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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats to those who got in!

It's a good school that unfortunately gets overlooked by many solely because it's too close to home.[/quote]

Exactly.  I’m sure other kids (from elsewhere) rule out universities that they live close to as well.  Kids from all over come to GMU, so it’s really just locals who pooh-pooh it due to proximity.[/quote]
I think it’s mainly because Mason is a commuters school. It has little to do with academics. Like for instance they have one of the best computer science programs in the nation and it is ranked in the top 50. It has a community college feel to it in the sense that most students go to school then head home. But you can compare the quality of education to a lot of top schools.[/quote]

I want my child to go to Mason and all my friends look at me crazy because she is a top student at a top FCPS HS. She wants to study CS. I think it's a great school and less expensive than UVA or VT with same job prospects. [/quote]

Agree that someone studying CS at GMU with good grades will do just as well in the job market as if they had gone to VT.  But why do you want your child to go to GMU instead of VT if your child would rather go there?  The difference in tuition and fees or a year between the two schools is less than $2K a year -- hardly a major difference.  Of course, if you pressured your kid to live at home while attending GMU, the difference could be much more.  [/quote]

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