IU or JMU?
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Anonymous
Why would I be aware of a not highly ranked school in a state I did not live when I was applying to Top 25 schools? The insistence that JMU was well known 30 years ago is just bizarre. It's in a small town in central VA--nowhere near DC. Where would I have heard of it? |
Anonymous
DP and I was on the opposite end of the spectrum. I grew up lower middle class and college was a luxury. I met DH at a branch campus of the nearest college and we worked and went to school at night/weekend and then went on to law school 4-5 nights a week. People need to get out of their bubble or hurt feelings to think we sat around discussing, comparing, researching or caring about colleges, (expect maybe the very top powerhouse sports on TV that we'd happen to watch). |
Anonymous
Lol, you are definitely showing, not telling here. Did they teach that at your T25? |
Anonymous
Showing that pre-internet I did not know about random public universities not in my state? Did you have an encyclopedic knowledge of publics ranked 5-10 in their state university systems all over the country 30 years ago? Weird 90s flex but ok. |
Anonymous
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Insulting other commenters for saying they had never heard of JMU until recently seems like a pointless digression when all the current college ranking systems rank Indiana much higher than they do JMU. It's not a matter of one person's subjective or out of date opinion.
That's not a slight at JMU, but generally unless there's some specific financial or geographic or subject matter reason to do otherwise, most students try to go to the school where they'll get the better/best education and have the strongest career payoff. |
Anonymous
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Even 30+ years ago, if you lived in the DMV and hadn’t heard of JMU, you must have been living under a rock.
No, I didn’t go there, but it was on my radar as a VA public university like ODU, CNU, UMW, VCU, Radford, Longwood, GMU, UVA, or VT. |
Anonymous
and W&M. |
Anonymous
good for you. as others have said here, they were out living their lives and VA's 4th ranked public (2 cliff falls after #1,2 & #3) college just did not come up. And yet, these people survived 30 more years! |
Anonymous
| I first heard of JMU when oldest DD attended a summer Nike Volleyball camp there. |
Anonymous
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I went to IU for undergrad. I am from the DMV and loved IU!
Great campus, sports, and college town. A popular school for kids from the east coast (MD, VA, NJ, NY, PA). |
Anonymous
How easy/hard is it to get there and back from this area? |
Anonymous
I graduated over 10 years ago so things might have changed but it was easy! Direct flights from DC to Indy and there was a shuttle that took students from the airport right to campus. The bus dropped students off at different spots on campus. There was a fee but it wasn't too bad. My family drove me there at the beginning of the year and we drove home at the end of the school year. 10ish hours to drive but it's a very easy drive. |
Anonymous
thanks, DS is adding IU to his "soft target" list (we don't say "safeties" anymore) |
Anonymous
 At least you have a tiny bit of self-awareness.
DP |
Anonymous
The more you post, the sillier you look. I also went to high school 30 years ago, but in NoVA. JMU was one of the most talked about, popular schools at that time, and guess what - still is - for VA students, mid-Atlantic students (and that includes MD and DC, btw) and in the past couple of decades, students from other states as well. Look, we get it. You want everyone to know you went to a "top school" and applied only to "top 25 schools." You can sit down now. No one cares about your weird insistence that you are somehow above average. Which kind of begs the question - why are you on this thread? |