No medium selectivity colleges in VA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JMU is not 90% acceptance. It wasn't even that was 30 years ago. Current rate is 76%

JMU is a crapshoot. My public HS 3.9/1350 SAT kid got denied there but got into UW and Michigan. I actually called the admissions office thinking it was an error as my DD has a very common name (ie Jenn Smith). Nope, they meant to tell her no.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, poly sci

[Anonymous]

No need to crap on JMU, especially Political Science. It’s a strong department with good, caring professors.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter, people. Undergraduate doesn’t matter. It’s all six of one, half dozen of the other.

All the ratings are based on grad school metrics including research dollars.

[Anonymous]

I'm to from Virginia but I am a hiring manager at a large company in Virginia. In my mind, it goes like this

UVA
William & Mary
Virginia Tech
JMU
Virginia Commonwealth
Everything else
George Mason

[Anonymous]

Should have said I'm NOT from Virginia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU is not 90% acceptance. It wasn't even that was 30 years ago. Current rate is 76%

JMU is a crapshoot. My public HS 3.9/1350 SAT kid got denied there but got into UW and Michigan. I actually called the admissions office thinking it was an error as my DD has a very common name (ie Jenn Smith). Nope, they meant to tell her no.

Your kid got into Michigan with a 3.9/1350? In state or OOS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Virginia has two: VT (non STEM) and JMU. I don't think MD has any. Most states don't have more than 2 except the ones significantly bigger than Virginia.

JMU should never be compared to VT.

Why? For non-STEM, JMU might be the better option for many.

Better option how? VT has much more respect in the D.C. metro area/VA than JMU. For any major.

Nope. I'm from here.
It's
Tier 1: uva and wm
Tier 2: jmu and vt
Tier 3: gmu, vcu, cnu etc

Facts! It parallels our high school scoir data

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU is not 90% acceptance. It wasn't even that was 30 years ago. Current rate is 76%

JMU is a crapshoot. My public HS 3.9/1350 SAT kid got denied there but got into UW and Michigan. I actually called the admissions office thinking it was an error as my DD has a very common name (ie Jenn Smith). Nope, they meant to tell her no.

Your kid got into Michigan with a 3.9/1350? In state or OOS?

Our high school sends lots of 3.9uw/upper 1300s to Michigan, if not engineering

[Anonymous]

JMU and VT are peer institutions these days. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm to from Virginia but I am a hiring manager at a large company in Virginia. In my mind, it goes like this

UVA
William & Mary
Virginia Tech
JMU
Virginia Commonwealth
Everything else
George Mason

Where do W&L and Richmond fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm to from Virginia but I am a hiring manager at a large company in Virginia. In my mind, it goes like this

UVA
William & Mary
Virginia Tech
JMU
Virginia Commonwealth
Everything else
George Mason

I find this kind of silly. Kids applying to UVA will also apply to W&M or Tech, but not necessarily both. Kids applying to W&M might not apply to JMU at all. The schools have very different vibes and it's unlikely that all 4 would be a good fit personality-wise. I know plenty of smart kids who chose not to apply to W&M b/c it didn't feel right or others who didn't like the vibe at Tech. You can't just compare them down a straight line. W&M is very much like a LAC and needs to be on its own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like in VA there are only competitive colleges (UVA, W&M, Tech) and 90% acceptance rate colleges (VCU, CNU, ODU, GMU, JMU). Why aren't there colleges like SBU in NY or UMass amherst in MA in VA?

You have a lot of in-state options, OP. Better than what we have in MD

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Virginia has two: VT (non STEM) and JMU. I don't think MD has any. Most states don't have more than 2 except the ones significantly bigger than Virginia.

JMU should never be compared to VT.

Why? For non-STEM, JMU might be the better option for many.

I have a kids currently at both JMU and VT and both are doing great. Both are also in humanities, not STEM. It's so weird that people assume VT must not have good humanities, when the opposite is actually true. Just because some schools have "tech" in their name, they also offer liberal arts/humanities. MIT, GT, VT, etc.
NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No need to crap on JMU, especially Political Science. It’s a strong department with good, caring professors.

+1
There is one particular poster on this forum who *loves* to dump on JMU, for no actual reason. S/he has got to be the most insecure poster of all time. The students at JMU are wonderful and I've never met any alumni who hasn't loved their experience.