George mason is more selective than UMD and UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

"Computer" Department? You mean CS? If so there are many more esteemed universities for that. Probably hundreds.

Not 100s. GMU ranks 67 out of hundreds of Computer Science programs. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings/page+8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"A Bachelor's degree candidate in computer engineering can expect to earn $59,000 in their first year after graduating from GMU". Not bad. I'll take that. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/17/tracking-graduates-wages-virginia#sthah.g15dsX7l.dpbs.

Yes i am sure Comm college students can make lots of money if they work hard....Except you have to forever look down when someone asks " where did you go to college".

GMU isn't a community college, idiot.

Actually it offers AAs

What do you mean? Asociate of Arts degrees? It doesn't. DS will get a Bachelors' in Science. One-third of the kids on campus are getting their masters' or docctoral degrees. They don't offer a two year degree of any sort, if that's what you are thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Automatic admission to anyone with a Nova associates degree. Sounds real selective to me.

Not the OP, but you do know UVA offers the same, right? Both have minimum GPAs you have to reach, but it's the same automatic admission program.

This is correct. But it is not automatic. You must take certain courses at NoVA and reach a certain overall GPA plus get a certain grade in specified courses. It's a very good deal for a student set on UVA who can maintain the requisite grades.

The NOVA agreement with George Mason has a required GPA which must be met; it is not automatic. Please see: https://www.nvcc.edu/depts/academic/transfer/GAA/GeorgeMasonUniversity-PU-GAA-2013-12.pdf

lol "The minimum cumulative NOVA GPA required currently is 2.85 upon graduation effective spring 2014." So it's even LOWER than the 3.0 that it used to be!

To the PP who called VCU "renowned"... where are you from? Nobody calls VCU "renowned."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

"Computer" Department? You mean CS? If so there are many more esteemed universities for that. Probably hundreds.

Not 100s. GMU ranks 67 out of hundreds of Computer Science programs. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings/page+8

1) these are grad school rankings
2) MD is ranked 15

[Anonymous]

Both of my brothers completed an associates at Nova and used the guaranteed admission program. One had a GPA of 3.9 and went to UVA the other had a 4.0 and went to GMU.

My UVA brother struggled to find work for a few years after college and eventually decided to pursue law school at the only place he was accepted. He still couldn't find work after law school and ended up taking a job overseas.

My GMU brother was making $80k by graduation, and hit six figures by 26.

They both had the same major.

UVA may have the name, but they are limited by their location. GMU definitely has a leg up in career placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both of my brothers completed an associates at Nova and used the guaranteed admission program. One had a GPA of 3.9 and went to UVA the other had a 4.0 and went to GMU.

My UVA brother struggled to find work for a few years after college and eventually decided to pursue law school at the only place he was accepted. He still couldn't find work after law school and ended up taking a job overseas.

My GMU brother was making $80k by graduation, and hit six figures by 26.

They both had the same major.

UVA may have the name, but they are limited by their location. GMU definitely has a leg up in career placement.

You realize you can actually leave Charlottesville after you graduate right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It's amazing how many of you all are stuck in the 80s in regards to GMU, but mysteriously not in regards to other VA schools. Yes, back then it was pretty easy to get into GMU and they had a lot of commuters, but at the same time, anyone with As and Bs could get into UVA and the partying kids who didn't give a crap about grades flocked to VaTech.

Times have changed.

I was in high school in the 80's and I'm not sure about UVA, but I knew plenty of A/B students who did not get into Tech.

[Anonymous]

This entire thread is delightful and hysterical. Let's start out the next level --

"GMU is actually more selective than Yale and most of the GMU faculty turned down appointments at Oxford. My DC who had a weekend beer-a-thon habit by 17 and has a high school B-minus average in the general program is going to GMU because it's so much more rigorous than Chicago. Columbia University is selling all its off-campus real estate in Manhattan so that it can fund ditching its curriculum and adopting the "Mason Core." The real "next half-century" crisis at Harvard is, how can they keep up with GMU? Cravath's partners who SAY they went to UVA actually went to Mason but they're trying to keep all of the Mason excellence to themselves. Discuss, incorporating personal anecdotes."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Automatic admission to anyone with a Nova associates degree. Sounds real selective to me.

Not the OP, but you do know UVA offers the same, right? Both have minimum GPAs you have to reach, but it's the same automatic admission program.

This is correct. But it is not automatic. You must take certain courses at NoVA and reach a certain overall GPA plus get a certain grade in specified courses. It's a very good deal for a student set on UVA who can maintain the requisite grades.

The NOVA agreement with George Mason has a required GPA which must be met; it is not automatic. Please see: https://www.nvcc.edu/depts/academic/transfer/GAA/GeorgeMasonUniversity-PU-GAA-2013-12.pdf

lol "The minimum cumulative NOVA GPA required currently is 2.85 upon graduation effective spring 2014." So it's even LOWER than the 3.0 that it used to be!

To the PP who called VCU "renowned"... where are you from? Nobody calls VCU "renowned."

Mason requires only a 2.85. C-level grades transfer for full credit, which is unheard of elsewhere. Mason recalculates the GPA to count only the higher grade received in a repeated (such as, flunked) course. Complete joke.

[Anonymous]

I really think one of its main problems is the name. How many Americans know who George Mason was? I didn't until I moved here - unfortunately for him he refused to sign the Constitution.

Anyway, if it was renamed the University of Northern Virginia, or better yet, UVA/Northern Virginia, its name recognition and prestige would increase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread is delightful and hysterical. Let's start out the next level --

"GMU is actually more selective than Yale and most of the GMU faculty turned down appointments at Oxford. My DC who had a weekend beer-a-thon habit by 17 and has a high school B-minus average in the general program is going to GMU because it's so much more rigorous than Chicago. Columbia University is selling all its off-campus real estate in Manhattan so that it can fund ditching its curriculum and adopting the "Mason Core." The real "next half-century" crisis at Harvard is, how can they keep up with GMU? Cravath's partners who SAY they went to UVA actually went to Mason but they're trying to keep all of the Mason excellence to themselves. Discuss, incorporating personal anecdotes."

Why such bitterness? Why the need to bash the VA universities. For $9500 a year they do an outstanding job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread is delightful and hysterical. Let's start out the next level --

"GMU is actually more selective than Yale and most of the GMU faculty turned down appointments at Oxford. My DC who had a weekend beer-a-thon habit by 17 and has a high school B-minus average in the general program is going to GMU because it's so much more rigorous than Chicago. Columbia University is selling all its off-campus real estate in Manhattan so that it can fund ditching its curriculum and adopting the "Mason Core." The real "next half-century" crisis at Harvard is, how can they keep up with GMU? Cravath's partners who SAY they went to UVA actually went to Mason but they're trying to keep all of the Mason excellence to themselves. Discuss, incorporating personal anecdotes."

Why such bitterness? Why the need to bash the VA universities. For $9500 a year they do an outstanding job.

I agree. The Mason detractor is a complete ignoramus, as much as he would like to come across as a sophisticate. Pretty pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

This is actually quite true. Did you read the Washington Post piece about the GMU computer science graduate who went out to Silicon Valley to help with start-ups and is now back putting money into the Dulles Corridor companies. The Computer Science department heads and board meets quarterly with representatives of all the Dulles Tech. companies to compare notes about what the companies are seeking in the way of graduates and to seek grant money. A lot of Fed money is also going into Computer science, Robotics, Engineering and Serious Game Design.

GMU ranks behind VCU for computer science. By a lot. And VCU is at best average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This entire thread is delightful and hysterical. Let's start out the next level --

"GMU is actually more selective than Yale and most of the GMU faculty turned down appointments at Oxford. My DC who had a weekend beer-a-thon habit by 17 and has a high school B-minus average in the general program is going to GMU because it's so much more rigorous than Chicago. Columbia University is selling all its off-campus real estate in Manhattan so that it can fund ditching its curriculum and adopting the "Mason Core." The real "next half-century" crisis at Harvard is, how can they keep up with GMU? Cravath's partners who SAY they went to UVA actually went to Mason but they're trying to keep all of the Mason excellence to themselves. Discuss, incorporating personal anecdotes."

Why such bitterness? Why the need to bash the VA universities. For $9500 a year they do an outstanding job.

I agree. The Mason detractor is a complete ignoramus, as much as he would like to come across as a sophisticate. Pretty pathetic.

I like how the Mason Troll agrees with himself...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both of my brothers completed an associates at Nova and used the guaranteed admission program. One had a GPA of 3.9 and went to UVA the other had a 4.0 and went to GMU.

My UVA brother struggled to find work for a few years after college and eventually decided to pursue law school at the only place he was accepted. He still couldn't find work after law school and ended up taking a job overseas.

My GMU brother was making $80k by graduation, and hit six figures by 26.

They both had the same major.

UVA may have the name, but they are limited by their location. GMU definitely has a leg up in career placement.

Nice made up story. 4.0 student gets rejected by the several far better Va state schools and can only get into GMU....ya right.....