JMU vs. Colby

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Anonymous wrote:Colby refers to their TAs as "Learning Assistants" - probably so that anyone researching the school wouldn't easily see that they very much rely on TAs (sorry - "LAs").
https://web.colby.edu/talk/

I assume you realize that the assistants at schools like Colby are actual assistants. They do not teach the courses the way TAs do at large universities.

Sure, Jan. Keep telling yourself that, as you desperately post, trying to pretend Colby doesn't use TAs.

This is so laughable and proves how little you know about small colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:This is no contest, Colby by far. My DS went to JMU and it was like a glorified high school, where many professors couldn't care less about your kid's success. There is little help offered by the career center unless your DC majored in something marketable - computer science, nursing - in which case they don't need much help because the job market is good.

Colby is a very wealthy school that is invested in its graduates' success. My DD was recruited there and we visited - the campus is somewhat isolated but the school's infrastructure is very nice. Good dorms, food, and very active career center.

Please don't pick JMU over Colby, unless your kid is a hard-partying frat kid who has a post-college job lined up in his family's business in Roanoke.

Roanoke? More kids at JMU from NY and NJ than Roanoke.

As for outcomes no difference despite your squeals. So much for the “Wall Street Connections”:

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=James_Madison_University_(JMU)/Salary

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Colby_College/Salary

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Another interesting fact from those links: Colby's ROI is 268. JMU's is 117. Too funny.

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Wow that backfired on the Colby booster

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Anonymous wrote:This is no contest, Colby by far. My DS went to JMU and it was like a glorified high school, where many professors couldn't care less about your kid's success. There is little help offered by the career center unless your DC majored in something marketable - computer science, nursing - in which case they don't need much help because the job market is good.

Colby is a very wealthy school that is invested in its graduates' success. My DD was recruited there and we visited - the campus is somewhat isolated but the school's infrastructure is very nice. Good dorms, food, and very active career center.

Please don't pick JMU over Colby, unless your kid is a hard-partying frat kid who has a post-college job lined up in his family's business in Roanoke.

Sorry your kid wasn’t successful at JMU. It’s very unlikely they’d be more successful at an even more selective school. Just more mediocre at Colby than JMU. My husband had a job at the big 8 by winter of senior year at JMU and now is on Wall Street. All his business fraternity friends have done very well.

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Anonymous wrote:This is no contest, Colby by far. My DS went to JMU and it was like a glorified high school, where many professors couldn't care less about your kid's success. There is little help offered by the career center unless your DC majored in something marketable - computer science, nursing - in which case they don't need much help because the job market is good.

Colby is a very wealthy school that is invested in its graduates' success. My DD was recruited there and we visited - the campus is somewhat isolated but the school's infrastructure is very nice. Good dorms, food, and very active career center.

Please don't pick JMU over Colby, unless your kid is a hard-partying frat kid who has a post-college job lined up in his family's business in Roanoke.

Sorry your kid wasn’t successful at JMU. It’s very unlikely they’d be more successful at an even more selective school. Just more mediocre at Colby than JMU. My husband had a job at the big 8 by winter of senior year at JMU and now is on Wall Street. All his business fraternity friends have done very well.

What’s the Big 8? You mean Big 6 accounting firms? (Which are now 4)

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Anonymous wrote:Did Colby football make a bowl this year?

Does anyone at Colby care? Is anyone at Colby majoring in football?

I went to Wake during the Tim Duncan years. And the basketball Games were fu. But, I have certainly never been asked in a job interview whether wake made the Sweet 16 while I was there.

I would hope that whether you spend 4 years of your life and $120k for JMU or 3x that for Colby, your decision making is a little deeper than “will this school go to a bowl game”.

22,000 kids at JMU care.

Good. I hope they enjoy watching the bowl game on TV. I also hope they have parents that have more sense than to spend over 100k based on football scores, rather than education and outcomes. Given how much college costs, if you are basing your choice on the football team’s record, send your kid to a community college and use your substantial savings to buy season tickets for your kids favorite pro sports team. You’ll still come out ahead.

PS— I went to a college with decent sports in an actual real conference (not a regional whatever conference like JMU). And I guarantee that a significant number of kids at JMU don’t care.

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JMU kids over and over, and think it’s a flex. I hear 22,000 kids at a meh regional college and think— wow— tier 3 grad students means a bunch of classes taught by Tier 3 TAs. But hey— at least they re winning football games? Seriously?
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98% of classes at JMU are taught by professors. Nice try.

https://www.jmu.edu/about/fact-and-figures.shtml

And yet only 76% of said “professors” have terminal degrees in their field. Colby is 100%. WM is 96%.

So, 24% of JMU “professors” aren’t TAs but don’t have a terminal degree, what are they? BA/BS/MA/MS that couldn’t hack a PhD program? Not confidence inspiring.

Yawn.

See I’d be concerned if 1/4 of my kids professors couldn’t hack their PhD program. But, you do you Boo. I guess there really is a college for everyone.

If this miserable attitude is a reflection of Colby, I’d choose JMU every time. I feel bad for this poster, seriously.

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The insecurity on the part of the Colby booster, posting over and over, is quite staggering.

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