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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does she want to study? Will she be in large classes? Is the major guaranteed on acceptance or does it weed-out? Is she an organized self-starter? Can she double-check any info she’s given at a large school (think Penn State or VT)? Does she need a smaller world with less anonymity and smaller classes? Maybe JMU. At the big schools you can always find your people, but sometimes it takes longer. [b]At the smaller schools, it feels claustrophobic sooner.[/b] What does she need to start college ?[/quote]

IMO, this would apply more to the actual small schools, like less than 5,000. JMU is over 20,000 students on a fairly large campus that bleeds into the town. Lots of open space with mountain views. An arboretum you can walk around in if you want to "get away."

My kid didn't have clue 1 what she wanted in a school or what she should look for or where to start. We finally arranged two visits: one at a school of 1500 and then JMU. Before we even left JMU, she had decided the first school was too small. She determined she did not want a school smaller than her high school; but more importantly, she was afraid if she didn't find friends at the really small school, she would feel very isolated whereas if she didn't find friends at JMU, she would not feel so isolated because there was still a lot of activity going on around her. (I'm not wording it well...she articulated it much better). In the end, she didn't want "too small or too big." Never got a definition for "too big" but JMU is apparently neither too small nor too big for her.[/quote]

DP.  This is exactly the thought process my DC had!  Loves JMU and has found his people there.[/quote]

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