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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VA is definitely in the top 3 as far as public education at the college level.   Its second tier schools JMU, GMU, etc,  are better than a number of state flagships.  [/quote]

Berkeley, UCLA, and Michigan are clearly the top three.  UVA is number 5 now, below UNC. Try to keep up. [/quote]

Try to read.  The state of Virginia is in the top 3 states in the US with respect to public education options.  Schools like JMU and GMU are better options than Ole Miss or Mizzou.  [/quote]

Is JMU really better than Mizzou? [/quote]

In many rankings they are basically the same.  However, Mizzou is their state's Flagship.  JMU is largely considered the #4/5 school in VA.    [/quote]

I assume that means that there are probably some really smart kids at Mizzou since it’s the best public school in the state.  [/quote]

Just like there are some really smart kids at JMU.  Heck, there are really smart kids at UMW and VCU

Every university in the Top 200-300 has a decent group of "really smart kids".  And yes if your state flagship is only ranked "150" then the honors college will be filled with "really smart kids".

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There might be smart kids everywhere, but the cohort of really smart kids is bigger at Mizzou than at JMU, because in Virginia the top kids get skimmed off by UVA.

You can check the CDSs. Compared to JMU, more kids at Mizzou submit test scores (both by number and as a percent of the entering class), and the percent scoring over various benchmarks is also higher at Mizzou.[/quote]

If your really smart kid can only function well if surrounded by all equally "smart people" they might benefit from attending a more "academically diverse" school.  Fact is once they exit college, they will be surrounded by people of all levels.  Their colleagues likely graduated from a variety of universities, their boss might have even gone to a school like UMW or CNU or VCU or Towson or Salisbury.  They will need to learn to function while not surrounded by tippy top students.  [/quote]

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