Which is the better VA university: VA Tech or JMU?

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Anonymous wrote:The only VA college DD applied to was Tech. JMU (in her view and the view of her friends) is becoming 13th grade.

jmu has always been 13th grade.

Never heard that. In fact I have heard it's a very good school.

It's a fine school. The seniors from around here go to JMU and they already know tons of other kids so they report back that it's like high school -- lots of parties with kids they knew from high school. My DD prefers VT because she recognized less people from high school there. So some see the familiarity as a positive and others as a negative.

This: "13th grade" is more about knowing so many people in a smallish environment.

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Anonymous wrote:You JMU alums are so jealous of Virginia Tech. JMU is not even a real division 1 school. Tech is an ACC school and is ranked as a top national university. It is also one of the top research grant receiving institutions in the world. JMU is a fine regional university but it's not on par with Tech in admissions selectivity or anything else.

Who the hell cares if its a division 1 school? You sound a little unhinged.

Tech is certainly top-notch in engineering and architecture, but I think it's stretching it to call it a "top national university." JMU does not have the same name recognition, that's for sure. JMU accepts a lower percentage of applicants but enrolls a lower share of its accepted students as well (indicating it is a top choice of fewer of its accepted students), and accepted students have somewhat lower SAT scores.

Tech in 2013-2014 had 19,112 applicants and accepted 13,432 or 70 percent. Of accepted students, 5,360 enrolled, for a yield of 40%. The middle 50% of SAT scores was 540-640 (CR) and 580-680 (math).

JMU (2012-2013--more recent data not posted yet) had 22,648 applicants and accepted 14,392 or 63.5%. Of accepted students, 4323 enrolled, for a yield of 30%. The middle 50% of SAT scores was 520-620 (CR) and 530-630 (math).

Interesting to note that JMU gets many more applications from women than Tech does (13,300 vs. 7,700), while Tech gets more male applicants (11,400 vs. 9,300 at JMU).

FWIW, I went to a Virginia school that's ranked far above both Tech and JMU, so no jealousy here.

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Of course JMU gets more female applicants: it's student population approaches 70% women.
Tech is in the minority of colleges that has more men than women. I think MIT, CMU, Clemson, GA Tech probably have more men or at least much closer to 50:50 than JMU.

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Who the hell cares if its a division 1 school? You sound a little unhinged.

You're kidding right? This certainly wins the most ridiculous comment of the thread, maybe the month.

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Thanks for the support 18:27. It's hard to take anything else serious that this nitwit says when they lead with that comment.

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Who the hell cares if its a division 1 school? You sound a little unhinged.

You're kidding right? This certainly wins the most ridiculous comment of the thread, maybe the month.

How is that comment ridiculous? College sports appeals to some college students, but no everybody. Of course when you in the hollers of Blacksburg there is not a lot going on outside of college athletics so I can understand the importance of them down there. It's not like students are going to a Broadway play, or the Kennedy Center on the weekends. Many fine schools place little emphasis on sports like MIT or NYU. There are starting to be more calls to eliminate college athletics. There are plenty of good reasons to deemphasize, if not eliminate them.


http://t.washingtonmonthly.com/washingtonmonthly/#!/entry/just-eliminate-college-sports,52cc3de2025312186cb247fc

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/sports/at-spelman-dropping-sports-in-favor-of-fitness.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/05/07/would-banning-college-football-actually-help-academics/

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Anonymous wrote:TJ Math/Science types add to VT application stats. Not so many go, but I'll guess most apply. They use it as a safety (of a nice instate choice)

They might add to the top, but the bottom is still higher and close to JMU's average.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong- you crack me up. I can tell you not one kid at Langley last year got into Tech and not into JMU. There were however a large number that got into JMU but not Tech. College football and basketball is quite popular with college students-- take a look at a game on TV sometime.

How on earth would you know this information? Answer: you don't and it's a load of BS. You have no idea how many kids got into either, both, or neither. As for college sports, sure some kids care about that. But most really don't.

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Surprisingly few graduates of TJ, the state's premier science and technology high school even apply to Tech. Last year only 104 TJ students were accepted at Tech compared to 190 for William and Mary and 195 to UVA. Seems like TJ students are not going to Tech.

http://www.tjhsst.edu/abouttj/schoolprofile/docs/2013_14_TJHSST%20Profile.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Who the hell cares if its a division 1 school? You sound a little unhinged.

You're kidding right? This certainly wins the most ridiculous comment of the thread, maybe the month.

How is that comment ridiculous? College sports appeals to some college students, but no everybody. Of course when you in the hollers of Blacksburg there is not a lot going on outside of college athletics so I can understand the importance of them down there. It's not like students are going to a Broadway play, or the Kennedy Center on the weekends. Many fine schools place little emphasis on sports like MIT or NYU. There are starting to be more calls to eliminate college athletics. There are plenty of good reasons to deemphasize, if not eliminate them.

http://t.washingtonmonthly.com/washingtonmonthly/#!/entry/just-eliminate-college-sports,52cc3de2025312186cb247fc

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/sports/at-spelman-dropping-sports-in-favor-of-fitness.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2012/05/07/would-banning-college-football-actually-help-academics/

+1000
Our kids actively looked for schools that de-emphasized the whole sports culture. There are many kids like that; look at the popularity of the SLAC. Anyone who thinks Division I sports are the end-all be-all to college selection sounds like bit of a knuckle-dragger.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong- you crack me up. I can tell you not one kid at Langley last year got into Tech and not into JMU. There were however a large number that got into JMU but not Tech. College football and basketball is quite popular with college students-- take a look at a game on TV sometime.

My kid applied to JMU (and other VA schools) but had zero interest in Tech. By the way, did you poll every student at Langley last year to find out exactly which schools they applied and were accepted to? What a seriously ridiculous claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong- you crack me up. I can tell you not one kid at Langley last year got into Tech and not into JMU. There were however a large number that got into JMU but not Tech. College football and basketball is quite popular with college students-- take a look at a game on TV sometime.

How on earth would you know this information? Answer: you don't and it's a load of BS. You have no idea how many kids got into either, both, or neither. As for college sports, sure some kids care about that. But most really don't.

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[Anonymous]

The girls at JMU are some of the hottest in the nation. period.

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JMU is not famous for stem which are the real paying degrees

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Anonymous wrote:The girls at JMU are some of the hottest in the nation. period.

yes they look great as entry level recruiters with worthless sociology degrees