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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, I think there are spots at state schools for VA students - many just feel anything below JMU is too crappy for THEIR child ;p

God forbid their snowflake have to consider Mason, VCU, UMW or CNU

Longwood, Radford or ODU? Oh, the horror![/quote]

This is so true.  My friend was really mad/frustrated that her kid (3.0 -- FCPS) did not get into VT or JMU (non-stem).  Kid/parents were not willing to consider GMU, UMW, VCU, Rad, or anything else in VA.  So, they, like many others, ended up at WVU.  The big-rah-rah U atmosphere was really important to them ... more than the academics or financial side of it.

To be fair, I think a lot of other states have big-rah-rah-Universities that pretty much anyone with a 3.0 and above can go to.  In the case of VA, that would be GMU and VCU --- it's just that GMU doesn't have a football team  or college-town aspect to it.  And VCU doesn't have that dedicated sense of location/college town.  So, I do understand why people really want their kids to go to UVA, VT, and JMU.  But, a 3.0 isn't going to cut it... and it's crazy when parents think it should be a legit option.[/quote]

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I really don't think a 3.0 would cut it at either GMU or VCU though.[/quote]

I know of several kids who got into VCU with a 3.0. One even had a 2.9. Just regular students with nothing “special to offer the school.[/quote]

Well perhaps they were unbeknownst to you first generation because the 75th percentile of accepted students last year had a 4.12; median had a 3.88 and bottom 25th of the class had a 3.31[/quote]

VCU is not that hard to get into and I have no idea why you are trying to convince me that it is.[/quote]

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