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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA is lovely on the lawn but once you get near the dorms, blegh.  Bland city.

Notre Dame (my alma mater) is also considered beautiful but not many have ever seen the mud swamps and lake-effect puddles at the end of winter.  Plus, I don't know what you think about 9 straight months of gray weather, but that's pretty darn ugly too.  No small amount of pretty buildings can sway you out of  seasonal depression after that.  
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UVA once you get over toward engineering, science buildings, Observatory Hill, hospital, athletic areas, North Grounds, etc. is really not any better than GMU.  You could say the same about many colleges.  Once you move out of Charlottesville to the West, it is a lovely area.

This thread was started by someone with an ax to grind.[/quote]

[b]Totally agree.[/b][/quote]

+1.  A lot has changed with the publics in VA.  Students who think they are auto. ins to GMU, JMU, Virginia Tech and others have been rudely surprised.  I know of six families that used GMU as a safety and didn't get in -- and they really needed for financial reasons to get in.[/quote]

[b]Easy fanboys. 1120 25th percentile SAT, 18% in top tenth of graduating class, 80 acceptance rate. Safety. [/quote][/b]

Not a fanboy; a college counselor.  You cannot compare the acceptance rate of public institutions to private selectivity numbers.  Students in VA are self-directed and self-selected by public high school counselors whose job it is to route the high schoolers to the VA University where they have the best fit.  You would know that if you were up to date in college admissions.  That's why UVA and Virginia Tech have higher selectivity percentiles than privates but routinely have to reject students that privates with lower selectivity numbers take.   A much better indicator is the  State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) statistics which has the incoming class of Mason last year (not accepted stats, which are higher) at a 3.93 GPA for top 25% median of class; 3.47 for Median and 3.47 for bottom 25th percentile of class.  Top 75th percentile for ACT is a 30.  Top 75th percentile for SAT is a 1300.   Two young men in my DD's small private did not get into GMU this past year and their families were counting on it.  Use Naviance, of course but allow for the fact that demand for in-state public is rising fast due to privates outpricing themselves for MC and UMC families.  And use SCHEV for guidance. http://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp[/quote]

Cherry pick whatever stats you like (and the dreaded data sample of two smacks of your desperation) but it 3.47 isn’t great and 1120 isn’t either. I used Masons own CDS, but thanks.[/quote]

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