IU or JMU?

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I don’t think she meant LITERALLY no one. my god you JMU boosters are tiresome.

Actually, what's tiresome are the same trolls who show up whenever JMU (or CNU, UMW, etc.) are mentioned to feign ignorance of the school or pretend that it's not known to people from other states. You don't have to be a "booster" to be sick of the trolls. Too bad we can't post the JMU Parents' FB page here, where there is a whole subsection for OOS parents to discuss transportation and other topics relevant to their situations.

Eh, my DH never heard of JMU until our kid was in high school. We’d lived in Va 20 years at that point. The are lots of college we’d never heard of.

Seriously, you lived in VA for 20 years before hearing of JMU? You must not read/watch news, travel beyond the Beltway, or actually talk to people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Keep trolling. So believable.
DP

Did you live in DC in the 90s? No one was talking about or applying to JMU. I mean DC, not the Va suburbs. I knew one person who went there and they were the girlfriend of a friend at UVa. She was from Harrisonburg.

No, thank God I did not live in DC. I grew up just outside of DC, however, in a close-in suburb, and everyone knew JMU and applied there.

Makes sense given that it was the in-state safety. That only proves that in Virginia, high school students are aware of their in-state options. And lol on your love of the NoVa suburbs. Thank God I did not grow up there.

JMU was not a safety in the 80s and 90s. But do go on! You seem to know so very much about a school you claim to know nothing about.

Ok, you're right! It's basically UVa. LOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I don’t think she meant LITERALLY no one. my god you JMU boosters are tiresome.

Actually, what's tiresome are the same trolls who show up whenever JMU (or CNU, UMW, etc.) are mentioned to feign ignorance of the school or pretend that it's not known to people from other states. You don't have to be a "booster" to be sick of the trolls. Too bad we can't post the JMU Parents' FB page here, where there is a whole subsection for OOS parents to discuss transportation and other topics relevant to their situations.

Eh, my DH never heard of JMU until our kid was in high school. We’d lived in Va 20 years at that point. The are lots of college we’d never heard of.

Seriously, you lived in VA for 20 years before hearing of JMU? You must not read/watch news, travel beyond the Beltway, or actually talk to people.

NP. Sorry, Virginia safety schools just aren’t top of mind. Here or anywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I don’t think she meant LITERALLY no one. my god you JMU boosters are tiresome.

Actually, what's tiresome are the same trolls who show up whenever JMU (or CNU, UMW, etc.) are mentioned to feign ignorance of the school or pretend that it's not known to people from other states. You don't have to be a "booster" to be sick of the trolls. Too bad we can't post the JMU Parents' FB page here, where there is a whole subsection for OOS parents to discuss transportation and other topics relevant to their situations.

Eh, my DH never heard of JMU until our kid was in high school. We’d lived in Va 20 years at that point. The are lots of college we’d never heard of.

Seriously, you lived in VA for 20 years before hearing of JMU? You must not read/watch news, travel beyond the Beltway, or actually talk to people.

what is so news-worthy about JMU? at the time we're living our lives and colleges just are not part of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

[Anonymous]

OP, is your DS a big sports fan? If so, that would argue heavily for a state flagship. The Big10 sports environment (basketball in particular) really adds a lot to the Indiana experience.

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IU is located in the state of Indiana.

Good luck with that. Parents are so dumb.

And JMU is in a random mountain town in central Va, not a world city.

I can only conclude that that poster has never been to IU. When my sibling was there, there was a literal tent city of kids camping out for world peace. For months at a time. With camp stoves. And the school was fine with it. IU is liberal!

That's all I need to know. My kid would hate it.
DP

Your kid is against world peace???? Yikes.

“Flagship”

Well what’s your point? Your kid can’t tolerate a small portion of a flagship university making a peaceful demonstration for a good cause? That’s wild.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IU, if put of state for both. JMU if you are in a close state and just want to be able to drive.

These two schools are very different and both are safeties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

+1
Trying so hard to seem above it all but failing miserably.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IU, if put of state for both. JMU if you are in a close state and just want to be able to drive.

These two schools are very different and both are safeties.

One person’s safety is not necessarily other people’s safety. You seem intent on disparaging people for no reason at all. Says so much about you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Keep trolling. So believable.
DP

Did you live in DC in the 90s? No one was talking about or applying to JMU. I mean DC, not the Va suburbs. I knew one person who went there and they were the girlfriend of a friend at UVa. She was from Harrisonburg.

No, thank God I did not live in DC. I grew up just outside of DC, however, in a close-in suburb, and everyone knew JMU and applied there.

Makes sense given that it was the in-state safety. That only proves that in Virginia, high school students are aware of their in-state options. And lol on your love of the NoVa suburbs. Thank God I did not grow up there.

JMU was not a safety in the 80s and 90s. But do go on! You seem to know so very much about a school you claim to know nothing about.

It was in the 80s. I grew up here and plenty of people went there but they were sort of the popular B, non honors students. Kids in the honors/AP classes didn’t even consider it or apply there BUT that’s because UVA and WM were much more of a sure thing. I think JMU seems to have gone a long way and seems like a great place to go to school and a lot more kids are considering it as UVA and WM, not to mention Tech as well which was a pretty easy admit back in the day, become harder admits. I think it’s particularly attractive to kids that won’t get into UVA, don’t live the WM vibe and find Tech just too big or some combination of those issues.

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I grew up in Pennsylvania and someone from my high school went to JMU, so I had heard of it in the 1980s. But I didn't really know anything about it.

Anyway, my senior daughter and I toured both Indiana and JMU, although she ended up applying to neither since she ended up picking a major neither has. Both are out of state for us.

I would have been completely fine if JMU worked out for her. Nice campus, good variety of majors, lots of DC kids. Not too far. Overall a decent option. However, we LOVED IU and Bloomington. Gorgeous campus, great college town, beautiful buildings. I had never been in Indiana before and were so surprised by how nice IU and Bloomington were.

If expense is not a factor, and unless you have other circumstances like wanting child nearby or on a smaller campus, etc. I would definitely pick IU, especially if that's what the kid wants. Great school, nationally known, fabulous college town.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IU, if put of state for both. JMU if you are in a close state and just want to be able to drive.

These two schools are very different and both are safeties.

Safety for whom? Maybe your DC, but you get that safeties are different for every applicant, right? My kid was WL at Indiana and would love to attend. BTW DC is a B student at a rigorous private & 33 ACT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IU, if put of state for both. JMU if you are in a close state and just want to be able to drive.

These two schools are very different and both are safeties.

Safety for whom? Maybe your DC, but you get that safeties are different for every applicant, right? My kid was WL at Indiana and would love to attend. BTW DC is a B student at a rigorous private & 33 ACT.

DP. And my kid was flat-out rejected at JMU. Not a safety for her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

Maybe. We didn't have the internet and I went to a top school where no one was talking about JMU. My parents weren't from VA and I didn't have close friends who lived in the VA suburbs. Probably more elitist than clueless, but same result.