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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VT is my personal favorite.  Best combination of academics and college experience, but obviously better if your child leans more towards the math and sciences.

That aside, my two cents:

VCU - decent school.  good marketing program.  urban campus in a fun part of Richmond.  basketball program has been really good, so maybe people outside of Virginia have heard of it, but still not going to look good on your resume if you end up outside of Virginia.

ODU - exact same thing as above, but replace a "fun part of Richmond" with "near a shitty part of Norfolk".

[b]GMU - much better academics than VCU or ODC, but lame commuter school with no college experience.[i][/b]

CNU - never heard of it.

UMW - surprisingly good school, but nobody knows that so what good does it do?  i.e., I was interviewing a MW kid and everyone assumed he was an idiot because of his undergrad choice.[/quote]

VCU is one of the best Art schools in the US.[/quote]

You must be ancient . Carnegie  designated GMU as a Tier 1 Research Institution snd Residential college decades ago. [b]All freshmen must live on campus.[/b] You aren’t even aware of the five campuses or the. Cybersecurity major are you? Hottest major in the US. Also there’s Mason Korea. Computer Science, game design and engineering are also bog. GMU is also the most diverse institution of higher learning in Virginia so you sound pretty racist[/quote]

Incoming students who "have close residency to campus (defined as Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William and Loudon counties) with a a parent or legal guardian" are granted exemptions so no, there are lots of freshmen who commute and don't live on campus. [/quote]

6200 GMU students live on campus and 75% of all freshman do. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/gmu-3749#:~:text=The%20main%20campus%20houses%20more,one%20of%20the%20residence%20halls.  [/quote]

Yes, but there's a big difference between ALL freshmen living on campus and 75% of freshmen living on campus, to the tune of more than 900 freshmen.  And those exemptions are granted liberally.  [/quote]

I'm a different poster who provided those facts--I wasn't arguing, just providing numbers. 
Personally I think 75% of freshman is a pretty sizeable amount regardless of how many liberal exemptions that includes, and not typical of a purely "commuter college."  And also 6200 students is a lot of people on campus, even if it's a relatively small percentage of the student body.  Makes it more like a hybrid of different kinds of schools.  I personally can't think of another school that's like it --R1, in a dense suburban location, largest school in the state, with 6000+ living on campus yet also a ton of commuters, serving some highly regarded PhD and other programs yet having a robust transfer and non-traditional undergraduate population too.  
It's definitely a "weird" school in the higher ed landscape--and it's changed dramatically in the past 10 or so years and will likely change further in the next 10.  Conversely, I recently went back to my New England SLAC for a college visit with my HS kid and found it had hardly changed at all.  [/quote]

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