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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is off topic but with all the people bashing the school, where you go to undergrad does not measure your success in life. One of our local orthodontists graduated from JMU, went to dental school at Temple, and orthodontist school at UMD.  She’s killing it with 5 locations, a family with 3 young boys, now only working one day a week. Her lawyer husband helps her run the business. I’d say JMU worked out just fine. [/quote]

Exactly. And I don’t have a kid at JMU - but it seems to be a school where the kids who go there feel overwhelmingly positive. My child’s dermatologist went there, and I know successful people in a range of fields that are happy alums. [b]I do think the name recognition is best in the DC area so that something to keep in mind but there’s no reason a kid can’t go to JMU and have a good life. [/b]

I do know of two kids rejected last year, one with a 3.7 weighted and one with a higher weighted gpa (close to 4 but not sure of exact number). Common thread to the extent there was one could be that neither had a lot of APs.[/quote]

The amount of condescension here is just ridiculous. How very generous of you to state “ there’s no reason a kid can’t go to JMU and have a good life.” My circle of JMU friends includes CEOs and business owners, CFOs, CIOs, JAG Corp, a hedge fund manager, and a plastic surgeon. Despite going to JMU, they are managing to just eke out a living and live what some may generously call “a good life.”[/quote]
[b]I love it when dumb-sses like you decide to air out your rock headedness for the world to see.[/b] NEWSFLASH: universities are not defined by the cream of the crop. They are not defined by the low of the low. There are geniuses who go to GMU and there are idiots who go to Harvard. Neither of these groups define either institution. The median student at any college is what sets the tone. [/quote]

Based on your grammar, I think we found the “low of the low.”

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It's perfectly grammatically correct. It's just informal and non-standard in its word choice/is using made-up words. If "rock-headed" were an adjective, "rock-headedness" would be perfectly correct. You probably mean word choice or something. Grammar refers to patterns/rules of language. Patterns are totally correct in the above text.[/quote]

Good grief.  Pedantic, much?  
DP[/quote]

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