Is JMU on the rise?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Endowment troll needs to go to a JMU party.

JMU is less endowed than Mr. Chow in The Hangover.

Bucknell's per student endowment is SIXTY TIMES what JMU's is.

If JMU has MOTUs/BSDs on The Street in its alumni network, why aren't they donating to the school? Hint: they don't.

You sound like a snob. Luckily snobs are not welcome at JMU. Sorry JMU is more fun than your school. Move on!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn. Endowment troll needs to go to a JMU party.

JMU is less endowed than Mr. Chow in The Hangover.

Bucknell's per student endowment is SIXTY TIMES what JMU's is.

If JMU has MOTUs/BSDs on The Street in its alumni network, why aren't they donating to the school? Hint: they don't.

You sound like a snob. Luckily snobs are not welcome at JMU. Sorry JMU is more fun than your school. Move on!

The president of JMU's top house probably wouldn't get a bid to a mid tier Bucknell fraternity.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

+3 It must be sad playing sports in an inferior league.

[Anonymous]

My child is accepted to JMU and VT for engineering. She felt overwhelmed at VT (size of the campus and engineering program).

At JMU, she felt welcome and heard lots of info on students' projects. JMU is definitely selling project based learning. Same at ODU engineering. JMU also explained it has engineering concentrations now because the assumption is they awarded general engineering degree. But it's a happy place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

The reason the Bucknell grad is in Boca is because he has a second home there like most Wall Street MOTUs/BSDs. The JMU grad has to beg his boss for time off for the bowl game and put the tickets and airfare on his Discover card.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

The reason the Bucknell grad is in Boca is because he has a second home there like most Wall Street MOTUs/BSDs. The JMU grad has to beg his boss for time off for the bowl game and put the tickets and airfare on his Discover card.

The Bucknell booster must feel threatened by JMU or he wouldn’t be on this thread desperately trying to stay ahead. Probably never imagined in the 90’s that JMU would come this far. Go Dukes!

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I had no idea there was such a long and rich rivalry between JMU and Bucknell!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea there was such a long and rich rivalry between JMU and Bucknell!

Only in the Bucknell Booster’s mind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

The reason the Bucknell grad is in Boca is because he has a second home there like most Wall Street MOTUs/BSDs. The JMU grad has to beg his boss for time off for the bowl game and put the tickets and airfare on his Discover card.

The Bucknell booster must feel threatened by JMU or he wouldn’t be on this thread desperately trying to stay ahead. Probably never imagined in the 90’s that JMU would come this far. Go Dukes!

JMU's acceptance rate was lower in the 90s than it is now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why people get so fussy over the idea that JMU may just be a solid school. There is actually room for one more good school…get over yourself

+1 It’s funny watching the Bucknell booster get triggered by JMU’s rise lol

+2. The only way a Bucknell grad is gonna see the Boca Raton bowl is driving by on the way to Bubbe’s house.

The reason the Bucknell grad is in Boca is because he has a second home there like most Wall Street MOTUs/BSDs. The JMU grad has to beg his boss for time off for the bowl game and put the tickets and airfare on his Discover card.

The Bucknell booster must feel threatened by JMU or he wouldn’t be on this thread desperately trying to stay ahead. Probably never imagined in the 90’s that JMU would come this far. Go Dukes!

JMU's acceptance rate was lower in the 90s than it is now.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Will JMU catch W&M in the rankings now that VT passed W&M?

As to post itself, the poster assumes this is permanent and then uses ranking as a plural. Tech is one spot higher in the USNWR ranking than William and Mary and methodologies will change again. Forbes has W&M significantly higher in its 2025 ranking. I can locate others where W&M is higher so the post is not correct but give Tech credit as a great school.

As to the question itself, maybe one day but not in your or my lifetime. W&M just received $150MM in donations to fund one degree program and the amount is greater than JMU's entire endowment, not to mention JMU is many times larger than W&M.

Yikes. Why is JMU's endowment so low? I have a person connection to JMU and I find this troubling........

Perhaps a different thread topic but endowments are driven by a small number of very large gifts. The PP mentioned the $150m Batten gifts to WM. That’s the Weather Channel founder family and the family net worth is probably $3 billion.

JMU as a historic women’s teachers college has not had graduates who founded companies or went to Wall Street or hedge funds. The two largest gifts in JMU history are a $5 million and a $6 million donation.

https://www.jmu.edu/news/2019/04/01-may-commencement-speaker.shtml
https://www.jmu.edu/news/2019/11/11-christina-tosi.shtml

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Anonymous wrote:I think JMU is very quickly becoming comparable to the VT type kid who doesn't want engineering. Same academics, vibe and culture on a smaller campus

+100 JMU business could be better very soon if not already. Let VT be the engineering school and JMU the B school.

No thanks. There are plenty of business schools around. I'd rather see JMU be more the education/poly sci/public policy/environmental studies/intelligence analysis school. GMU has the public policy market among VA state schools, which is great. But let's keep JMU more "other" focused than "me making money in business" focused.

JMU is a party school. Business is a good avenue for them.

Almost every school is a "party school."