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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, not going to JMU for free, just at in-state tuition rates.

Oh yes, definitely a lot of red flags with the neighbor kid. I too have serious doubts about this kid, for a lot of reasons.

I am not that enthusiastic about JMU. However, I don't discount it as a "degree mill."   It's what is available to NOVA folks since UVA/VT/W&M is becoming less available to us.

[b]BTW, JMU said that they had 12 graduates entering  MD programs in 2016 (which is what I could find via Google): [/b]

So it's not 5 kids per year.  And during the 2002-2012 period, JMU grads went to the likes of Yale, UVA, Tufts, BU, UCLA, Georgetown, GWU.  Some other schools that aren't name brand. But they are still medical schools.
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5 to 12 is about what I'd assume. That's out of 22,000 undergraduates. And how many of the 5 to 12 are URMs and first generation college students, i.e. highly hooked medical school applicants. Probably all of them.[/quote]

Medical schools are stat driven for admissions.  You need a high MCAT and GPA to be admitted.  JMU is simply going to have a lower percentage of undergraduate kids that get high stats compared to schools like UVA and W&M, which will result in fewer applying and fewer getting admitted.   In a recent year, JMU had 67 apply to medical school vs 155 for W&M and 393 for UVA.  So over 9% of each class is applying to medical school at UVA and W&M vs. about 1.3% at JMU.  (In comparison, JHU had 455 applying, which is about 29% or a graduating class.)  According to the URL shared for JMU pre-med, the acceptance rate is about 44% for Allopathic medical schools for JMU over the 2002-2010 period.  According to their pre-med websites, the recent ranges for UVA has been 60%-52% acceptance rate per year (to at least one medical school) and W&M 65%-50%.  (In comparison, Penn reported 80% acceptance in 2020.)

But the rub is better students tend to attend better schools, so this is simply to be expected.  I suspect the actual value of the school in the acceptance equation is limited.

https://www.aamc.org/media/9636/download

https://www.jmu.edu/iihhs/_files/MDaccept02.pdf[/quote]

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