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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you serious?  I went to JMU. I am not from Virginia and there were tons of kids from NJ and NY there. We also had numerous West Coast kids too. Of course it's primarily kids from VA but you have to be joking if you think only people from VA have heard of it. [/quote]

It's a regional school.  Sure, some people who have ties to the region and live outside the region, or people who research into schools with a particular major or who research schools in a certain area will hear about and know about it, but outside of Virginia, the name recognition for the school will plummet.  I grew up in Pennsylvania and had never heard of the school.  I came to Baltimore for college and didn't hear about it until some friends from Virginia talked about it.  I heard more about it when I moved to the DC suburbs.  But you hear more about it the closer you get to the school.  It does not have national name recognition at all.

As someone else pointed out, this is try of any regional school.[/quote]

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