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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the kids on here with 4.3's and higher really considering going to JMU?  I'm being honest, not being snarky.  When my older kids applied they were aiming for VT and UVA and W&M and wouldn't think of JMU.  They'd go out of state before JMU. I don't see how JMU would be the top choice for a kid who is top of their class?  Also, why does it seem so many OOS got in.[/quote]

[b]Va Tech (70 percent acceptance)[/b] other than engineering is no where near WM and UVA either[/quote]

Somebody keeps quoting this 70% acceptance rate and needs to get up to speed on the reality. SCHEV data shows that in 2021-22, for Arlington County, VT's acceptance rate (all majors) was 39.4%, Fairfax County was 40.3%.  For all of Virginia it was 44%.

https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

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I also wonder where the 70% figure comes from. According to this VT site - [url]https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college [/url]- the non-engineering acceptance rates for 2022-23 were 65% for out-of-state and 52% for in-state - an overall non-engineering acceptance rate of 58% for the year.

For the College of Engineering, 2022-2023 acceptance rates were 55% overall; 50% in-state and 60% out-of-state. So the in-state acceptance rate for engineering (50%) isn't too much lower than the in-state acceptance rate for everything else (52%).

At least that is how I understand the data at the VT link. Still higher acceptance rates than UVA and W&M, I think, but nowhere near 70% for Virginia residents. [/quote]

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