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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.  [b]And those OOS students at UVA are wicked smart -- a lot smarter than what you'll find at JMU[/b]. [/quote]

Based on what metric exactly? I guess we will just take your word for it.

This may be a factor for OOS students. Maybe the smarter ones are those paying over $100k less for a degree.
UVA OOS - $65k
JMU OOS - $$39k

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Only because JMU's reputation isn't strong enough for it to charge higher OOS tuition.  There's not one out of state student at JMU who wouldn't rather be at UVA.  UVA's 25th percentile on the SAT (1330) is 50 points higher than JMU's 75th (1280).  That's why JMU doesn't really stand for Just Missed UVA.  There's simply no overlap bewteen the student bodies at these schools in terms of academic qualifications.[/quote]

With every one of your posts, your proving yourself even more insufferable than we initially thought.  There are TONS of OOS students at JMU who absolutely hoped to go there as their first choice.  I have two kids who went there and most of their friends were OOS.  It's a very desirable school.  Maybe not for you and your ilk, but most definitely for plenty of others.  You're really making an utter ass of yourself here, and I can only imagine what you're like IRL.  [/quote]

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