Anonymous wrote:DC is East Asian, has struggled with learning issues, but wants to go to college. GPA will be around 2.7, possibly 3.0. They want to go somewhere with at least 15-20% East Asian students. We’re in VA and money is a big consideration.

Community college! It’s so underrated or worse, looked down on here but it’s great option. DC can then transfer after knocking out lower level classes. Will save a ton of $$.

The other option is Radford. Ton of support and affordable.

Look at SUNY Stoney Brook.

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Anonymous wrote:What about a California state college? Or do you want him closer to home?

OP said money is a big issue.

There are a lot of in state alternatives in VA, below GMU, JMU. They can go to one of those.

Or, go to your local community college and transfer. That might be the better option for a kid who has learning issues.

CSUs out of state tuition is around 19k.

Try 40k. That 19k doesn’t include room & board.

I believe a great majority of Asians don't attend ivies, equivalents, or even T50. They mostly attend state universities. I'd not be surprised if community colleges in and near a large Asian population have a high percentage of Asians.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU folks are pretending really hard that they are above GMU VCU
LOL

JMU folks are not necessarily "above" GMU and VCU, but that is the current admission reality right now. Right now, it is harder to get admitted to JMU than to GMU/VCU. Sorry that bothers you.

There's pretty much no difference among JMU, GMU, and VCU.
https://research.schev.edu/enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.ASP

GMU students even have higher median SAT scores 1240 vs 1230 JMU
How much harder could it be with an 80% acceptance rate? Lol.

It's embarrassing to associate JMU with being "harder to get admitted."
Stop embarrassing yourself.

The acceptance rate for GMU is 90%. The acceptance rate for JMU is 77%. The acceptance rate for VCU is 91%.

JMU rejects more applicants and is a little harder to get into than GMU and VCU.

My 3.0 kid was rejected at JMU and GMU.

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Anonymous wrote:Same place underachieving kids of other colors:

Community college, VCU, Norfolk Stare, UMW, James Madison U, etc

You will not get into any of these schools, outside Norfolk state with a 3.0

A POC with a 3.0 can absolutely get into JMU.

First out from under the rock? You missed a few things.

1: The Supreme Court won't allow universities to use race or ethnicity anymore
2: The Common App has made receiving that data optional
3: No university is ever going to touch that data again. There is line of lawyers wrapped around the building just dying for a crack

So JMU won't know if Brian Smith is POC or not.

Welcome to 2023. Hope you enjoyed your nap!

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Colleges will absolutely be admitting X number of URMs, regardless. Probably for free. You are extremely naive and uneducated to think otherwise.

But JMU has enough above 3.0 students to choose from than one below 3.0. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Same place underachieving kids of other colors:

Community college, VCU, Norfolk Stare, UMW, James Madison U, etc

You will not get into any of these schools, outside Norfolk state with a 3.0

A POC with a 3.0 can absolutely get into JMU.

First out from under the rock? You missed a few things.

1: The Supreme Court won't allow universities to use race or ethnicity anymore
2: The Common App has made receiving that data optional
3: No university is ever going to touch that data again. There is line of lawyers wrapped around the building just dying for a crack

So JMU won't know if Brian Smith is POC or not.

Welcome to 2023. Hope you enjoyed your nap!

Don't worry, I'll make sure my kids mentions it on their College Essay.

Ewwwww...highly immoral to encourage your kid to actively participate in discrimination/racism.

Anonymous wrote:Where do underachieving East Asian kids go to college?
In VA, mostly JMU, GMU, VCU

+1. In-state very likely also will be the lower cost options.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. What on earth does this kid’s race have to do with anything?

Because this is a racist country. Asians, especially East Asians are subject to much higher standards in college admissions, relative to other races. That's why.

Oh, stop. The only kid who got into Stanford and Princeton at our school was Asian.

Did you even graduate high school with this kind of critical thinking (or lack thereof) or is this how America has become?

NVCC.

Look, in these days you should recognize some things:

a. Massive grade inflation means that you are screwing something up if you get a GPA lower than 3.0.

b. Whatever the cause of the screw-ups -- low IQ, learning disability, laziness, ADHD, anxiety, overconfidence, poor health, whatever -- is not going to magically resolve itself by sending a kid to an expensive college.

c. College degrees on the low end are typically worth the paper they're printed on, and spending a hundred thousand dollars or more to get that piece of paper is a bad idea.

If you want to try college, try something easy, that works with the kind of students that don't do that well, costs relatively little money, located very close by where you can offer support.

East Asian kids are people.

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Anonymous wrote:GMU. Lots of "regular" Asians there. Not everyone wants to be an Engineer!

CS is big for Asians at GMU

^This. My kid graduated in CS from GMU in ‘22 and got a 150K paying job offer prior to graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. What on earth does this kid’s race have to do with anything?

Because this is a racist country. Asians, especially East Asians are subject to much higher standards in college admissions, relative to other races. That's why.

Oh, stop. The only kid who got into Stanford and Princeton at our school was Asian.

Perhaps your single observation refute a large body of literature (e.g. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31527)? Or perhaps that asian kid had to be much better than a similar white applicant and you're denying institutional racism because of an exceptional outcome?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. What on earth does this kid’s race have to do with anything?

Because this is a racist country. Asians, especially East Asians are subject to much higher standards in college admissions, relative to other races. That's why.

Oh, stop. The only kid who got into Stanford and Princeton at our school was Asian.

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Anonymous wrote:Same place underachieving kids of other colors:

Community college, VCU, Norfolk Stare, UMW, James Madison U, etc

You will not get into any of these schools, outside Norfolk state with a 3.0

A POC with a 3.0 can absolutely get into JMU.

First out from under the rock? You missed a few things.

1: The Supreme Court won't allow universities to use race or ethnicity anymore
2: The Common App has made receiving that data optional
3: No university is ever going to touch that data again. There is line of lawyers wrapped around the building just dying for a crack

So JMU won't know if Brian Smith is POC or not.

Welcome to 2023. Hope you enjoyed your nap!

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Colleges will absolutely be admitting X number of URMs, regardless. Probably for free. You are extremely naive and uneducated to think otherwise.

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The racists will never give up on their little social experiment.