JMU or GMU?

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever place you end up at, do well and transfer to UVA, if possible.

I could be wrong on this, but I think UVA makes it difficult for transfers from GMU and JMU because it has to allot @ 800 seats every third year (what other schools call "junior year")for the NVCC students. The NVCC students must take a certain load of courses and get a certain GPA. Once they've done that, it is an automatic in at UVA for third year. For that reason alone, I think UVA makes it more difficult for GMU and JMU transfers . . . the system wants to keep them at GMU and JMU, because its priority is to make sure it has enough seats for the NVCC students but check that out. I could have it wrong. I have a senior at GMU and I've never heard of anyone transferring to UVA from GMU.

Anecdotally, my friend's son applied for transfer from a SLAC to UVA last year. Parents were told that although his credentials were great, that admittance would largely depend on # of NVCC guaranteed transfers - they get the priority over other regular transfers, period.

Yes, they do (I'm the PP saying I had a senior at GMU and had never heard of a transfer but wasn't sure). the NVCC students who have met the criteria do get priority. Somewhere between 600 to 800 enter in the third year, although I have no idea where they house them. Did the son of your friend get the transfer? I know of only one successful transfer and that was a UVA waitlisted student who went to a college outside the Virginia system and reapplied immediately for second year. He did get in. But I suspect if he waited one more year he would not have gotten in (because of the NVCC students entering). I would be curious to know if GMU and JMU students have transferred easily to UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Whichever place you end up at, do well and transfer to UVA, if possible.

Or, you know, do well and stay at either school. I have kids at both GMU and JMU and neither they nor their friends have any desire to transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whichever place you end up at, do well and transfer to UVA, if possible.

Or, you know, do well and stay at either school. I have kids at both GMU and JMU and neither they nor their friends have any desire to transfer.

+ 1. Have a DS about the graduate from GMU this spring. He's had a great four years.

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Both solid schools with good stats on graduation rates and career placements. Let your kid go with whichever they like best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both solid schools with good stats on graduation rates and career placements. Let your kid go with whichever they like best.

+1
I'd be very happy if my kids chose either school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whichever place you end up at, do well and transfer to UVA, if possible.

Or, you know, do well and stay at either school. I have kids at both GMU and JMU and neither they nor their friends have any desire to transfer.

I know kids that transferred from UVA to JMU or Tech because they hated UVA. College shouldn't be a bad experience and there is plenty of stuff not like about UVA and Charllottesville. Charlottesville has such an association with tiki torches, murder, scandal it's no place for respectable peoples kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whichever place you end up at, do well and transfer to UVA, if possible.

Or, you know, do well and stay at either school. I have kids at both GMU and JMU and neither they nor their friends have any desire to transfer.

I know kids that transferred from UVA to JMU or Tech because they hated UVA. College shouldn't be a bad experience and there is plenty of stuff not like about UVA and Charllottesville. Charlottesville has such an association with tiki torches, murder, scandal it's no place for respectable peoples kids.

Haters got to hate! I feel sorry for you. Try turning your energy inward and do something productive with your life instead of slamming schools on this board.