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was required to live independently off-campus, and incur many additional expenses.
The student interaction at Mason is unacceptable. I came here looking for the college experience that a real university should offer. What I found were pre-established regional high-school cliques, an over-representation of older, returning to college adults, and non-inclusive ethnic circles. It did not take two years to learn that none of the students want to talk to anyone around them. They walk around campus talking on their cell phones, go to class, then leave.
The level of assistance from the financial aid department was unacceptable as well. This department did little outside of recite and dispense my FAFSA results. My financial aid advisor, Tom Perdiou, was especially unhelpful. With regard to Virginia’s financial aid guidelines which cap a student’s loan amount, but do not consider the costs of living in Northern Virginia, his response was basically that of a waitress who shrugs her shoulders and says “This isn’t my station.”
In conclusion, Mason misrepresents itself as an “innovative,” non-traditional university. The reality is a commuter school with no university culture or sense of campus community. Its highly flaunted ethnic diversity amounts to nothing more than tribalism. Certainly there is a wide range of backgrounds and ethnicities at Mason, but those groups generally do not interact with each other.
If I could make this decision again, it would be not to attend George Mason University. To everyone I meet who is considering colleges, I will emphatically advise against going to Mason.
Housing is decent on campus. Plenty of construction going on but it will be some time before that has a major impact. Faculty Administration is trying to change the overall "image" of the school but I sense atleast 6-10 years before you will notice significant differences.
There is a complete lack of friendliness, spirit.....the list goes. UNLESS you go greek, live on campus or get into a sports team, I truly recommend not going here especially if you will be commuting. You could get hit by a bus and nobody would move their eyes, its that pathetic. You trip on the grounds of JMU and people are eager to help or open doors for you.
But if you like a school where you take classes, not interact, leave campus for work and dont want a different experience......haha...come here.
Overall, this is not a true 4 year college and it will be some time before that changes.
Bad: Cheesy guys hitting on you! The hidden cost of the university (Technology fees, parking decals, books, ect…) The computer labs are always full, the internet is down 40% of the time, there is never any parking. Fairfax is too over priced for college students (every student that I have ever met at GMU works; even the rich kids). If you live at home in the DC metro area, you should pay the $15,000 tuition fee at one of the private colleges listed below.
The Greek life is bad, the food is bad, student organizations are not widely accessible to all students because of bad marketing and segregation strategies, 50% of general education requirements are taught by adjunct professors, the other 50% either have10-year or their working on research projects.
The resources: are either good or bad; there are no in-betweens. For example, professors and staff are excellent or they are just terrible.
After you add in all of the hidden cost, tuition and cost of living at GMU, it would cost about he same to attend one of the private schools below. The colleges below will look better on your resume and makes you more marketable to graduate programs at other universities.
If you want the university experience in he DC metro area, I world highly recommend that you pick from the following schools (Georgetown, Mary Mount, George Washington, Catholic, American…). I transferred to Georgetown and then moved back home to MA to finish my undergraduate career at Smith college. I am currently at Yale working on my graduate degree.
Some say that a degree is a degree! If this were the case, would you rather get or degree from Harvard or George Mason, which one would you pick?
Best of luck in your academic pursuits,
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