Are Va.'s big colleges driving small ones out of business?
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Depressing. Basically saying W&M and UVA will be even harder to get into and proposed ideas include allowing more OOS students to apply. Nothing about addressing the dropping enrollment at the smaller, lower rated schools. |
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| No, big colleges are more popular than smaller ones. Prospective applicants prefer what big schools are offering. |
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| There are too many mediocre colleges & universities. I’d love to just have a few “mega-schools” with tens of thousands of students, like Canada does. |
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The assumption is that if kids can't get into the bigger schools, they will attend the smaller ones. I'm not sure that is valid. |
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The lost me at
"When selective schools such as Virginia Tech take more students, they reach into James Madison University's pool. That forces JMU to reach into the pockets of Radford, Longwood or Mary Washington" JMU is harder to get into than it's ever been. There are kids going to JMU who would have been at UVA 20 years ago |
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| They don't mention CNU at all that I saw. And what about ODU? |
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| The only expert quoted is Lonwood's president who seems upset that his school can't attract students. Probably because it's a mediocre school in the middle of nowhere. The article totally leaves out schools like VCU, ODU, and CNU all of which are doing fine. Even Mary Washington is doing ok. |
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It did mention VCU: "VCU is an outlier - it's the state's only large college that is shrinking. Its enrollment has slipped in each of the past four years." |
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Not really. It used to be harder in the past--now 72% of students don't submit test scores and they accepted 86% of students last year. |
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The selective smaller schools in Virginia W&M, University of Richmond, Washington & Lee are doing better than ever. |
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It did say ODU was growing. That was the only mention. And I don't think I even saw CNU.
I think Radford and Longwood both suffer from years of people calling them crappy schools. That said, the surrounding areas leave a lot to be desired. Too bad - I actually quite liked Radford when my daughter did a program there in summer 2021. They don't really talk much about Mary Washington, but they also showed that their numbers have declined quite a bit. Radford is the only one of those 3 my child is considering, but she preferred ODU. I honestly can't blame her. Norfolk/Virginia Beach area is more exciting and there is a football team. |
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They mention ODU. It's one of the schools that have been growing. |
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I can't read without paying for a subscription. Want to give a brief summary? |
Anonymous
Not true whatsoever. Go back to like 1989/90 and JMU's acceptance rate was around 38%. JMU's acceptance rate for freshmen starting Fall of 2022 was 75%. |