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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh many parents think their kids won't have the "full college experience" at a commuter school.[/quote]

I know you are an old lawyer sitting in a law library but you must get out more and learn about the world around you. GMU hasn't been a commuter college since 2010 when Carnegie reclassified it as "primarily residential" - freshmen are required to live on campus unless they get a waiver. Please go and visit before making such ignorant comments again, eh?[/quote]

“At this school, 22% of the students live in college-owned, -operated or -affiliated housing and 78% of students live off campus.”

Seems like you’re the ignoramus, eh?[/quote]

That 78% includes a large number of sophomores, juniors, and seniors who live in the many off-campus apartments around GMU.

The more telling number is % of FRESHMAN who live off-campus since they have to get a waiver. A PP posted that about a quarter of freshman live off-campus, which means around 75% are not commuters.[/quote]

Listen to yourself. You admit that [i]over three quarters of the school[/i] lives off campus but somehow because the remaining quarter of the school does not, in your mind that means it's not really a commuter school.  :roll:  It is not "telling" that most of the FRESHMEN live on campus. What is telling is that as soon as kids [i]can [/i]live off campus, they do live off campus.

It's a commuter school. Get over it. There is a place in the world for such schools. I went to one. I made plenty of friends in my classes even though we did not all live in a dorm together.[/quote]

DP You can't use the % living on campus to determine if it is a commuter school. My undergrad says less than 30% live on campus but that is because everyone moves to an apt or house a few blocks away after freshman year.  Most large public's show 25-30% living on campus for this reason. It is not that hard to understand.[/quote]

+1. More than 6,000 students live on campus in 40 dorms. My kid was one of them and stayed in the dorms her entire time at GMU. The institution stopped being a commuter school in 2010. The bulk of the commuting students are the grad students, who add enrichment to the courses and campus atmosphere.[/quote]

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