JMU decisions out

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1370 SAT, 3.3 GPA DS - waitlisted

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Are you OOS?

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Are you OOS?

No. In state.

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Anonymous wrote:3.3 gpa from highly rigorous DC private, 28 ACT. Waitlisted. Completely shocked. This is nonsense. So mad right now.

I'm sorry. I'm also kind of surprised that your dc from a rigorous private got a 28 ACT with a good private school GPA!

28 is the 90th percentile for all test takers. JMU range for 50th is 24-29. It’s a strong score for JMU.

Especially since only 26% of JMU applicants submit scores! It's range is tilted upwards because 3/4 of the students with likely lower end of scores don't submit.

It doesn’t work like that.

You think kids with scores well above the 75% are deciding not to send them? Kids who go TO are almost always kids whose scores are or would have been generally at the average/lower end of the scores range.

Absolutely. My DDs too choice is VCU and she and her friends did not send in their 1400+ scores at the advice of counselor.

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Anonymous wrote:1370 SAT, 3.3 GPA DS - waitlisted [/quote

Are you OOS?

No. In state.

I think JMU simply uses a GPA cutoff and ignores everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:1370 SAT, 3.3 GPA DS - waitlisted [/quote

Are you OOS?

No. In state.

I think JMU simply uses a GPA cutoff and ignores everything else.

I don’t know if this is accurate. My OOS DD has a 1240 SAT; 3.7w gpa; a few honors but no APs; no school EC but an amazing essay and community service with the same org for 8 years and was accepted.

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Anonymous wrote:3.3 gpa from highly rigorous DC private, 28 ACT. Waitlisted. Completely shocked. This is nonsense. So mad right now.

I'm sorry. I'm also kind of surprised that your dc from a rigorous private got a 28 ACT with a good private school GPA!

28 is the 90th percentile for all test takers. JMU range for 50th is 24-29. It’s a strong score for JMU.

Especially since only 26% of JMU applicants submit scores! It's range is tilted upwards because 3/4 of the students with likely lower end of scores don't submit.

It doesn’t work like that.

You think kids with scores well above the 75% are deciding not to send them? Kids who go TO are almost always kids whose scores are or would have been generally at the average/lower end of the scores range.

Absolutely. My DDs too choice is VCU and she and her friends did not send in their 1400+ scores at the advice of counselor.

-1 Your anecdote aside, the data on this is crystal clear. When schools go test optional the students that tend to submit SAT scores are those who are on the higher side of the range.

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To the poster who wanted to know about the WL movement. Last year one of my DD's good friends got in during the summer (July)? She was already deposited and planning to attend Radford, when she got in. So yes, there is often a fair chance of movement.

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Anonymous wrote:3.3 gpa from highly rigorous DC private, 28 ACT. Waitlisted. Completely shocked. This is nonsense. So mad right now.

I'm sorry. I'm also kind of surprised that your dc from a rigorous private got a 28 ACT with a good private school GPA!

28 is the 90th percentile for all test takers. JMU range for 50th is 24-29. It’s a strong score for JMU.

Especially since only 26% of JMU applicants submit scores! It's range is tilted upwards because 3/4 of the students with likely lower end of scores don't submit.

It doesn’t work like that.

You think kids with scores well above the 75% are deciding not to send them? Kids who go TO are almost always kids whose scores are or would have been generally at the average/lower end of the scores range.

Absolutely. My DDs too choice is VCU and she and her friends did not send in their 1400+ scores at the advice of counselor.

Wow, absolutely terrible advice from the counselor. Glad it worked out for you, but this isn’t at all the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:3.3 gpa from highly rigorous DC private, 28 ACT. Waitlisted. Completely shocked. This is nonsense. So mad right now.

I'm sorry. I'm also kind of surprised that your dc from a rigorous private got a 28 ACT with a good private school GPA!

28 is the 90th percentile for all test takers. JMU range for 50th is 24-29. It’s a strong score for JMU.

Especially since only 26% of JMU applicants submit scores! It's range is tilted upwards because 3/4 of the students with likely lower end of scores don't submit.

It doesn’t work like that.

You think kids with scores well above the 75% are deciding not to send them? Kids who go TO are almost always kids whose scores are or would have been generally at the average/lower end of the scores range.

Absolutely. My DDs too choice is VCU and she and her friends did not send in their 1400+ scores at the advice of counselor.

What was the counselor's reasoning for this?

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Anonymous wrote:When JMU began using the Common App, they began to more vigorously waitlist or reject students that are high performing but JMU was 99.9% sure wouldn't come. So if your highly-qualified student didn't get in, they may be guessing that they weren't going to enroll anyway.

How would they know you and your kid's desires so well?

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Anonymous wrote:When JMU began using the Common App, they began to more vigorously waitlist or reject students that are high performing but JMU was 99.9% sure wouldn't come. So if your highly-qualified student didn't get in, they may be guessing that they weren't going to enroll anyway.

How would they know you and your kid's desires so well?

This is the same debunked theory of "yield protection" that was in the VT thread. It's just not a real thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone choose to go to JMU paying OOS tuition

OOS students love JMU. Why do some VA kids turn their nose up at it

Why do kids turn their nose up to VT or GMU or any other school?

my dd chose JMU over VT

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone choose to go to JMU paying OOS tuition

OOS students love JMU. Why do some VA kids turn their nose up at it

Why do kids turn their nose up to VT or GMU or any other school?

my dd chose JMU over VT

And my kid chose VT over JMU. It works both ways.

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Anonymous wrote:When JMU began using the Common App, they began to more vigorously waitlist or reject students that are high performing but JMU was 99.9% sure wouldn't come. So if your highly-qualified student didn't get in, they may be guessing that they weren't going to enroll anyway.

How would they know you and your kid's desires so well?

This is the same debunked theory of "yield protection" that was in the VT thread. It's just not a real thing.

Not debunked.