Re: College Transfer
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
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Date: April 23, 2008 08:24PM
coffin Wrote:
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> There was an article in the Post the other day
> saying that JMU is no longer a "safe" school
> (automatic acceptance for Va high schoolers). It
> seems that this whiz-kid from Robinson got the
> thin envelope, shocking everybody involved. (The
> NVCC "contract" thing might be an advantage.)
>
> Reasons given were that applications to JMU are
> way up, because parents are strapped, credit cards
> and HELOCS are maxed out, so Junior can't go to
> the way more expensive out-of-state schools. At
> the same time, JMU is not reducing the slots
> reserved for out-of-state students because, well,
> they pay the bills.
>
> It's only going to get worse as home values
> decline...ma and pa just can't borrow the bucks
> anymore.
The difference is this guy will be going in as a Junior or second semester Sophomore. The bottleneck is for incoming Freshmen. Probably 1/4 to 1/3 of Freshmen drop out of school, making it easier to get in as a Sophomore.