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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How easy?

In VA, VCU or GMU
In MD, Towson or UMBC

But these aren't 'open admissions' level of easy, [b]just not as competitive as some other state options[/b].[/quote]

True, but OP needs to know that the 75th percentile at GMU last fall had a 4.0 and a 30 ACT.  It's not as easy to get in to as some on DCUM think.  And it's the largest research university in the Commonwealth, so actually HUGE.  https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp[/quote]

Yes, I didn't know how to interpret their question-- whether it was somewhere between medium and large, or just bigger than 8k.  GMU has 27k undergraduates so a lot of its size comes from grad students. But, yes, it's very big.[/quote]

And while there are a lot of strong students at GMU-hence the high 75th percentile, it has a high acceptance rate--86%.  So you might be one of the weaker students in the school, but you can often still get in with a lower academic level.[/quote]

You must be looking at old stats. GMU’s acceptance rate for 2022 was 77 percent. But what you don’t know is that all VA university acceptance rates are high because students self select to apply to certain schools at the direction of their public high school counselors, whose job it is to show the student and parents the SCHEV scores and Naviance for their particular high schools. Students who aren’t UVA candidates are steered to those schools that are a better match = higher chance of getting in.  Even UVA and W&M’s acceptance scores are “ high” when compared to other privates attracting the same caliber of student. Always remember the high school counselor is a publicly available paid employee. Their credibility is on the line if they don’t do a good job of matching students to universities. And with SCHEV that matching is easily achieved [/quote]

This poster shows up on every thread about VA state colleges and says the same thing without backing any of it up.  I do think a 3.2 GPA is low for GMU though.  I'd look closely at VCU.  It's a great school and admissions standards are lower.[/quote]

Can you or anyone here say more about VCU? I feel like it’s rarely mentioned in this forum.
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Sure.  One of my kids graduated from VCU not too long ago.  She had a rough time getting through high school and ended up with truly terrible grades (nowhere near a 3.2) but had a very high SAT score.  Her sisters had gone to UVA but that was never in the cards for her and it would have been an awful fit anyway.

She loved VCU.  It's a large, urban, truly diverse school in a funky part of Richmond that offers pretty much any major or course of study that a kid could be interested in.  Its real strength is the fine arts, where it's known as one of the best schools in the country, but none of my kid's friends went that route -- not that I could tell you any of their majors.

One of my daughter's best friends at VCU was a UVA transfer who was too "artsy" for UVA.  My UVA daughter also had a good friend transfer from there to VCU for similar reasons.  They kept in touch and the kid was much happier at VCU.

They have a good basketball team that the kids like to root for, but it's not a sports-centric school generally.  It also has a greek system for those interested, but it's only a minor part of the school's social life.

I'd strongly recommend giving VCU a close look.  It has a lot to offer and in my opinion is grossly underrated.  I'd place it third in the Commonwealth after UVA and W&M, and admissions are far easier.     [/quote]

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