located. GMU has five or six campuses. OUr DS spent a term as the VSGI (Virginia Serious Games Institute) out there, east of Manassas. It's a clean state of the art campus but new. So if you want cobbled stone streets and 200 year old trees you won't find it. You will however find state-of the art equipments and jobs across the street at a secret facility we are not supposed to identify in public.

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Hideous.

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What's "SEC?"