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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GMU's problem is that it is in the backyard of most NOVA kids and who wants that for college?  Kids should spread their wings.  Otherwise, a better option than some other publics.[/quote]

This.  UVA, VT, WM and even JMU (and depending on what your kid is studying VCU) are more attractive to a large cohort of high performing kids because they don’t want to live 2, or even 20, miles from Mom and Dad during college. And are blasé about being a metro ride away from DC, because they grew up with it.  There are two niches they fill that gets high performing NOVA kids in the door: those who are strong and STEM but miss admission to VT engineering/CS and those who have severe budget constraints/family obligations and for whom living at home is a financial or practical need.

I would like to see GMU do more with IR/politics, etc, given they do shuttle to the Vienna metro.  They could be appealing as an in state option for kids who want the proximity to DC for school year internships. I wish they had a formal program where kids from other VA state schools could live there (and avoid DC housing costs), intern, take a class, and transfer credit back to their VA state school.  If it was easy and they helped find DC internships, my kid might have considered that. I’m sure you can apply to be a visiting student, find your own internship from scratch or through your “base” school. But schools like American have formal programs for this and are much more seamless.

And I hate to say it about a state school but— they will rise in the rankings when they act like Pitt and actively recruit/ award merit to OOS kids for whom the location is a plus. [/quote]

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