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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both JMU and VT are great schools with some overlapping strengths and some different strengths. JMU is decidedly more undergraduate focused -- almost all classes taught by full professors. At VT, you are far more likely to have a grad assistant teaching intro level classes. The first levels of calculus are taught in a "math emporium" at VT using an on-line program -- a converted department store with rows of computers where undergrad students work at their own pace through intro level math classes and there are some grad students available to help if needed. But why go to a college away from home to just study online in a warehouse? It is typical that people automatically think the schools with big grad departments are better -- they tend to have more money overall and be better known. However, these schools are not always optimal for undergraduate growth and attention. Go to JMU if you want more attention from professors and smaller classes, VT if you want exposure to robust S&T research and big name sports. JMU has many high performing students. My daughter had over a 4.0 in high school, a 31 on her ACT. She wanted to major in GIS (mapping technology) and minor in Spanish, so applied to both JMU and VT, because they both have great programs in that. She ended up choosing JMU due to the smaller classes, easier access to professors, focused freshman orientation, smaller overall size, and smaller classes -- not to mention less time on I-81. There is virtually no difference in the quality of undergrads between the two schools when you are looking outside of the engineering school at VT. The vast majority of their super high performing students are in the engineering and architecture schools. Their other colleges are on PAR with JMU students. And JMU's undergrad business school is more highly rated. So quit saying with absolute certainty that one school has better students than the other -- that's hogwash. You can find great students at both, as well as students who were accepted at both and chose one over the other for a variety of reasons. Not every single student at every school more highly rated by US News (a very flawed rating system IMHO) is automatically better than every student at a lesser ranked school. All schools have strong and less strong departments, pluses and minuses, and some good and bad students.[/quote] Great post and very true![/quote]
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