Rank these VA public universities
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Anonymous
m”bricks and boredom “? |
Anonymous
Ignore the trolls. |
Anonymous
If you the OP, go and Google the common data set for all the Virginia schools that interest you. That will give you many of the answers you seek. |
Anonymous
+1. I posted earlier asking if JMU slipped, but according to this list JMU is still in the top 4, same as it was when I graduated HS in 90. |
Anonymous
You need more than that. I know a kid who had a 4.5 including an A in calculus who was rejected from Tech Engineering, and he wasn't even from NOVA. |
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George Mason Out of State Students by Year (Entering Freshman)
2017: 20% 2016 - 19% 2015 - 21% 2014 - 20% 2013 - 20% 2001 - 11% (this is the oldest one posted on website) |
Anonymous
Why would anyone from out of state go to this school other than on a scholarship? |
Anonymous
Good lord are you ignorant. |
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Here's GMU move-in day for class of 2021 - 3500 students, representing 83 countries and 49 states. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZZpFpR6LY. The Schrev reports have the GPA of the entering class of 2021 at 3.90 for top 25%, and bottom 25% at 3.40. My child has lived in the dorm all four years and has had lots of OOS and international students as roommates or suitemates. My child had a great four years. The only downside to Mason is the constant construction. The upside are the new facilities and dorms. There are now several campuses including the new one in songdo, N. Korea. GMU is now the largest university in Virginia. This will get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University |
Anonymous
A better measure is GPA where 90% or more will be accepted. You will find it is somewhat lower. |
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About what? |
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I only read the first few pages of this post, but as a JMU grad, the comparisons between JMU and Tech are interesting. When I graduated high school (90, so a long time ago!) JMU was quite superior to Tech academically (engineering the exception then also). Interesting to hear that they are even or maybe Tech is a bit above JMU now in overall academics. I grew up in VA and our top top students from highs school all went UVA or WM, darn near close to top went to JMU and the above average kids went to Tech. VCU and Radford were much easier to get into. In 5 years or so I'll be looking at this again for my kids but good to know how things change.
I can say that JMU was an absolutely amazing place to go to college. Such a friendly campus, fun students, plenty of parties and plenty of space to be yourself. |
Anonymous
I find this surprising. I went to college in the 80's, in the sciences (not engineering). I guess it depends on the major. Sure, you do not go to tech for an english major, but in the sciences it was much better than JMU. |
Anonymous
+1 The admissions profile and ranking for JMU has not been higher than VTech any time in the last 4 decades at least. Now that doesn't tell you what some high school students *thought* at the time, especially pre-internet. Maybe if you and your friends weren't primarily science-oriented, VTech wouldn't be as much on your radar and JMU at that time was the "better" school from that perspective. I think the really interesting thing now is that looking at the common data set, at this point GMU is now slightly harder to get into than JMU--and its average GPA, SAT, and ACT are all marginally higher. I think that's the real surprise in recent years: JMU isn't in the running with VTech anymore, it's in competition with GMU. But I don't think it's because JMU has "slipped" more the explosive growth of GMU. That said, as others have noted, among NOVA students there may be a bit of a bias against GMU because it's too close to home. JMU is also cheaper. But students graduating from GMU have much higher average starting salaries than JMU, so maybe from a financial standpoint, it's a tie also? |