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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big companies still go to all of these schools

After your first job no one cares where you went to school anyway

I went to JMU 10 years ago and I had a lot of fun

Now I make over 6 figures and I would have done just as well as any of the other colleges on this list[/quote]

Again, we know that.  There's nothing wrong with JMU.  I'm just saying that if you're from NOVA and truly are a borderline UVA admit, as was my daughter, it can be a let down to have to go there.  Her high school probably sent two or three dozen kids there, including some good friends, none of whom performed as well as she did academically.  [/quote]

2017-2018 Freshman Enrollment from Fairfax County

GMU - 1,031
VT - 959
UVA - 680
JMU - 600

More likely to run into kids from your same high school at UVA than JMU.[/quote]

I'm not the poster who said JMU is high school 2.0.  The point is that our daughter was a better student than the two or three dozen of her classmates who went to JMU, and she wanted something better for her efforts.[/quote]

I'm the poster who said people might go OOS to avoid high school 2.0.  I didn't mean literally that you'll see the same folks as those in your high school all the time, but rather the population will reflect a lot students with similar backgrounds as you knew in high school.  I actually think this  is MORE true at UVA, GMU and W&M which are more NOVA-heavy than JMU. [/quote]

Blah blah blah.  Here are the actual numbers:

UVA:  out of state 33 percent
JMU:  out of state 27 percent

UVA from Fairfax/Loudoun/Arlington:  26 percent
JMU:  23 percent

So, both more out of state at UVA and more from NOVA.  A wash out.  And those OOS students at UVA are wicked smart -- a lot smarter than what you'll find at JMU. [/quote]

I think I'm not being clear. My argument was that for some students going to an in-state school feels like high school 2.0--compared to venturing out to the midwest, south, or west coast--or even just another eastern state.    In my  initial post, I suggested that a student who didn't get into UVA or W&M might go out of state over JMU, not because a school is so much better but because one factor they consider is that an out-of-state school feels more different than high school.  When people asked what I meant by that, thinking I was saying something specific about JMU being particularly "high school 2.0" -- I was clarifying that it was more about any in-state public being more similar to one's high school than an OOS school.  In VA for many public schools, about a 1/4 or more of students come from NOVA and that can give it a certain familiar feel. (For instance, I've heard this about W&M--a feeling that it's NOVA heavy).  I'm not saying anything about how smart anyone is or how amazing a school is. My kid will opt to go to UVA or W&M if he gets in (his stats of 4.3/1400 put him in the running for both--but not sure thing).  But if he doesn't get in, he wants to go out of state (there are places where he's likely to get merit aid) just for the experience of being in another state over going to JMU or VTech.  We're able to provide 30k/yr wherever he goes so he has to figure out how to make the financial part work.  [/quote]

Thanks for clarifying.  Now I understand, and I totally agree.  In fact, that was my daughter's thinking in a nutshell.[/quote]

I agree that some kids just want to experience something new or get out of Dodge for a bit.  I did that for graduate school.

In an ideal world we wouldn't be as focused on rankings and more focused on fit, but most of us are that way by nature.[/quote]

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