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Anonymous wrote:Commuter college.

most schools technically are commuter schools base don the % of people living off campus.

Not for first years tho. GMU only has 64% of first years living on campus, while many of the other VA state schools are in the 95%+ range

Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom.

I'm not that person, but they are. Duh.

Lol. If 36% of freshmen aren’t living on campus it’s not much of a requriement IMO

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Anonymous wrote:Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Yikes. That’s atrocious.

I dunno--I think lowish graduation rates can be a good thing. It tells you a school is not a diploma mill, not just handing out degrees for showing up (or sometimes showing up).
GMU's rate is actually 69.2% for the most recent cohort (kids who started in 2012--they do it by 6 year rates) which is the average for VA schools. But it's the largest VA public and an R1 university. It has a large traditional entering freshman student cohorts--what is reflected in this data, but also even more transfer students, non-traditional age students and graduate students. GMU accepts a wide range of students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds --but it's also a rigorous, major research institution. If all those students were able to graduate I'd worry that it was rubber stamping degrees. There are many states that have public colleges that essentially do that--sometimes even the flagship.

Christopher Newport strikes me as interesting here -it's devoted to undergraduates and much smaller in scale. Just 10 years earlier it used to have graduation rates lower than GMUs --58% (which is somewhat damning since it ONLY serves undergrads and a much smaller population ) but it has really been growing them over the years in this regard so it's latest number is 76%--not as high as the highest (Washington & Lee at 94%, UVA at 93%) but edging in on JMU and VT who are at 81%. An interesting number also is College of William & Mary at 88.6%. I wonder if it's telling of W&M of being significantly harder than UVA--they attract similarly qualified students but have a lower graduation rate.
http://research.schev.edu/gradrates/grs10.asp

Anonymous wrote:Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Yikes. That’s atrocious.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Commuter college.

most schools technically are commuter schools base don the % of people living off campus.

Not for first years tho. GMU only has 64% of first years living on campus, while many of the other VA state schools are in the 95%+ range

Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom.

I'm not that person, but they are. Duh.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Because it’s a great school.

Lol what?

Sarcasm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Because it’s a great school.

Lol what?

Anonymous wrote:Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Because it’s a great school.

Why is GMU’s graduation rate only 67%?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Commuter college.

most schools technically are commuter schools base don the % of people living off campus.

Not for first years tho. GMU only has 64% of first years living on campus, while many of the other VA state schools are in the 95%+ range

Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom.

But GMU does required all freshman to live on campus unless they qualify for a waiver:

"Mason requires all first-year students (first-semester Freshmen) to live on campus. All incoming transfer students and current Mason upperclassmen can live off campus without filling out an exemption.

Students may be exempt from the requirement to live in the residence halls if:

The student will reach the age of 20 prior to the first day of classes of their first term of enrollment
The student is married
The student has dependent family (children or parents) under the student’s care
The student has Veteran status
The student resides in the principal residence of a parent or legal guardian within the counties of Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William, and parts of Loudoun*. Students desiring this exemption must apply and provide parent or legal guardian endorsement.
Medical and/or disability circumstances
Financial hardship that would result from living on campus
Cultural or religious considerations
Unforeseen changes in a student’s circumstances
For more information on how to apply for exemption, please visit the Mason Housing website"

So 36% of students qualify for a waiver.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Commuter college.

most schools technically are commuter schools base don the % of people living off campus.

Not for first years tho. GMU only has 64% of first years living on campus, while many of the other VA state schools are in the 95%+ range

Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom.

But GMU does required all freshman to live on campus unless they qualify for a waiver:

"Mason requires all first-year students (first-semester Freshmen) to live on campus. All incoming transfer students and current Mason upperclassmen can live off campus without filling out an exemption.

Students may be exempt from the requirement to live in the residence halls if:

The student will reach the age of 20 prior to the first day of classes of their first term of enrollment
The student is married
The student has dependent family (children or parents) under the student’s care
The student has Veteran status
The student resides in the principal residence of a parent or legal guardian within the counties of Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William, and parts of Loudoun*. Students desiring this exemption must apply and provide parent or legal guardian endorsement.
Medical and/or disability circumstances
Financial hardship that would result from living on campus
Cultural or religious considerations
Unforeseen changes in a student’s circumstances
For more information on how to apply for exemption, please visit the Mason Housing website"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Commuter college.

most schools technically are commuter schools base don the % of people living off campus.

Not for first years tho. GMU only has 64% of first years living on campus, while many of the other VA state schools are in the 95%+ range

Enter GMU “ALL FRESHMEN ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE ON CAMPUS” mom.

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Anonymous wrote:I toured over 20 colleges with my dd. Masons campus is actually quite nice compared to many. Have you seen Skidmore? Brandeis? Albany?

Yeah but each of those schools are a tier above Mason academically

that's a hard NO.

+1

-1 Skidmore and Brandeis are far above GMU in pretty much every single objective measure there is to evaluate colleges. Albany, not so much though.

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Anonymous wrote:PP of the last four or so posts - just so you know, anyone reading this can see how utterly insecure you are. Wow!

+1

The mud-slinging on an ANONYMOUS website is hilarious. OP - did your student get rejected from GMU?

In our professional circles here in the DMV (law & engineering), GMU grads have done very well for themselves. This thread is satire.

+2
If I don't care for a school for whatever reason, I don't start immature threads about them and proceed to insult them repeatedly. I just move on and/or ignore. Not sure what the PP's problem is, but it clearly has nothing to do with GMU and everything to do with him/herself. What a pathetic person.

You just insulted someone. Lord you are an idiot.

Meh. That "someone" was an a$$hole and deserving of an insult.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP of the last four or so posts - just so you know, anyone reading this can see how utterly insecure you are. Wow!

+1

The mud-slinging on an ANONYMOUS website is hilarious. OP - did your student get rejected from GMU?

In our professional circles here in the DMV (law & engineering), GMU grads have done very well for themselves. This thread is satire.

+2
If I don't care for a school for whatever reason, I don't start immature threads about them and proceed to insult them repeatedly. I just move on and/or ignore. Not sure what the PP's problem is, but it clearly has nothing to do with GMU and everything to do with him/herself. What a pathetic person.

You just insulted someone. Lord you are an idiot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP of the last four or so posts - just so you know, anyone reading this can see how utterly insecure you are. Wow!

+1

The mud-slinging on an ANONYMOUS website is hilarious. OP - did your student get rejected from GMU?

In our professional circles here in the DMV (law & engineering), GMU grads have done very well for themselves. This thread is satire.

+2
If I don't care for a school for whatever reason, I don't start immature threads about them and proceed to insult them repeatedly. I just move on and/or ignore. Not sure what the PP's problem is, but it clearly has nothing to do with GMU and everything to do with him/herself. What a pathetic person.