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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid there.

The issues are:

A) No football
B) Fairfax is too wealthy and snooty.  Anything that remotely indicates college town fun gets a big side eye from the community
C) No college town, dive bar fun area anywhere around (see B)
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D) Fairfax is a big urbanish wealthy suburb with no community spirit for the school,  none, nada, zip.  Unlike the small towns of Charlottesville,  Williamsburg,  etc where the college is the main hub of the town.

The campus is nice, the programs are very good, there are so many opportunities based on proximity to DC.  The dorms are nice and campus is full.

The main issues are no football and no support/spirit from Fairfax.[/quote]
To me GMU is the scrappy guy who works their way up the food chain.   Solid education but not as much of the typical college experience.

Academically, I think it's better than JMU.[/quote]

I agree that academically GMU is better than JMU.

GMU lacks the college football fun and community college town support, so it will always be less desirable to a significant portion of kids, until those 2 things change.
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