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[quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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