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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cool , it's funny that gmu is better and all the rage to get into jmu back back in the 90s.

Crazy that all the work to go to jmu is now in the toilet[/quote]

No dog in this race (my kid got into both, and went to neither), but JMU is harder to get into than GMU.  GMU gets tons of applications, including from kids that don't apply to JMU because they know it's tougher to get into.  [/quote]

Gmu has a lower acceptance rate[/quote]

Because it gets applications from more marginal local candidates....which is pretty much universally understood among HS students around here. [/quote]

But the point is not from LANGLEY.  the Langley kids are competing against each other for these slots in UVA, W&M, JMU, GMU.  So its the Naviance scattergram from Langley that counts towards being helpful, not overall stats.  If I remember correctly, you need a 3.5 or better, AP courses, and 29-32 on ACTs.  You can't look at a national scattergram and say "hey my kid has a good chance of getting in" if you at in a NOVA high school.  There are too few slots available for NoVA kids.  Some legislation has been introduced to allot another 1,000 seats to Va. candidates, but that's a drop in the bucket when you consider that's spread amongst 23 colleges all over the state.  It also doesn't help the Langley and other NoVa high schools where the kids are competing against one another for the restricted slots.  It's a lot easier to get into any VA school an an OOS than in-state, and certainly harder from McLean, Langley, etc.  [/quote]

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