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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]W&M's surrounding area is absolutely terrible - filled with elderly (white) retirees and (white) rural types. It's isolated, the closest signs of civilizations are Richmond and Virginia Beach - 45 minutes drive away. Location affects academics.

It is indeed very popular with older individuals for whom the school was very prestigious when they were young. The same really doesn't hold true any more.

GMU is in a major metropolitan, magnitudes more cosmopolitan and a 20 minutes drive to Washington DC.

GMU has a strong IT program (top 10 in the country), provides engineering & nursing degrees; W&M doesn't have any of these programs.

GMU was considered an extremely mediocre commuter school for a long time, so you will see older people always prefer anything other than it. That view does not really hold true today after the massive economic expansion in Northern Virginia.

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JFC, George Mason is near Fairfax City (a nothing burger “city”) and has one of the ugliest campuses there is.  It may be ok for a self-motivated type, sure. But overselling just is bizarre.[/quote]
How is the post overselling it? It's just stating facts.

That it's next to Fairfax City is not really relevant. It's in the DC-metro area and as I said, within 20 minutes drive to DC, 15 minutes drive to Arlington. Those are major pluses, given the student has a car. [/quote]

Yawn.  Well, just to begin, your paragraph 1 is not stating the facts.  You’re staying your opinion (“absolutely terrible”) and weirdly injecting race into the mix.  You seem to have an ax to grind.[/quote]
Your comment literally only referred to the facts that I stated about GMU. If you have disagreements on what I posted about W&M, perhaps you should post that instead. [/quote]

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