George Mason University Top Questions

Lots of foreigners and stuck up white kids

that we are all from around the area and all went to local high schools

The stereotypes that GMU holds is that GMU is a commuter school and that GMU has the most diverse student population.

We're super diverse.

The crowd is always hott!! even if the weather is cold!

Graduate crowd is normally well experinced in the industry so it helps in making the coursework fun.

they are from a different country, have parents who work in embassies and/or are diplomats; that they may have spent the majority of thier lives in a foriegn country

George Mason is considered the default school, along with NOVA, for most students who grew up in the nothern VA area.

GMU students are prudish, uppity. GMU is boring-nothing to do. Everyone always goes home on the weekends.

We are all commuters or international students.

That it isn't a real college because so many people are commuters that live in the surrounding areas.

That it is a commuter school :(

People think it's really easy to get in to GMU and that maybe the students aren't as smart as though going to Virginia Tech or another popular school.

Well everyone thinks of GMU as a commuter college for local kids who couldn't get into a real college.

I am not sure or any particular stereotypes of GMU students. However, I did hear a young man say my junior of high school that George Mason was the only high school of Virginia; basically implying that everyone went there and it was not somewhere he wanted to go to school.

Commuter school

extrememly diverse campus commuter school

Just regular college students

That they are all commuters from the local area in Northern Virginia. Another is that there is no campus social life.

-commuter school -Students are really diverse