JMU vs. Colby

[Anonymous]

This is a classic D1 at a fairly mediocre school vs D3 at a highly rated LAC. If finances are not an issue, there’s not much of a choice here - career options will be night and day. We had a similar choice and attending a NESCAC, playing sport has worked out very well for our DD.

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Anonymous wrote:Colby alum.
Give it serious consideration. It's an amazing place where all classes are taught by professors, not grad students.
Have you visited? The campus is amazing. The new athletic center is world-class. The new science buildings are fabulous. The new dorms/housing options - phenomenal.
Colby has poured huge money into the town of Waterville, and the town/gown effect has improved dramatically.
yes, Maine is cold in the winter. But it's also beautiful and the community there is wonderful.

What's the sport?

What is with this hyperbolic gushing over a tiny, remote school in the middle of nowhere? And again - “world class”? I mean, come on.

So sorry your kid didn't get in.

This school would never in a million years have been on my kid’s radar.

We know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a classic D1 at a fairly mediocre school vs D3 at a highly rated LAC. If finances are not an issue, there’s not much of a choice here - career options will be night and day. We had a similar choice and attending a NESCAC, playing sport has worked out very well for our DD.

Cite?

[Anonymous]

Colby if you are or aspire to be UMC. JMU is LMC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colby alum.
Give it serious consideration. It's an amazing place where all classes are taught by professors, not grad students.
Have you visited? The campus is amazing. The new athletic center is world-class. The new science buildings are fabulous. The new dorms/housing options - phenomenal.
Colby has poured huge money into the town of Waterville, and the town/gown effect has improved dramatically.
yes, Maine is cold in the winter. But it's also beautiful and the community there is wonderful.

What's the sport?

What is with this hyperbolic gushing over a tiny, remote school in the middle of nowhere? And again - “world class”? I mean, come on.

So sorry your kid didn't get in.

This school would never in a million years have been on my kid’s radar.

We know.

GPA requirements are probably over a 2.0 after all

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a classic D1 at a fairly mediocre school vs D3 at a highly rated LAC. If finances are not an issue, there’s not much of a choice here - career options will be night and day. We had a similar choice and attending a NESCAC, playing sport has worked out very well for our DD.

Cite?

Average Colby graduate salary >85k. Average JMU graduate salary - 65k. Multiple Wall Street firms recruit from Colby, none do at JMU
Even if not just about starting salary - Colby law school acceptance rate 87%, Med School 68% - both miles above national average. Career wise, it’s not even in the same zipcode. A lot of people get caught up in “going D1” though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a classic D1 at a fairly mediocre school vs D3 at a highly rated LAC. If finances are not an issue, there’s not much of a choice here - career options will be night and day. We had a similar choice and attending a NESCAC, playing sport has worked out very well for our DD.

Cite?

Average Colby graduate salary >85k. Average JMU graduate salary - 65k. Multiple Wall Street firms recruit from Colby, none do at JMU
Even if not just about starting salary - Colby law school acceptance rate 87%, Med School 68% - both miles above national average. Career wise, it’s not even in the same zipcode. A lot of people get caught up in “going D1” though.

Where was this data retrieved? Were the salaries controlled for household wealth?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a classic D1 at a fairly mediocre school vs D3 at a highly rated LAC. If finances are not an issue, there’s not much of a choice here - career options will be night and day. We had a similar choice and attending a NESCAC, playing sport has worked out very well for our DD.

Cite?

Average Colby graduate salary >85k. Average JMU graduate salary - 65k. Multiple Wall Street firms recruit from Colby, none do at JMU
Even if not just about starting salary - Colby law school acceptance rate 87%, Med School 68% - both miles above national average. Career wise, it’s not even in the same zipcode. A lot of people get caught up in “going D1” though.

Where was this data retrieved? Were the salaries controlled for household wealth?

I believe on both colleges websites

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colby alum.
Give it serious consideration. It's an amazing place where all classes are taught by professors, not grad students.
Have you visited? The campus is amazing. The new athletic center is world-class. The new science buildings are fabulous. The new dorms/housing options - phenomenal.
Colby has poured huge money into the town of Waterville, and the town/gown effect has improved dramatically.
yes, Maine is cold in the winter. But it's also beautiful and the community there is wonderful.

What's the sport?

What is with this hyperbolic gushing over a tiny, remote school in the middle of nowhere? And again - “world class”? I mean, come on.

Either you are pissed that you or your kids didn't get in or you've never visited. Either way stop pissing on something you know nothing about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Outside Virginia it's likely not too many people are more familiar with JMU than with Colby, if that's an actual criterion for selecting a school.

Colby is a so-called "potted Ivy"; that is, an academically well-rated and nationally known small liberal arts college. JMU is a large middle-of-the-road regional university. As you note, they are vastly different in character, reputation, academic rigor, location, size, and in many other dimensions.

It might be best to leave the sports aspect out of things unless your kid hopes to be a sports professional. Instead, look at which school will provide the best preparation for post-college life, whether that is employment in a particular field or graduate school.

You sound nice

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colby!!!!!!!!!!

JMU is really just a VA/DMV school. I've always heard of Colby (not from this area) but I've never heard of JMU until I moved here. But I am a small liberal arts graduate so maybe it was in my orbit from when I applied to college. And then in law school, I knew lots of Colby grads. Didn't know any from JMU.

+1

If everything else is equal, this is all very true. I'm from NYC. Everyone from NJ and north knows Colby is a good school.

I had never heard of JMU until I moved to NoVa.

Right….because Colby is such a household name.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colby!!!!!!!!!!

JMU is really just a VA/DMV school. I've always heard of Colby (not from this area) but I've never heard of JMU until I moved here. But I am a small liberal arts graduate so maybe it was in my orbit from when I applied to college. And then in law school, I knew lots of Colby grads. Didn't know any from JMU.

Well, among the 20 or so graduates of my sorority alone in my grad year from JMU, two went to Georgetown and one to UVA for law school. I wonder how many from Colby got into those schools altogether that same year. You are ignorant when it comes to comparing universities. Colby is a joke, honestly. It's for wealthy private school kids who didn't get into top schools and think they're too good for JMU.

Damn. How do you even get a seatbelt on when you drove. That chip on your shoulder must be hell to navigate.

OP—
https://afa.colby.edu/outcomes/#:~:text=Colby%20is%20a%20springboard%2C&text=that%20help%20our%20graduates%20start,salary%20of%20more%20than%20%24100%2C000.

Those aren’t stats, they are mktg. Really want to compare outcomes, do it right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. It is a tougher choice than I would have thought. If we were just looking at academic reputation in a vacuum, Colby is an easy choice. But it is also big vs. small school, isolated vs. close-enough to other things/big town. I am a bit of a reputation-snob myself but even I am struggling with advising DC. What they want as a major is offered at both. Sport would offer a friend-group at both.

The differential in acceptance rates tells you everything you need to know. If location was an issue, why did DC apply to Colby?!?

I’m quite certain you have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. It is a tougher choice than I would have thought. If we were just looking at academic reputation in a vacuum, Colby is an easy choice. But it is also big vs. small school, isolated vs. close-enough to other things/big town. I am a bit of a reputation-snob myself but even I am struggling with advising DC. What they want as a major is offered at both. Sport would offer a friend-group at both.

The differential in acceptance rates tells you everything you need to know. If location was an issue, why did DC apply to Colby?!?

What does acceptance rate tell us?

That Colby is tiny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. It is a tougher choice than I would have thought. If we were just looking at academic reputation in a vacuum, Colby is an easy choice. But it is also big vs. small school, isolated vs. close-enough to other things/big town. I am a bit of a reputation-snob myself but even I am struggling with advising DC. What they want as a major is offered at both. Sport would offer a friend-group at both.

The differential in acceptance rates tells you everything you need to know. If location was an issue, why did DC apply to Colby?!?

What does acceptance rate tell us?

It tells you something about the quality of the student body. JMU’s acceptance rate is over 80 percent. Colby’s is below 10 percent. The SAT/ACT and GPA figures are vastly different too.

Indiana has a 90 percent acceptance rate and lower SAT than JMU but I would send DD there for business over JMU and your dying SLAC in a heartbeat