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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Seems foolish to go to gmu if you are local. Why not just do the community college program in VA where you can upgrade to a great school like UVA after 2 years? Save a fortune [/quote][/b]

Your approach works for some kids.  I know some who are doing it but they have to be willing to do all the driving from home, parking, and back and forth.  Those that have tried it say sometimes they come home, get involved in something with a friend, and say "oh hell" and don't return to NOVA for their second glass of the day - they eventually give up.  Also you have to take a particular set of classes in order to do the transfer after two years.  But if you are aggressive and can maintain the GPA that the VA University demands for transfer (and it varies from VA state university to state university) then that option is great.  My kid is not that type of kid.

So why Mason instead?  It's got a fabulous campus (lots of new buildings).  DC is in a dorm with a great group of kids.  The teachers come from all over - many are professionals from the Dulles Tech corridor and are outstanding.  DC is getting the campus experience and dorm life experience.  It's much more diverse than NOVA is - roommates include Muslims and other international students and AAs from the south.  RA is from California.  Everything DC needs is right there - food, classes, library, computer lab, washer/dryer = much more efficient than running back and forth from home.   Mason also has the premiere department in the U.S. next to Carneigie Melon for the particular major DC wants.  No driving back and forth.  Lots of on-campus support networks and clubs.  And we get all this for only $9,080 a year (plus cost of dorm room).  [/quote]

3.0 is the required GPA to transfer to any VA state school. And if they can't get a 3.0 at a community college then they shouldn't really be at college at all.

And yeah, GMU must be great compared to Carnegie Mellon...if your CS kid wants to work in the Dulles tech corridor all their life. Nobody outside of the DC metro region or state of Virginia has any name recognition when it comes to GMU. Same with JMU. UVA, W&M, Virginia Tech, on the other hand..nationally ranked and recognized across the country.[/quote]

Northern Va native here who went to a nationally recognized school (Notre Dame, I am only mentioning this so you see that I really have no horse in this race).   But you have got to be deluded, pp, if you think that JMU, VA Tech are nationally recognized, or that they are more nationally recognized than GMU is. THEY ARE NOT.  Nationally, you would all probably all be considered in the same bucket.  People have heard of UVA, of course, and, after that, maybe then W&M.  Beyond that, no.  My inlaws who live in Chicago have never heard of any of these schools.  And that is ok, there are lots of excellent regional schools, and I had not been familiar with SIL's law school ("Valpo" or "VU" to anyone local, Valparaiso University, as she has to explain to everyone else) before she went there.  But don't just go ripping on GMU from a mistakenly " advantaged" position as a pro-JMU or -Tech person.  That is pretty laughable.  [/quote]

Which PP are you talking to? I was the poster immediately before you and do you not understand wtf I said? I'll repeat: GMU and JMU are not nationally recognized. UVA, W&M (second oldest college in the nation, oldest continually operating law school), and Virginia Tech (ok stretching it but they are known in college football) are the only nationally recognized VA universities. [/quote]

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