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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And JMU isn't great either.[/quote]

Then again you are talking about 8 students out of a class of 430 attending either JMU or GMU with the lowest WEIGHTED GPA around 3.14.  And money is likely a factor as well.

UVA just announced its Echols Scholars (offered to about 5% of incoming first years) for its early admits and TJ seems to have an outsize # in its 2018 class.  [/quote]
My DC was offered Echols from her FCPS school.  It seems like a nice perk, but comes with no $$$, so DC will probably attend elsewhere.[/quote]

Any opinion on whether VCU, JMU, GMU are great schools to get into after attending TJ?! Do they require the rigor that is TJ?

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Great schools?  Nope. Bad options for the bottom 10% of the class? Nope. Do their general colleges require TJ level rigor? Again, nope. But VCU 6 year med school does. And GMU has an excellent and well regarded CS department. [/quote]

Seriously? I have not heard that. It’s not on any of the rankings of top computer science colleges.[/quote]

GMU is not as well known for CS, no. BUT they do have a strong program. It attracts a lot of minority / low SES students. Personal experience here, recruiting programmers out of GMU--so far, all excellent, mostly latino, whose parents could not afford to send them elsewhere and many of whom worked to put themselves through college. Some were caring for sick relatives while attending college, so had to be close by. Very strong work ethic, and very talented folks.

It's hard to see outside your bubble of privilege to try to understand why a student may choose GMU even if they had other options. But that doesn't mean that graduates of schools that are not nationally well-recognized are somehow inferior. I would call it a hidden gem, actually.[/quote]

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