Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 23:51     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GMU's acceptance rate is only 34.7% for No.VA students, and only 18% for OOS.

TABLE 3.2 University Admissions Summary, Degree-Seeking Students, Fall 2010
Applied Accepted Enrolled
Number Number % of Applied Number % of Accepted
First-Time Freshmen
Northern VA 5,619 3,442 61.3 1,195 34.7
Other VA 3,749 2,276 60.7 806 35.4
Out-of-State 7,860 3,182 40.5 602 18.9
Subtotal 17,228 8,900 51.7 2,603 29.2
Undergraduate Transfers
Northern VA 4,623 2,602 56.3 1,908 73.3
Other VA 940 476 50.6 269 56.5
Out-of-State 2,911 810 27.8 275 34.0
Subtotal 8,474 3,888 45.9 2,452 63.1


Poor dear you're confusing yield with acceptance again


This post says 61 percent of Nova students get in. You're conflating with yield. There are plenty of acceptees who choose to go to nova or some other school
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 23:49     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

Anonymous wrote:GMU's acceptance rate is only 34.7% for No.VA students, and only 18% for OOS.

TABLE 3.2 University Admissions Summary, Degree-Seeking Students, Fall 2010
Applied Accepted Enrolled
Number Number % of Applied Number % of Accepted
First-Time Freshmen
Northern VA 5,619 3,442 61.3 1,195 34.7
Other VA 3,749 2,276 60.7 806 35.4
Out-of-State 7,860 3,182 40.5 602 18.9
Subtotal 17,228 8,900 51.7 2,603 29.2
Undergraduate Transfers
Northern VA 4,623 2,602 56.3 1,908 73.3
Other VA 940 476 50.6 269 56.5
Out-of-State 2,911 810 27.8 275 34.0
Subtotal 8,474 3,888 45.9 2,452 63.1


Poor dear you're confusing yield with acceptance again
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 23:48     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GMU is more selective than UF


Fail.

UF = 44%
GMU = 65%

Source: US News Rankings 2014


Obviously some does not understand snark




Or Fact.


Or has a life.


Says the person posting here with me...thanks for playing the game...[
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 13:56     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

GMU's acceptance rate is only 34.7% for No.VA students, and only 18% for OOS.

TABLE 3.2 University Admissions Summary, Degree-Seeking Students, Fall 2010
Applied Accepted Enrolled
Number Number % of Applied Number % of Accepted
First-Time Freshmen
Northern VA 5,619 3,442 61.3 1,195 34.7
Other VA 3,749 2,276 60.7 806 35.4
Out-of-State 7,860 3,182 40.5 602 18.9
Subtotal 17,228 8,900 51.7 2,603 29.2
Undergraduate Transfers
Northern VA 4,623 2,602 56.3 1,908 73.3
Other VA 940 476 50.6 269 56.5
Out-of-State 2,911 810 27.8 275 34.0
Subtotal 8,474 3,888 45.9 2,452 63.1
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 12:35     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GMU is more selective than UF


Fail.

UF = 44%
GMU = 65%

Source: US News Rankings 2014


Obviously some does not understand snark


Or Fact.


Or has a life.


Says the person posting here with me...thanks for playing the game...
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 03:48     Subject: Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

George Mason's rankings from wiki (somewhat out of date - acceptance rate is only 37% for instate):

Rankings[edit]
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US News & World Report Undergraduate rankings include:

139 (Tier 1) – National Universities Rankings 2012[56]
1st – Up-and-coming National Universities 2012[57]
69th – Top Public National Universities 2011[58]
US News & World Report Graduate program rankings include:

24th - Public Policy Analysis 2012 [59]
28th - Industrial / Manufacturing / Systems Engineering 2013 [60]
40th – Law 2011 [61][62][full citation needed]
51st – Political Science 2011[63]
64th – History 2011[64]
45th – Public Affairs 2011[65]
66th – Education 2011[66][full citation needed]
59th – Part-time MBA 2011[67]
63rd – Computer Science 2011[68][full citation needed]
Other rankings:

6th for Top Colleges for Engineering Majors - ROI, by Affordable Colleges Online[69]
The university is ranked 58th in North America and 75th worldwide by the web-based Webometrics Ranking of World Universities[70]
4th most diverse university in the nation, by the Princeton Review in 2008.[71]
8th in the world political economy, 30th in public economics by econphd.net.[72]
As of 2008, the Southern Economic Journal ranks Mason economics as 3rd in Methodology and History of Economic Thought, 9th in General Economics and Teaching, 11th in Law and Economics, 25th in Public Economics and 25th in Microeconomics.[73]
The university was ranked #56 (#71 for out-of-state students) on Kiplinger's Personal Finance list, "Best Values in Public Colleges, 2013." [74]
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Anonymous
Post 12/30/2013 03:44     Subject: Re:Prestigious State Colleges/Universitites?

Anonymous wrote:I'm doing pretty well with my English and Women's Studies degree from a now 56k school.



In what? precisely?