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[quote=Anonymous]Someone asked for comments about other campuses.  We toured GMU as a family for DD last spring and were, frankly, blown away, by what it offered her.  DD's interests are Japanese, computers, serious game design, civil engineering, and robotics.  We had tromped all over campuses that offered Japanese (Gettysburg, Dickinson, Drexell) but most didn't have much in the computer/game design field or robotics field.   My own college, Occidental, offered only the Japanese major.  My husband had done the research and said that GMU (only 23 minutes from our home) had everything she was looking for.  Well, we really were blown away.  The legislature is pumping a lot of money into the serious game design program (which ties into the Japanese interest) so much so that the game design head, Dr. Martin, recently established a joint venture project with a hi-tech game design operation in Scotland.  The students will be scooting back and forth.  Since the University is so young, most of the facilities are new.  The computer design building (3 stories) had my computer-crazed son salivating.  The engineering school has a robotics division.  Dorms were pleasant, new (6,000 students now dorm annually) and clean (unlike two schools we visited).    DD is thrilled - it has everything she wants - and it is in our own backyard and finally our property taxes will be put to good use.  We're going early decision.  If that doesn't work, then it's back to the research books.  Here's the current wikipedia blurb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University The law school has also exploded in prestige in the last decade, as you probably know.  And should DD's interest in game design wane, she can transfer within the system to another VA university.  Even thought we've lived in VA for 22 years, we really had no sense of what GMU offered.  Definitely an up and comer (I hope - pray for us!)[/quote]

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