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Anonymous wrote:"A Bachelor's degree candidate in computer engineering can expect to earn $59,000 in their first year after graduating from GMU". Not bad. I'll take that. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/17/tracking-graduates-wages-virginia#sthah.g15dsX7l.dpbs.

Yes but ITT grads make more than Amherst grads too. Doesn't make it prestigious.

Who's talking prestige?

If you can finish a program and get a good paying job and lead a happy productive life, who the hell cares about prestige???

Applause!

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Anonymous wrote:Somebody is way too obsessed with what some drone-like statistician at USNews says about colleges.

Plenty of great kids choose to go to GMU. It is very popular with immigrants whose parents want them close to home.

This whole thread was designed to bash GMU and I suspect almost all of the bashing is being done by the same insecure poster.

We suspect someone doth protest too much.

No, I think a troll started it to bash GMU - probably because they didn't get in. But what is troubling is that those who are old and decrepit pile on claiming GMU is just a commuter school. It isn't anymore and hasn't been for some time. How can 33,000 students commute?

Anonymous wrote:GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

This is actually quite true. Did you read the Washington Post piece about the GMU computer science graduate who went out to Silicon Valley to help with start-ups and is now back putting money into the Dulles Corridor companies. The Computer Science department heads and board meets quarterly with representatives of all the Dulles Tech. companies to compare notes about what the companies are seeking in the way of graduates and to seek grant money. A lot of Fed money is also going into Computer science, Robotics, Engineering and Serious Game Design.

To 8:06, GMU dad here, I don't understand the GMU bashing either. Granted, I had never visited it until we did the college tour, but least I didn't carry around this bigoted view of it as a commuter school and, frankly, the whole family was blown away by what it offered. I wish those who have never been on campus or not au courante with what is happening there would just stop with the commuter college business. They are just showing their ignorance. It is true that over 75% of the freshman on campus are in dorms and more are clamoring to get in. GMU has been building for the last 13 years to meet demand (which some of the alums decry because the drills start up at 7:00 a.m.). Triples have had to be turned into quads to satisfy dorm demands. And everyone on DS's floor is from overseas or out of state with the exception of two very nice young men from further south in the State. DS is coming on finishing his first year. We could not be more pleased - and it was NOT easy to get into from NoVA. Many of his McLean friends did not get in.

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Anonymous wrote:"College shaming". I like it. Yes, I don't understand why some people keep coming on here and calling it a commuter school. If they would just either READ (www.gmu.edu) or visit they would know those days are long over. GMU has the most diverse student body of any college or university in the USA. Those aren't moms driving over from Fairfax. They are international students.

For the love of god, stop with the Hyperbole. GMU is fine, but it hardly rates middle of the pack by even Virginia Standards.

You obviously don't know they had an admissions director solely in charge of all the international admissions? When was the last time you were on campus?

Anonymous wrote:GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

"Computer" Department? You mean CS? If so there are many more esteemed universities for that. Probably hundreds.

Anonymous wrote:Somebody is way too obsessed with what some drone-like statistician at USNews says about colleges.

Plenty of great kids choose to go to GMU. It is very popular with immigrants whose parents want them close to home.

This whole thread was designed to bash GMU and I suspect almost all of the bashing is being done by the same insecure poster.

We suspect someone doth protest too much.

Somebody is way too obsessed with what some drone-like statistician at USNews says about colleges.

Plenty of great kids choose to go to GMU. It is very popular with immigrants whose parents want them close to home.

This whole thread was designed to bash GMU and I suspect almost all of the bashing is being done by the same insecure poster.

GMU has a top notch computer department and all of the major government contracting companies support and recruit from it.

If you are looking to get a reputable degree, save money and not party it is an excellent option. Of course there is another body of students that are partying but it isn't the dominating culture.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. It's amazing how many of you all are stuck in the 80s in regards to GMU, but mysteriously not in regards to other VA schools. Yes, back then it was pretty easy to get into GMU and they had a lot of commuters, but at the same time, anyone with As and Bs could get into UVA and the partying kids who didn't give a crap about grades flocked to VaTech.

Times have changed.

Nonsense point. Times have changed. Now UVA is among the top schools in the nation. VT is a solid school. And GMU barely exists on anyone's radar, except for mediocre students.

Oh wait, times change but the relative position of the schools havent. Funny how that works.

Oh, give me a break. A ton of really good students go to GMU for a variety of reasons. Two posters in another thread recently stated their children opted for GMU over UVA. I think it was a money issue, but when it comes to college, money is a HUGE deciding factor. It's not always about "the best I could do" or "where the mediocre kids get in". Intelligent people know this, and so do those who really matter: employers. So who cares what an obviously miserable, unbalanced anonymous person thinks.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It's amazing how many of you all are stuck in the 80s in regards to GMU, but mysteriously not in regards to other VA schools. Yes, back then it was pretty easy to get into GMU and they had a lot of commuters, but at the same time, anyone with As and Bs could get into UVA and the partying kids who didn't give a crap about grades flocked to VaTech.

Times have changed.

Nonsense point. Times have changed. Now UVA is among the top schools in the nation. VT is a solid school. And GMU barely exists on anyone's radar, except for mediocre students.

Oh wait, times change but the relative position of the schools havent. Funny how that works.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"College shaming". I like it. Yes, I don't understand why some people keep coming on here and calling it a commuter school. If they would just either READ (www.gmu.edu) or visit they would know those days are long over. GMU has the most diverse student body of any college or university in the USA. Those aren't moms driving over from Fairfax. They are international students.

For the love of god, stop with the Hyperbole. GMU is fine, but it hardly rates middle of the pack by even Virginia Standards.

Not the PP, but actually, it does. It's a very strong presence among Virginia universities. If you disagree, so be it. But you'd be wrong.

Sorry but GMU is average. On par with ODU and VCU. Way below UvA and WM. possibly better than Radford or Longwood. possibly.

I'd say that rates as below average.

It certainly ranks below the 50th pecentile nationally according to USNews

VCU is far more renowned than GMU.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"College shaming". I like it. Yes, I don't understand why some people keep coming on here and calling it a commuter school. If they would just either READ (www.gmu.edu) or visit they would know those days are long over. GMU has the most diverse student body of any college or university in the USA. Those aren't moms driving over from Fairfax. They are international students.

For the love of god, stop with the Hyperbole. GMU is fine, but it hardly rates middle of the pack by even Virginia Standards.

Not the PP, but actually, it does. It's a very strong presence among Virginia universities. If you disagree, so be it. But you'd be wrong.

Sorry but GMU is average. On par with ODU and VCU. Way below UvA and WM. possibly better than Radford or Longwood. possibly.

I'd say that rates as below average.

It certainly ranks below the 50th pecentile nationally according to USNews

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Anonymous wrote:"A Bachelor's degree candidate in computer engineering can expect to earn $59,000 in their first year after graduating from GMU". Not bad. I'll take that. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/17/tracking-graduates-wages-virginia#sthah.g15dsX7l.dpbs.

Yes i am sure Comm college students can make lots of money if they work hard....Except you have to forever look down when someone asks " where did you go to college".

Who asks where you went to college?

Not one person asked where I went to college once I got my degree and entered the workforce. People wanted to know what kind of work I do, how long I've been with the company etc.

And what person who's earned a degree would look down when asked where they went to college? After grinding away for 4 years, you proudly proclaim you earned your degree at _____________.

I've heard of slut shaming, but college shaming?

I take it you were rejected by Mason and still haven't gotten over it.

Actually with an average SAT lower than my public HS's, I'd be surprised if anyone got rejected from GMU

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Anonymous wrote:"A Bachelor's degree candidate in computer engineering can expect to earn $59,000 in their first year after graduating from GMU". Not bad. I'll take that. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/17/tracking-graduates-wages-virginia#sthah.g15dsX7l.dpbs.

Yes i am sure Comm college students can make lots of money if they work hard....Except you have to forever look down when someone asks " where did you go to college".

GMU isn't a community college, idiot.

Actually it offers AAs