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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to all the VCU commentators! Very helpful and you are much appreciated. Thanks in advance to any additional posters!

My PT went to VCU. She said it is a high crime area. I was like "you mean thefts and stuff?" She's like "no, drugs and murders." She wasn't kidding. My kid's college-parent-facebook group also speaks about VCU and CNU being schools where they are bad areas where living off campus would not be safe. So, VCU and CNU should be looked at carefully in person, not just virtual visits.

Stop with the hysteria please. It’s not a “high crime” area - it’s an urban campus, that’s all. Obviously street smarts are required. So much pearl clutching!

Anonymous wrote:Lol OP how the hell are we supposed to know where you’d be driving from? This site attracts a lot of folks who don’t live in the DMV, as well as folks who moved away because they think the DMV was so awful - yet they keep coming back here instead of moving on.

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Anonymous wrote:Dc goes to vcu. Kid is very low key, not a big party person, and has found vcu an easy place to be. Only thing noticed, is that it is extremely diverse, but not a lot of cross over between the groups, which was a little disappointing to my kid.

I went to grad school at vcu and lived in Richmond after that and would say the lack of crossover is true of vcu and Richmond overall. I think part of the issue within vcu is separation of schools. Non majors are limited in ability to participate in other schools/depts' classes, productions/ensembles, etc.

Again, I disagree based on my kid’s experience. In fact, you really have to work pretty hard to “stick with your own kind” in a school with no majority. I’d look inward and not outward if I were you. The school might not be the problem.

Excuse me? Why the personal slam? I'm just relaying my observations about the way the university is structured and how that affected crossover between programs (eg. music and theatre shared a building but had little crossover. Both sets of students would have benefitted from more exposure to the other). The lack of crossover in the city, I noticed in my side hustle as a cab driver. This was several years, so things could have changed. I had respect for your perspective until that last comment.

We must have a different understanding of “diversity” I guess. I wasn’t talking about diversity of majors and programs. I was talking about diversity of actual people.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, you speak with authority based on an experience you didn't have, and judge me based on an experience you didn't have (and based on a wayward inference of what I shared). Fine to share, but don't play the arbiter of all. Not cool.

I actually do know what I’m talking about and have a lot of experience with GmU. How else woujd I know about scholarships for pep band or Mason Korea?

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to all the VCU commentators! Very helpful and you are much appreciated. Thanks in advance to any additional posters!

My PT went to VCU. She said it is a high crime area. I was like "you mean thefts and stuff?" She's like "no, drugs and murders." She wasn't kidding. My kid's college-parent-facebook group also speaks about VCU and CNU being schools where they are bad areas where living off campus would not be safe. So, VCU and CNU should be looked at carefully in person, not just virtual visits.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to all the VCU commentators! Very helpful and you are much appreciated. Thanks in advance to any additional posters!

My PT went to VCU. She said it is a high crime area. I was like "you mean thefts and stuff?" She's like "no, drugs and murders." She wasn't kidding. My kid's college-parent-facebook group also speaks about VCU and CNU being schools where they are bad areas where living off campus would not be safe. So, VCU and CNU should be looked at carefully in person, not just virtual visits.

Anonymous wrote:Also, you speak with authority based on an experience you didn't have, and judge me based on an experience you didn't have (and based on a wayward inference of what I shared). Fine to share, but don't play the arbiter of all. Not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:Dc goes to vcu. Kid is very low key, not a big party person, and has found vcu an easy place to be. Only thing noticed, is that it is extremely diverse, but not a lot of cross over between the groups, which was a little disappointing to my kid.

I went to grad school at vcu and lived in Richmond after that and would say the lack of crossover is true of vcu and Richmond overall. I think part of the issue within vcu is separation of schools. Non majors are limited in ability to participate in other schools/depts' classes, productions/ensembles, etc.

Again, I disagree based on my kid’s experience. In fact, you really have to work pretty hard to “stick with your own kind” in a school with no majority. I’d look inward and not outward if I were you. The school might not be the problem.

Excuse me? Why the personal slam? I'm just relaying my observations about the way the university is structured and how that affected crossover between programs (eg. music and theatre shared a building but had little crossover. Both sets of students would have benefitted from more exposure to the other). The lack of crossover in the city, I noticed in my side hustle as a cab driver. This was several years, so things could have changed. I had respect for your perspective until that last comment.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to all the VCU commentators! Very helpful and you are much appreciated. Thanks in advance to any additional posters!

Anonymous wrote:Also, you speak with authority based on an experience you didn't have, and judge me based on an experience you didn't have (and based on a wayward inference of what I shared). Fine to share, but don't play the arbiter of all. Not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here: we're in the DMV. By "easy" I don't mean open admissions, but where a 3.2 GPA can get in.
The post about 1/2 the kids getting turned down from West Virginia is depressing. I was banking on that one.

Your 3.2 GPA will get you in and if your SAT breaks 1000 you'll get merit aid. Over half the students are out of state and over 80% are admitted.
https://admissions.wvu.edu/cost-and-aid/scholarship-chart#sod

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Anonymous wrote:How easy?

In VA, VCU or GMU
In MD, Towson or UMBC

But these aren't 'open admissions' level of easy, just not as competitive as some other state options.

True, but OP needs to know that the 75th percentile at GMU last fall had a 4.0 and a 30 ACT. It's not as easy to get in to as some on DCUM think. And it's the largest research university in the Commonwealth, so actually HUGE. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Yes, I didn't know how to interpret their question-- whether it was somewhere between medium and large, or just bigger than 8k. GMU has 27k undergraduates so a lot of its size comes from grad students. But, yes, it's very big.

Who is the poster who obsessed over the SCHEV 75th percentile all the time? That means that THREE QUARTERS of entering students have lower numbers.

Because if you are applying from Nova and not a URM or First Generation that’s where you need to aim. The rest is for legacies (yes GMU has them); And band stars (scholarships if willing to play in pep band); athletes, especially basketball; OOS and international for diversity; Korean students to encourage a flow of students to and from Mason Korea; first generation; URM; financially needy students and the brilliant kids going for the lucrative cybersecurity major.

Yes, I've heard this same tired refrain from you as well, the data says it's not true, and you have nothing to back up your opinion. The overwhelming majority of GMU in state undergrads are from NOVA, with almost 10,000 of them from Fairfax County alone. It's mathematically impossible for the typical NOVA student to be in the top 25 percent of enrolled GMU students stat wise given the percentage of the student body that is from the area.

Your argument might -- might -- work if you're talking about UVA, but not GMU.



Read and learn. https://research.schev.edu/iprofile/232186/George-Mason-University

I know about SCHEV. That link says nothing about the requirements for admission from NOVA. But it does confirm that that’s where most GMU students come from.

No dog in this fight, but this link may be relevant on the subject: https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

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Anonymous wrote:How easy?

In VA, VCU or GMU
In MD, Towson or UMBC

But these aren't 'open admissions' level of easy, just not as competitive as some other state options.

True, but OP needs to know that the 75th percentile at GMU last fall had a 4.0 and a 30 ACT. It's not as easy to get in to as some on DCUM think. And it's the largest research university in the Commonwealth, so actually HUGE. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

Yes, I didn't know how to interpret their question-- whether it was somewhere between medium and large, or just bigger than 8k. GMU has 27k undergraduates so a lot of its size comes from grad students. But, yes, it's very big.

Who is the poster who obsessed over the SCHEV 75th percentile all the time? That means that THREE QUARTERS of entering students have lower numbers.

Because if you are applying from Nova and not a URM or First Generation that’s where you need to aim. The rest is for legacies (yes GMU has them); And band stars (scholarships if willing to play in pep band); athletes, especially basketball; OOS and international for diversity; Korean students to encourage a flow of students to and from Mason Korea; first generation; URM; financially needy students and the brilliant kids going for the lucrative cybersecurity major.

Yes, I've heard this same tired refrain from you as well, the data says it's not true, and you have nothing to back up your opinion. The overwhelming majority of GMU in state undergrads are from NOVA, with almost 10,000 of them from Fairfax County alone. It's mathematically impossible for the typical NOVA student to be in the top 25 percent of enrolled GMU students stat wise given the percentage of the student body that is from the area.

Your argument might -- might -- work if you're talking about UVA, but not GMU.



Read and learn. https://research.schev.edu/iprofile/232186/George-Mason-University

I know about SCHEV. That link says nothing about the requirements for admission from NOVA. But it does confirm that that’s where most GMU students come from.