<p>sweetsaz, the people are AWESOME at JMU. I adore that school! In case you couldn't tell from my last post. lol</p>
<p>Santo, have you considered Northeastern for journalism? Might be a good choice for you.</p>
<p>Northwestern and UNC Chapel Hill out of state are both extremely competitive programs to get into. If Syracuse is a reach for you (as I recall you saying on the other thread), neither would be realistic options. Just to give you an idea of Northwestern's overall stats: 33% overall acceptance rate, 82% of applicants were in top 10% of their high school class, verbal 25-75 percentile: 640-730, Math 660-750, combined 1300-1480. Out of state applicants to UNC's journalism program would need similar stats, although there are, of course exceptions.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind: out of state students at public universities are unlikely to get good financial aid. There are exceptions to this rule, but, in general, out of state students at publics tend to get financial aid packages heavy on loans and work study and weak on grants.</p>
<p>re: JMU keep in mind that for oos minus a car, transportation home on a couple of the 3 day weekends are tough. Check out the posts on the alphabetic list of colleges. I asked about it. The airport is over 2 hours away. There isn't public bus transportation and they closed down the Greyhound station in Harrisonburg and Dulles. I love everything else about JMU. Also, at JMU there is little diversity, but around 30% are oos.</p>
<p>Yea, Im definately considering Northeastern and Emerson. When I go to Boston to check them out, I might check out BU as well.</p>
<p>To A2wolves:
Thats good, really good to hear. I like colleges that take pride on their teams. Im not really interested in UMich, more in Michigan State. I've heard nothing but excellent things about it.</p>
<p>What about the University Of Connecticut? They have a high number of OOS students and its ranked highly on the Princenton Review.</p>
<p>Damn straight, JMU rocks my metaphorical socks :). </p>
<p>Santo, consider it? Lacking diversity, but well-ranked (if that's what you like) and friendly, friendly, FRIENDLY people.</p>
<p>Santo, UCONN is a good school. Nice campus too. I saw a lot of campus spirit.
It is somewhat larger than JMU. I think it is more diverse than JMU. It will also be easier for you to get home from UCONN. Both are good schools though, with very nice campuses.</p>
<p>I have family that went to UCONN. I can't tell you much about it except one really liked it and one transferred. :) I didn't know it was that hard to leave JMU (if you WANTED to ;) ), but I do know that JMU has kids from everywhere and theres a carpooling thing thats getting really big nowadays (you know, with those lovely gas prices and all) and you just put your request to leave in- you hang it on a board in your respective zone in one of the student areas and someone will contact you about riding with them. Of course you WILL be trusting your life to someone who may be an absolute stranger. One of my friends that goes there had an interesting experience. lol. anyway just thought i'd let you know about that</p>
<p>Thanks the UCONN comments northeastmom and illnevergetin.</p>
<p>Your welcome. I hope it helps you.</p>
<p>Connecticut is a part of the NEBHE (New England Board of Higher Education), and lots of their OOS students are from the NE area, where they aren't necessarily viewed and discredited as OOS students. It's hard to get into from OOS, nearly every Pubic is, which is why considering your in-state school and OOS privates is reccommended.</p>
<p>We are from NJ and many kids get into UCONN from high schools in our area. S's GC thinks UCONN is a match school. They will have mostly kids from NE, but they will accept kids from mid-atlantic states and elsewhere for geographic diversity. I would think you need at least a 1200 on the sat to have a decent chance from oos. The range is 530-630v, 550-650m.</p>
<p>Scattergrams on UCONN:</p>
<p>Md.public hs: 12 apps 8 accepted, 4 rejected (2 had below 3.0 and 2 had below 1200)</p>
<p>NJ Catholic hs: 13 apps, 3 deferred and 2 rejected (2 had above 3.5 and around 1200, 3 had below 1150 and around 3.3.). They also accepted 2 students well below their average stats (one had an sat of below 900 and below a 2.5, one had sat around 1000 and around a 3.2).</p>
<p>As many people have noted, state colleges give priority to state residents, as they should. It is not a "ridiculous" policy. Some states do go overboard, like North Carolina, Texas and Washington, by requiring a very high ratio of residents among the undergraduate student body. Hey, this is what they get from the politicians whom they elected (and whom cut the budgets of their flagship universities; all politics is local, yall!!!).</p>
<p>Therefore Northeastmom, you'll have a very difficult time getting your papoose admitted to UNC-CH as he/she competes in a separate category and fewer seats with other stellar pupils from around the nation. You may want to consider other public universities that have excellent programs but for various (and at times non-important) reasons are easier for OSS to get into than their flagship counterparts;</p>
<p>U of Texas Arlington
U of Alabama Birmingham
U of North Carolina Wilmington
George Mason University (VA)
U of Pittsburgh
Georgia State University
Colorado State University</p>
<p>LakeWashington, Thanks for the advice, but my son is not applying to UNC-Chapel Hill. He is not going further south than Va. I think your post is accurate about UNC and maybe helpful to the original poster.</p>