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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14 years from now there will be fewer universities still operating.  JMU is obviously planning to remain one of the ones still operating.  So, they are targeting areas of improvement that will allow them to be around in 2040.  Wise move with reasonable goals.  [/quote]

Lower acceptance rate doesn't really go along with fewer universities. And which VA colleges would have to close to support funding their pet project of tripling housing capacity? [/quote]

There are already certain VA schools no one wants to attend.  Is that JMU’s fault?  Makes more sense to close the ones that are losing students year after year.[/quote]

+1. JMU is a very popular school and serves a lot of bright kids who are shut out of UVA and WM. [/quote]

But there are many JMU students who aren't UVA/WM shutouts and [b]it's a shame that future students like them will have to attend schools like ODU/Radford/GMU [/b]instead because the administration chose to chase shutouts. Unless that 40% acceptance rate involves yield protect that's what this all screams to me[/quote]

Why is it a shame?[/quote]

Because a high schooler who really want to go to JMU does not want to go to these. A JMU student wants the "traditional college experience" that's why their football program has caused them to blow up so much. At that point you might as well just go to CC for a year instead and then transfer [/quote]

Are you kidding me? Are you truly equating Radford/ODU and GMU with the CC experience?  You are the problem!!![/quote]

No I'm saying it's not worth their time to go to schools they won't be happy at. Please re-read what I said before getting angry. [/quote]

How do three year olds know where they’re going to be happy? This is a plan for 2040.[/quote]

Honestly - why are you being so defensive? What's your angle here? DD rejected from UVA and so you want the future prestige boost? I don't understand what's to gain by making JMU serve the just missed students instead of the people that always had it as their first choice.

Someone who wants to go to to a college with football and a residential culture wouldn't be too happy at a bunch of commuter schools. Or living at home as many DMV area GMU students do. [/quote]

ODU has a football team. [/quote]

ODU lacks the residential culture and is basically the Mason of Hampton Roads. The other poster has a point. JMU will never pass UVA, so why squeeze out the kids that actually want to be there. They are better off being a school with average students that are thrilled to be there.

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