<p>Yes, I forgot Va. Tech. Also, there are a bunch of other good VA. public schools.</p>
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<p>Yea, but they are starving the system to death. The lack of adequate state support is one of the reasons that CWM and UVA take in some many out of state students.</p>
<p>I would hazard a guess that if an applicant was exceptionally strong in an area such as music that a deficit in the lab sciences or foreign language would not prevent them from being accepted at JMU. I doubt that there are any "absolutes". VA has a wide variety of diplomas; as a parent it's challenging to make sure the student is meeting the requirements!</p>
<p>Northern Virginia and coastal Virginia are highly populated and our schools cannot accomodate all of our qualified students with ease (lets not even get started on how so many of our fine student types are not admitted to our own selective colleges because we admit OOS by a third). JMU is not an easy admission really..viewing it as a 75th percentile is accurate, with allowances for special talents I am sure. We had a dear male friend with a 1350 SAT who was waitlisted due to a few too many Cs (not living up to his potential I suppose was their conclusion) when they could find kids with more consistency across the board. He was mistaken to consider JMU a safety is my point. JMU is also a fairly good mix of big partiers, serious kids, NOVAs from great high schools on the beltway, and fresh outdoorsy types, so students considering it should be ready for exerting some self discipline to stay on track.</p>
<p>faline, What you say about admissions is true. My son has met a lot, and I mean a lot, of instate students that were WL'd for UVA, and then chose JMU.</p>
<p>When we visited JMU and spoke with the admission rep for our state he gave us the distinct impression that you'd better have 4 lab sciences & 4 maths to be a competetive OOS canidate. I loved Randolph Macon and it would have been a perfect school for me...but didn't fit my D.</p>
<p>My son was admitted with 3 years of lab science, plus one year of non-lab science.</p>
<p>Nice story about JMU and one of their football coaches</p>