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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the number of Nobel prizes it won - it's more than the rest of the State combined. It's a world class university for blue collar workers . [/quote]

GMU has won zero Nobel prizes. Buchanan won when he was at UVA and years later became GMU professor.  Smith received the award while he was at George Mason, but it was for work He had done at Arizona.  [/quote]

And the Mason hater; both were part of the faculty when they won at GMU.

VA Tech people cry for not keeping Buchanan and Arizona for Smith; If you were a student of either when they won the Nobel Prize it was at GMU.

And don't forget Supreme Court Justices becoming visiting professors at GMU Law - who cares about ideology? You land a clerk position then you are set for life. Do you get that at the slightly higher ranked Law Schools?

And a few Pulitzer Prize winners.  A number which is within reach of UVA and W&M. Please don't bring up Poe - that was before GMU was even an idea.

Cry some more that your elite wine drinking snooty school hasn't destroyed the beer drinking blue collar working school. You think it's still an "only commuter school" or something more?
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Ummm.  I think conflating law school and undergrad education is a mistake.  I also think the law school may attract far right judges since it changed its name. And that could be cool.  But you aren’t getting a clerkship with anyone but Thomas, and even then, you’d need to be strongly federalist society.  And there is a lot of extra backstory with the woman from GMU who clerked for him.  She made news for being ethically problematic (to put it mildly).  But there was more to the story. She lived with Thomas for a while, knew his wife, they mentored her, encourage her to attend law school. She was unusual circumstances. In general, GMU is not a SCOTUS clerkship pipeline. [/quote]

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