George Mason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to like GMU and I think it's great for career purposes, BUT the people I know who have gone or do go there, they go home every weekend. Even if they have to live there during the week, it is not a typical college experience on the weekends. The kids I know go home because everyone else does, not because they want to, but they'd rather not sit alone in their dorm room all weekend.

Stayed a summer there and had parties in my dorm. Had boys including models hang/take me out to the local shops on weekends. Went to different international events and concerts on the weekends and bbqs every week. Did you even check the Eagle Bank Arena schedule? When the summer semester ended, I would purposely drive to Fairfax just to eat the amazing food at the Globe (professional hotel steam oven). It really depends on your kids personality.

Not having a typical college experience (thousands aren't typical?) can be a very good thing-UVa's Alpha Phi sorority sent my name to a collection agency, not for a single/late payment, but for dare trying to quit. I met my husband (also did his undergrad at UVa) at a Mason social event when we were both working in the area. If your kid is real snooty though/anti-international/anti-minority/desperate only for a date/etc, he will struggle. There was one girl I met at GMU who posted she wanted to go out and when I offered, she shut me down saying she wanted to meet boys. I knew lots of single boys in the hall to introduce, but she shut me out before I got the chance.

Are you a woman or a man? Gay or straight? Such a confusing post that has little to do with whether GMU is a worthwhile school, which by the way, it’s fiiiiine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

Accurate. My DH's nephew who spent the ages of 18-30-something unemployed and living off of his aging mother (and possibly marijuana sales) now has a job in "cyber security." He may have taken a few classes at NOVA, but he definitely doesn't have an Associate's degree, and never spent a day at a 4-yr college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

Inaccurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

Accurate. My DH's nephew who spent the ages of 18-30-something unemployed and living off of his aging mother (and possibly marijuana sales) now has a job in "cyber security." He may have taken a few classes at NOVA, but he definitely doesn't have an Associate's degree, and never spent a day at a 4-yr college.

True CyberSecurity grads (4 years) from GMU can call their own shots before graduation. https://cec.gmu.edu/strengths/cybersecurity. It can't be compared to someone who has a few classes in at Nova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

You must be very old if you think this. GMu stopped being a commuter school in 2010 when the Carnegie Foundation reclassified it as a primarily residential college. https://collegeexplorations.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-virginia-universities-drop.html. Today, all freshman are required to live on campus unless they get a waiver. Our DS (SN) spent five very happy years in the dorms surrounded by international students and students from the west coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

Inaccurate.

Not.

GMU - https://careers.gmu.edu/about-ucs/data-outcomes - Median salary $72K; i.e. Half the students make more than 72K and the top 25% likely make more than 100K. Guess where cybersecurity grads land?

Williams - https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/a80ebd2d-f1bf-4a18-8ce9-45a37c861d4b/page/p_46mwzp2kuc?s=sVbAr0tvmQc
Median - $75K.

We don't have the salary distribution here by percentile, but it's safe to assume that the cybersecurity grads out of GMU are in the top 10% of GMU grads in terms or salary and, yes, they do make more money than "the vast vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

True I'd imagine they can make as much as a plumber!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

I think you are seriously underestimating the knowledge and skill necessary to make sure that the "plumbing job" done on a human goes safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

I think you are seriously underestimating the knowledge and skill necessary to make sure that the "plumbing job" done on a human goes safely.

Of course! Hence the salary differential between a doctor/surgeon and a plumber. Take it up a level.. The medical profession IS a trade, much like plumbing or, in the argument being made here, cybersecurity. More valuable, yes, but still a trade.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the poster above. DS went there. It has exploded. The legislature is pouring money into it (and some of the other VA campuses to provide for VA students since UVA and W&M can't expand further).

Downside? The nonstop construction! DS lived in the dorms for five years (special needs). It's not fun when a crane is tearing down a building outside your dorm.

The upside? state-of-the art facilities. Unlike the hideous post-war GI bill dorm that my kids at UVA got (since demolished), DS's dorms looked like hotel rooms. And food was better than UVA.

First, read the wikipedia on GMU. Don't listen to the old people here who still deride it as a commuter school. It was reclassified as a residential college decades ago. You are required to live on campus unless you apply for a waiter and receive it. Dorms are in demand because of the high cost of renting an apartment and maintaining a car near the campus. We were concerned when it looked like DS couldn't get into the dorm the last year due to demand.

Bear in mind it has some 38,000 students, many of which are grad students, which makes for great diversity. There are four campuses in Fairfax County and one gorgeous newish facility in Seoul Korea. It is, in fact, the most diverse campus in Virginia. There are also more mature students there and ex-military. A lot of Nova and Maryland residents are there getting their masters' or doctorates.

If your child can, get in do the Honors program. It gets you perks like pre-registration and group dorms. I know someone who recently graduated with a 3.85 and got a paralegal job and is studying for the LSAT. Since the law school admissions game is all GPA and test scores now he is going to do very well in admissions. He enjoyed the honors program.

Big growth majors are Econ, engineering, computer science and the only Serious Game Design major in Virginia. The Virginia Institute for Game Design is located at the Manassas campus. A bus connects all the campuses.

The huge exciting new major is cybersecurity. I am told those kids can write their own tickets out of GMU and immediately jump to even better paying jobs. My own DS was employed in his field before graduating and is still there.

I've taken courses there during the summers and loved it. You can find parking during the summer and I liked sitting by the pond.

Downsides: the growth - the right-hand doesn't seem to know what the left-hand is doing which sometimes is frustrating. DS has had paperwork battles just trying to get someone to do something they said they would.

The parking is bad. Don't take a car if you can avoid it.

The disability services office was not helpful. UVA's was better.

Go and tour before you judge.

It's still mostly a commuter school and cybersecurity is more of a trade than something someone studies in college.

I had a colonoscopy last week. The Gastro specialist (who also does surgeries) likely makes over $1M/year. Guess what, he had to stick a tube up my ass and watch it wiggle around and has likely does that for decades now. No different that what a plumber does. I'd gladly do his 'trade' for a million bucks. While Cybersecurity jobs won't pay as much, they certainly pay more than what the vast majority of non-trade professions (whatever they are) that kids study at 'top' schools including at your favorite LAC/SLAC.

I think you are seriously underestimating the knowledge and skill necessary to make sure that the "plumbing job" done on a human goes safely.

Of course! Hence the salary differential between a doctor/surgeon and a plumber. Take it up a level.. The medical profession IS a trade, much like plumbing or, in the argument being made here, cybersecurity. More valuable, yes, but still a trade.

PP here.

I don't disagree. I'm a lawyer, and it is basically a trade.