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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Computer Science is huge at GMU.  http://cs.gmu.edu/.   Serious Game Design as well.  You have to be accepted into the programs, however, because they are in such demand.  Game Design applicants must submit portfolios.  The departments meet monthly with the Dulles corridor hi-tech companies to work with them to handle contracts (some students are paid to work on them) and to assess need.  The average graduate in computer science makes more than the average UVA and William and Mary graduate (per President Cabrera).   The internaitonal student body is immense, as are out-of-state students.  Fourteen admissions counselors handle the international students alone.  35,000 students attend, 1/3 of which are Doct. or Masters' candidates.  12,750 live on campus and the construction there never ends.  Please go visit and read up on what's in your own backyard.  It's an astonishing institution that the state legislature has pumped millions into.  Facilities are new and state-of-the art.  The engineering schools are also well regarded.  And Mason just opened its North Korean campus last year.[/quote]

[b]I hope you mean south korea
http://masonkorea.gmu.edu/[/quote][/b]

Yup.  My bad. I just get irritated every time the ignorant come on and say it's a commuter school.  So I have the facts memorized and just spit them out fast.  It's a great opportunity for Virginia kids and surprisingly difficult to get into from the NoVA high schools.  [/quote]

[b]Difficult compared to which schools? Isn't the acceptance rate like 65 per cent?[/quote][/b]

GMU.  And the acceptance rate dropped significantly this year.  I'll get the figures and post back tomorrow (have to go to bed now).  The point is that the old 65 percent includes all of the State of VA, the Internationals, geographic diversity, the usual.  The competition to get in from Langley and McLean high school is very competitive.  GMU can give only so many slots to the many excellent students in the NoVA region so your scores and GPA and package must stand out.  The students on my DS's hall first year included a RA from Hawaii, seventeen international students, two from Las Vegas, many Virginians from the southern most part of the state.  He was one of the few Langley kids.
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