IU or JMU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I crazy for feeling like I'd rather my see my kid at JMU that Indiana? He applied to IU as a rolling "safety" (and was deferred at first, but now in), without taking it that seriously, but now it looks like JMU and IU may be only options. He wants IU and I feel like it's just so random. We're OOS for both, and the $ just really doesn't matter. We'll pay for wherever he wants to go. Anybody with experience at either of these? Wants to go to law school, so humanities major of some kind most likely.

IU ops stupid
What do you not understand about Indiana if Trump wins better not be a minority of any kind even a tiny bit

[Anonymous]

I attended IU, the education was lacking in terms of overall work skills developed.
If you had attended another university of the same size that would likely be the same there as well. Depends greatly on major![/quote"

I have second this fact. I attended graduate classes at SPEA, I ended up not doing so hot. I worked 3 jobs and tried to go college - I ended up with a 2.995 and being forced out. Ouch! // I luckily moved across country at ended up a graduate program at Kansas State University (sure a bit smaller) which provided me with a strong suite of technical writing, public policy writing, grant writing, data analysis, and such. Instead of reading the Bowling Alone and talking about in a lecture hall for three hours, UNL has students look at data on how Bowling Alone affects them, compile the SDOH data, and then develop an action plan (that can be sent to policy holders) to remedy this issue. I am much more happier in the program designing, data coordination, and writing skills, I have gained from the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I crazy for feeling like I'd rather my see my kid at JMU that Indiana? He applied to IU as a rolling "safety" (and was deferred at first, but now in), without taking it that seriously, but now it looks like JMU and IU may be only options. He wants IU and I feel like it's just so random. We're OOS for both, and the $ just really doesn't matter. We'll pay for wherever he wants to go. Anybody with experience at either of these? Wants to go to law school, so humanities major of some kind most likely.

IU ops stupid
What do you not understand about Indiana if Trump wins better not be a minority of any kind even a tiny bit

DP. I'm a minority and NOT a Trump supporter at all and hope he loses. However, I think the opposite will be true. If Trump wins, you better not be in a democrat controlled city. The amount of organized violence based on some pretext would skyrocket and if you are not a 'preferred' minority, you better watch out. Go back and read up on what happened to Asians during the BLM riots when Trump was President. All those issues must have been magically resolved since Trump left office..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IU is completely a diff experience than JMU.

Not really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am I crazy for feeling like I'd rather my see my kid at JMU that Indiana? He applied to IU as a rolling "safety" (and was deferred at first, but now in), without taking it that seriously, but now it looks like JMU and IU may be only options. He wants IU and I feel like it's just so random. We're OOS for both, and the $ just really doesn't matter. We'll pay for wherever he wants to go. Anybody with experience at either of these? Wants to go to law school, so humanities major of some kind most likely.

IU ops stupid
What do you not understand about Indiana if Trump wins better not be a minority of any kind even a tiny bit

Go away, troll - and keep your LWNJ politics off the college board.

[Anonymous]

Nobody outside of the mid-Atlantic has heard of JMU.

[Anonymous]

This thread is so weird. IU is a flagship university. JMU is...not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the mid-Atlantic has heard of JMU.

Don't be bringing your facts in here like that!

[Anonymous]

Based on JMU’s football performance and relative acceptance rate and affordability from OOS, it is rising in popularity. It’s not like a SLAC or something no one’s ever heard of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Based on JMU’s football performance and relative acceptance rate and affordability from OOS, it is rising in popularity. It’s not like a SLAC or something no one’s ever heard of.

Don’t be bringing your facts in here like that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on JMU’s football performance and relative acceptance rate and affordability from OOS, it is rising in popularity. It’s not like a SLAC or something no one’s ever heard of.

Don’t be bringing your facts in here like that!

On a related note, the JMU football coach is leaving JMU to coach at IU and is taking a bunch of coaches and players.
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/indiana-football-james-madison-transfers-curt-cignetti-bloomington

[Anonymous]

JMU is being slow this year with their early action decision. In the past 3 years they have announced results by now (1/17). I’m betting we have another week or so before we even know if we have a choice between an IU and a JMU acceptance

[Anonymous]

JMU hands down

[Anonymous]

Btdt - kid picked IU honors direct admit Kelley school of business.
Cost difference was not excessive and not $100k
Bloomington did not vote for trump in the last election, and is quite a liberal town.
There are available medical services in town if needed
Kelley is very diverse, to the point some business fraternities are almost all Asian
No one goes to IU for great football but maybe they will be better, more a basketball school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is so weird. IU is a flagship university. JMU is...not.

Seriously. It's not even close between these two schools. This board talks about JMU like it's an emerging powerhouse, but according to its just-released CDS for this year, fewer than 30% of incoming freshmen were in the top QUARTER of their high school class, and the ACT median is 26. It's very unlikely you're getting into IU, even from in state, if you're outside the top quarter of your class and have a 26 ACT.