VT vs JMU for Poli Sci/ Pre Law

Hello! I’m still waiting on UVA I got deferred so there is still a chance. I don’t think i’ll get in but if I did I would probably go there.

JMU

- Poli Sci major I haven’t looked into their minors or anything

- 11,647 per year in aid

- 4,900 work study

- cheaper overall total

- not the type of student body i want/as a virginian ive heard about how easy it is to get into drugs there (please correct me)

- didn’t love campus/hburg

- i think i could grow to love the school 100% tho

- checks all my requirements for what i wanted in college (football team, not tiny, spirit, resources for students, farther from home)

VT

- Poli Sci major, history minor and appalachia studies minor

- my whole family is from appalachia and i really love what this minor does with outreach + history of the region

- 9,400 per year in aid

- 5,000 work study

- roughly 4,000 per year more than jmu

- still not the student body i want but there’s not a school that specifically has that so it’s okay

- great great location, i’m from the county and hburg is a scary big city

- absolutely loved campus love love loved it

- is my top/dream school and only place i can see myself

I have an outside 15k scholarship per year, which makes jmu basically free and VT basically 5k. I don’t think either school has given out scholarships that you had to apply to through the scholarship portal/gsa. So there could be some there.

JMU is just cheaper overall and that’s very important especially as I want to go to law school. But I don’t want to go there… if JMU’s poli sci program stands out though I would give it more thought, but I already am because of the aid they gave.