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[quote=Anonymous]to 11:54.  Yes, you are right.  We have heard that it can get quiet but I don't know if that is still true.  There are 7,000 kids living on campus but that no. is  going up to 9,000 soon.  Wikipedia has a good piece about the ongoing building plans if you are interested.  A lot of thought has gone into the dorms, especially the upper classmen who get to live in "fully furnished" apartments with bathrooms that are professionally cleaned (please come to my house!).  I liked the layout for freshmen dorms.  Small, cinderblock and compact, as you would expect, but clean, with large windows and set out nicely as a village to give the kids a sense of community.  Lots of late night (4 a.m.!) bistros.   Incredible food services and gyms.  Multiple athletic centers and swimming pools.  I didn't know this when I posted last night, but at 32,000 students, GMU is the largest  state school in VA now.  While we heard it can get quiet on weekends, the entertainment facilities, the athletic centers, and theaters are in almost constant use for big-stage or star events so there is far more singers, dancers, concerts, and athletic stuff going on on a weekend than my college ever could offer.  We toured four or five times - there were posters up for every conceivable concert, ballet company, rock group you could imagine.  Some big even is always going on at the Patriot Center and the theatrical center.   Like everything in life, you would have to just plan ahead and take advantage of what is being offered.

To answer your question, I don't know how often she will want to come home.  She's very studious so won't care much for the party or greek scene.  We want her to have the dorm experience so are sending in the deposit now because the acceptance letter said GMU had its largest application pool every (yes, I know every school can say that now due to online applications) but first come get the best dorms and they won't guarantee a place in next fall's class if you don't send in your deposit by May lst.   There certainly will be lots of freshman to meet.  If she pulls a great roommate, terrific.  If not, she can always come home and study here.

We currently don't have the $$ for a third car so she will have to be there, or here.  I like control over my kids :-).

The wikipedia piece on the university says it is running shuttle busses to D.C. all the time for internships and trips.  Weekends too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University#Schools_and_colleges.   I drooled reading it last night - almost sounds like their PR department wrote the wikipedia piece.

Do you have a student there now?  Do they think it gets quiet on the weekend?  I suspect DD will find that comforting and less jarring if it does clear out and she can get to the library and computer center.  Thanks!

Another thought - not 100% sure on this because it isn't relevant to us now, but I think the transfer opportunities to other VA schools may be as generous at GMU as they are at NOVA.  In other words, if you maintain a certain GPA at NOVA in certain core subjects you can transfer to UVA in your jr. year, but I really haven't investigated that because DD wanted the computer game design college.  GMU may not want to make it easy to transfer to UVA.  But if true, that might make GMU very attractive to students who might not otherwise think of it.  I've got several parent friends who are doing the NOVA courses right now to get into UVA.[/quote]

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