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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to like GMU and I think it's great for career purposes, BUT the people I know who have gone or do go there, [b]they go home every weekend[/b]. Even if they have to live there during the week, it is not a typical college experience on the weekends.  The kids I know go home because everyone else does, not because they want to, but they'd rather not sit alone in their dorm room all weekend.[/quote]

Perhaps because you live locally so obviously you would know only the local DMV students who probably do go home every weekend.  My kid DMVdormed with international students, and Las Vegas students, Alaska, etc.  Many financially strapped families in the DMV area are thrilled with GMU because they can petition for a waiver of the first-year residence requirement.  I know a number of families who could not afford a four-year private university only because their kids lived at home while studying.  I know several whose parents could not afford a private and this is how they went through college.  It's also a common practice amongst asian american TJ families who are saving up for grad school - undergrad is just a stepping stone and it's all about GPA and performance in order to get onto the next level.  If you live locally, it's not surprising at all that you might see that.  But go and read on wikipedia or elsewhere the diversity of the student body.  They've got kids from 130 countries and all 50 states making it the most diverse campus in Virginia.  Those kids don't go home.  Google it. [/quote]

Undergrad population is [b]81 percent in state.  T[/b]hat's a lot of local students.[/quote]

But that's because it is a STATE SCHOOL chartered and financed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for Virginia's students.  UVA similarly has a 2/3 Virginian population. At 67%.  IF the universities tried to cut anymore, the outcry from Virginian parents will make the Commonwealth do what happened in the U.C. system, which is to cut the UC back to only 10$ OOS.  "Why am I paying all these taxes when my own kid can't get into a Californian school".  And, by the way, Virginia is a big, diverse state.  These aren't "Local students".  They come from very different backgrounds all over the state. It has diversity in terms of race; economic diversity (DD housed with a very poor roommate from the southern part of the state who taught DD how to shop at Goodwill); cultural differences; socioeconomic (compare the density and accomplishment and wealth of parents in NOVA to that in the western and southern parts of the state).  Virginia also has very white areas/very black areas, etc.  All those students come to Geoge Mason - along with students form 130 other countries and 50 other states.  That's why it is called the most diverse university in the commonwealth.  Look it up![/quote]

Hi SCHEV guy!  I knew you'd show up.

According to the latest SCHEV numbers, 81 percent of GMU students are in state.  Of them, 9842 GMU undergrads are from Fairfax County, 3782 are from Prince William, and 3813 are from Loudoun.  After that, no city or county in VA sends more than a couple hundred.

UVA, in contrast, is only 67 percent in state, and those in state students are much more spread out.  For every from Virginia Beach attending UVA, there are five students from Fairfax.  At GMU it's 27 to 1.  Virginia Beach and Prince William County are almost identical in population and send almost identical numbers to UVA:  572 and 571.  At GMU, students from Prince William outnumber students from GMU by nearly 7 to 1.

GMU's racially diverse student body is a reflection of the racial diversity of NOVA more generally.  Because at bottom GMU remains a NOVA-centric school.   [/quote]

Nevertheless, GMU remains the most innovative and diverse campus in Virginia. https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2021-09/mason-leads-virginia-innovation-and-diversity-engineering-numbers-climb-latest-us-news#:~:text=George%20Mason%20University%20is%20the,of%20providing%20access%20to%20excellence.[/quote]

GMU remains the most innovative and diverse commuter school in Virginia.[/quote]

That sounds like you are trying to make a backhanded insult or something. [/quote]

Ha ha.  I'm just saying that, yes, GMU has a lot to offer but its undergraduate enrollment is still largely local whether the boosters care to admit it or not. [/quote]

But it’s a real research university that’s easy to get into and has a jitney bus to DC. It seems like an extreme value stock of a school. 
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Sure it’s a value. But it’s not the “college experience” that a lot of 18 year olds want. Graduation rate of less than 70%. Typical of a commuter school.[/quote]

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