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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

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Trying so hard to seem above it all but failing miserably.

Why would I be aware of a not highly ranked school in a state I did not live when I was applying to Top 25 schools? The insistence that JMU was well known 30 years ago is just bizarre. It's in a small town in central VA--nowhere near DC. Where would I have heard of it?

The more you post, the sillier you look. I also went to high school 30 years ago, but in NoVA. JMU was one of the most talked about, popular schools at that time, and guess what - still is - for VA students, mid-Atlantic students (and that includes MD and DC, btw) and in the past couple of decades, students from other states as well. Look, we get it. You want everyone to know you went to a "top school" and applied only to "top 25 schools." You can sit down now. No one cares about your weird insistence that you are somehow above average. Which kind of begs the question - why are you on this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

Maybe. We didn't have the internet and I went to a top school where no one was talking about JMU. My parents weren't from VA and I didn't have close friends who lived in the VA suburbs. Probably more elitist than clueless, but same result.

At least you have a tiny bit of self-awareness.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:I went to IU for undergrad. I am from the DMV and loved IU!

Great campus, sports, and college town. A popular school for kids from the east coast (MD, VA, NJ, NY, PA).

How easy/hard is it to get there and back from this area?

I graduated over 10 years ago so things might have changed but it was easy! Direct flights from DC to Indy and there was a shuttle that took students from the airport right to campus. The bus dropped students off at different spots on campus. There was a fee but it wasn't too bad. My family drove me there at the beginning of the year and we drove home at the end of the school year. 10ish hours to drive but it's a very easy drive.

thanks, DS is adding IU to his "soft target" list (we don't say "safeties" anymore)

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Anonymous wrote:I went to IU for undergrad. I am from the DMV and loved IU!

Great campus, sports, and college town. A popular school for kids from the east coast (MD, VA, NJ, NY, PA).

How easy/hard is it to get there and back from this area?

I graduated over 10 years ago so things might have changed but it was easy! Direct flights from DC to Indy and there was a shuttle that took students from the airport right to campus. The bus dropped students off at different spots on campus. There was a fee but it wasn't too bad. My family drove me there at the beginning of the year and we drove home at the end of the school year. 10ish hours to drive but it's a very easy drive.

Anonymous wrote:I went to IU for undergrad. I am from the DMV and loved IU!

Great campus, sports, and college town. A popular school for kids from the east coast (MD, VA, NJ, NY, PA).

How easy/hard is it to get there and back from this area?

I went to IU for undergrad. I am from the DMV and loved IU!

Great campus, sports, and college town. A popular school for kids from the east coast (MD, VA, NJ, NY, PA).

I first heard of JMU when oldest DD attended a summer Nike Volleyball camp there.

Anonymous wrote:Even 30+ years ago, if you lived in the DMV and hadn’t heard of JMU, you must have been living under a rock.

No, I didn’t go there, but it was on my radar as a VA public university like ODU, CNU, UMW, VCU, Radford, Longwood, GMU, UVA, or VT.

good for you. as others have said here, they were out living their lives and VA's 4th ranked public (2 cliff falls after #1,2 & #3) college just did not come up. And yet, these people survived 30 more years!

Anonymous wrote:Even 30+ years ago, if you lived in the DMV and hadn’t heard of JMU, you must have been living under a rock.

No, I didn’t go there, but it was on my radar as a VA public university like ODU, CNU, UMW, VCU, Radford, Longwood, GMU, UVA, or VT.

and W&M.

Even 30+ years ago, if you lived in the DMV and hadn’t heard of JMU, you must have been living under a rock.

No, I didn’t go there, but it was on my radar as a VA public university like ODU, CNU, UMW, VCU, Radford, Longwood, GMU, UVA, or VT.

Insulting other commenters for saying they had never heard of JMU until recently seems like a pointless digression when all the current college ranking systems rank Indiana much higher than they do JMU. It's not a matter of one person's subjective or out of date opinion.

That's not a slight at JMU, but generally unless there's some specific financial or geographic or subject matter reason to do otherwise, most students try to go to the school where they'll get the better/best education and have the strongest career payoff.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

+1
Trying so hard to seem above it all but failing miserably.

Why would I be aware of a not highly ranked school in a state I did not live when I was applying to Top 25 schools? The insistence that JMU was well known 30 years ago is just bizarre. It's in a small town in central VA--nowhere near DC. Where would I have heard of it?

Lol, you are definitely showing, not telling here.

Did they teach that at your T25?

Showing that pre-internet I did not know about random public universities not in my state? Did you have an encyclopedic knowledge of publics ranked 5-10 in their state university systems all over the country 30 years ago? Weird 90s flex but ok.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

+1
Trying so hard to seem above it all but failing miserably.

Why would I be aware of a not highly ranked school in a state I did not live when I was applying to Top 25 schools? The insistence that JMU was well known 30 years ago is just bizarre. It's in a small town in central VA--nowhere near DC. Where would I have heard of it?

Lol, you are definitely showing, not telling here.

Did they teach that at your T25?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

Maybe. We didn't have the internet and I went to a top school where no one was talking about JMU. My parents weren't from VA and I didn't have close friends who lived in the VA suburbs. Probably more elitist than clueless, but same result.

DP and I was on the opposite end of the spectrum. I grew up lower middle class and college was a luxury. I met DH at a branch campus of the nearest college and we worked and went to school at night/weekend and then went on to law school 4-5 nights a week.
People need to get out of their bubble or hurt feelings to think we sat around discussing, comparing, researching or caring about colleges, (expect maybe the very top powerhouse sports on TV that we'd happen to watch).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside of the DMV has heard of JMU.

This is NOT true.

I had not even heard of it until I was at UVA. Grew up in DC and literally had never heard of it.

Sorry, but as a DC native who is roughly the same age, this makes you sound clueless.

+1
Trying so hard to seem above it all but failing miserably.

Why would I be aware of a not highly ranked school in a state I did not live when I was applying to Top 25 schools? The insistence that JMU was well known 30 years ago is just bizarre. It's in a small town in central VA--nowhere near DC. Where would I have heard of it?