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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only read the first few pages of this post, but as a JMU grad, the comparisons between JMU and Tech are interesting. When I graduated high school (90, so a long time ago!) JMU was quite superior to Tech academically (engineering the exception then also). Interesting to hear that they are even or maybe Tech is a bit above JMU now in overall academics. I grew up in VA and our top top students from highs school all went UVA or WM, darn near close to top went to JMU and the above average kids went to Tech. VCU and Radford were much easier to get into. In 5 years or so I'll be looking at this again for my kids but good to know how things change.

I can say that JMU was an absolutely amazing place to go to college. Such a friendly campus, fun students, plenty of parties and plenty of space to be yourself. [/quote]

I find this surprising.  I went to college in the 80's, in the sciences (not engineering).  I guess it depends on the major.  Sure, you do not go to tech for an english major, but in the sciences it was much better than JMU.[/quote]

+1  The admissions profile and ranking for JMU has not been higher than VTech any time in the last 4 decades at least.  Now that doesn't tell you what some high school students *thought* at the time, especially pre-internet. Maybe if you and your friends weren't primarily science-oriented, VTech wouldn't be as much on your radar and JMU at that time was the "better" school from that perspective.  I think the really interesting thing now is that looking at the common data set, at this point GMU is now slightly harder to get into than JMU--and its average GPA, SAT, and ACT are all marginally higher.  I think that's the real surprise in recent years:  JMU isn't in the running with VTech anymore, it's in competition with GMU.  But I don't think it's because JMU has "slipped" more the explosive growth of GMU.  That said, as others have noted, among NOVA students there may be a bit of a bias against GMU because it's too close to home. JMU is also cheaper. But students graduating from GMU have much higher average starting salaries than JMU, so maybe from a financial standpoint, it's a tie also?[/quote]

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