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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you share any real life current info about your kids' experiences at Virginia colleges, not UVA, W&M, VATech or JMU?  Through the years I've just never gotten any sense of the other Virginia colleges and I'm curious to hear about them.  With rising junior B/G twins, I know we'll be taking the tours this year.  Thanks.  [/quote]

I would put JMU bellow GMU.

GMU 51.7% accepted
JMU 59.9% accepted

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/george-mason-university-3749
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/jmu-3721
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You're dreaming. % acceptance rate does not equate to "harder to get in." You would have to include the amount of applicants, which is information that is not provided.
If a school has 100 students, but only 100 students happened to apply, then it has a 100% acceptance rate. Does that mean it's a worse school? Of course not, it just means that it had fewer applicants.

Everyone and their brother applies to GMU (since it is a lot of people's "Safety School"). With all of those applicants, they have to say "no" to more people. That does not make it a "Better" school.

GMU is a factory with 1000s of applicants. I did 2 years at GMU and then tranferred to JMU. GMU is essentially a good community college.
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