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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't see how the dorm experience there can be that great-an ugly campus out in suburbia? It amazes me what people will pay for. [b]It is just like community college, only you are spending 10x as much with no guarantee of being able to transfer somewhere better. [/quote]
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It's nothing like community college.  Do some research, set foot on campus.  Most of the students there don't want to "transfer somewhere better".  They've found the right school for them.  [/quote]

The dorm experience is fine.  Identical to my SLAC, although we had girls' floors and boys' floors.  It's actually much better than my SLAC - no more running down the hall to go to the bathroom.  Most dorms are "suites" so you share a bathroom with one or two other people.   It is definitely no longer a community college.  75% of freshman live on campus.  More would do so if they had room.   Mason is converting its hotel into more dorm expensive due to need for dorms.  My wishy-washy SLAC is not $57,000 a year plus airfare.  Mason is $9,080 per term, and, yes, you can transfer to UVA or apply anywhere as a transfer student for that matter.  Do go and visit the campus.  We were blown away by what we saw on our tour - we had no idea this was going on in our own backyard.  Definitely DC's first pick and we did go EA or ED.

The other thing about Mason is that of the 33,000 students there, over 1/3 are doing doctoral or Master's work.  So you get exposed to the newest trends in your field.  Read up on the school, it's really amazing what is going on there:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University.  That's why it got the no. 1 rank for "up and coming universities".  And $9,080 for tuition.  Pretty good deal.[/quote]

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