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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a commuter school with an ugly campus.

UVA is a thing of beauty created by a founding father.[/quote]

Didn't take long for the dopey UVA booster to show up.  [/quote]

Less cringe than someone trying to hype GMU. Nothing wrong with GMU at all but the premise of this thread is absurd. It's a large, suburban public university with a history of being a commuter school. It has some great academics in some departments, sure, and some good professional schools. But it lacks the trappings of traditional university life -- no football, campus life is affected by the commuter school aspect, the Greek system just isn't quite as integral as in other places (which I realize is a plus for many, but it's definitely less traditional) and the suburban location itself just isn't appealing to many, especially those in the DCUM readership that regard "going away" to school as part of the experience (even if "away" is only 100 miles down 29 to Charlottesville).

I say this as someone who got their master's degree at GMU and has taken other classes there. It really is a good school, but I'm under no illusion that it's on par experientially with the others OP is comparing it to. [/quote]

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