JMU EA is out

[Anonymous]

Why is a mid tier school such as Pen State hijacking this JMU thread?

Let’s get back to JMU admissions.

[Anonymous]

In:
FCPS male
3.9W GPA
1280 SAT
no school-based ECs, but has a job year-round

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Anonymous wrote:Does VA have colleges for average kids anymore? Or decent safeties? There seems to be a big drop off between the top 4 schools and the rest.

I assume VCU, CNU, Mary Washington, Longwood, ODU would all fit the bill?

Admittedly, that is a very broad and diverse range of different types of public universities, but I would have had JMU in that category, as easier to get into than UVA and VT, but not anymore??

It's definitely easier to get into than UVA. For VT it's more about major. There are majors at VT with very high admit rates.

Really?? I know it's harder to get into Engineering at VT, but I didn't know there were majors that had very high admit rates. Do we seriously have to wait until 2/28 for EA release date at VT?

You can dig into the data here: https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college

Limiting it to in-state applicants, here are a few I found with admit rates >70%. A lot of these are newer/small majors.
Smart and Sustainable Cities (78%)
Environmental Policy & Planning (74%)
Sustainable Biomaterials (91%)
Packaging Systems and Design (82%)
Water Resources Policy and Management (88%)
Polymer Chemistry (78%)
Systems Biology (82%)
Mathematics (74%)
Statistics (74%)

There are a lot of majors with admit rates in the 60% range for in-state students.

It looks like you have to have an account to log in. Can you see what the Economics admit rate is?

? I've never logged into it. However, it doesn't work well on mobile so that might be the issue?

Anyway, the in-state admit rate for economics is 63%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted with a 3.7, 1320 SAT and IB diploma.

3.7 weighted or UW with the IB diploma?

Weighted. But grades are skewed with a positive trend. Freshman year was very bad and then the ship righted. Junior year was well over a 4.0 weighted.

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Anonymous wrote:Accepted with a 3.7, 1320 SAT and IB diploma.

3.7 weighted or UW with the IB diploma?

Weighted. But grades are skewed with a positive trend. Freshman year was very bad and then the ship righted. Junior year was well over a 4.0 weighted.

That makes a huge difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Acceptance is very school dependent, and in my Fairfax County school Naviance data (McLean/Langley), a 3.6 gpa is not a safety or a slam dunk by any means. Even with a 34 ACT.

Interesting because I'm looking at Gonzaga scattergram and last year everyone with 3.2 and over got in, regardless of test scores (scores ranged from 1030-1500 but I'm not going to check who was test optional bc there are a ton of kids who applied), So a 3.6 with 34 GPA would absolutely be a slam dunk

Definitely very school dependent. At the higher performing FCPS high schools (like Oakton, Chantilly, Langley, etc), it is more difficult to get into JMU because they are competing against a lot of high stats students from those high schools. At Chantilly, for example, they generally need closer to a 3.9 gpa to get an acceptance. (Obviously, other factors come into play -- I'm just talking in general.)

This just seems like a bogus way of doing things. I mean it should be based on s whole school district, not an individual school.

Admissions are always, always based on the individual school and the peers at that school. Are you new to this?

Another rude, condescending, know-it-all parent on DCUM! It never changes. Luckily, your type generally looks down on JMU which is one reason it’s such a great place.

I'm the PP and a JMU parent x2 who agrees that it is indeed a great place. Sorry you think common sense is "rude and condescending"!

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Anonymous wrote:Acceptance is very school dependent, and in my Fairfax County school Naviance data (McLean/Langley), a 3.6 gpa is not a safety or a slam dunk by any means. Even with a 34 ACT.

Interesting because I'm looking at Gonzaga scattergram and last year everyone with 3.2 and over got in, regardless of test scores (scores ranged from 1030-1500 but I'm not going to check who was test optional bc there are a ton of kids who applied), So a 3.6 with 34 GPA would absolutely be a slam dunk

Definitely very school dependent. At the higher performing FCPS high schools (like Oakton, Chantilly, Langley, etc), it is more difficult to get into JMU because they are competing against a lot of high stats students from those high schools. At Chantilly, for example, they generally need closer to a 3.9 gpa to get an acceptance. (Obviously, other factors come into play -- I'm just talking in general.)

This just seems like a bogus way of doing things. I mean it should be based on s whole school district, not an individual school.

Admissions are always, always based on the individual school and the peers at that school. Are you new to this?

Another rude, condescending, know-it-all parent on DCUM! It never changes. Luckily, your type generally looks down on JMU which is one reason it’s such a great place.

I'm the PP and a JMU parent x2 who agrees that it is indeed a great place. Sorry you think common sense is "rude and condescending"!

You can have a JMU student and still look down on others (maybe looking down on yourself?). But the rest of us aren’t going to play along. It’s a great school.

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Anonymous wrote:Acceptance is very school dependent, and in my Fairfax County school Naviance data (McLean/Langley), a 3.6 gpa is not a safety or a slam dunk by any means. Even with a 34 ACT.

Interesting because I'm looking at Gonzaga scattergram and last year everyone with 3.2 and over got in, regardless of test scores (scores ranged from 1030-1500 but I'm not going to check who was test optional bc there are a ton of kids who applied), So a 3.6 with 34 GPA would absolutely be a slam dunk

Definitely very school dependent. At the higher performing FCPS high schools (like Oakton, Chantilly, Langley, etc), it is more difficult to get into JMU because they are competing against a lot of high stats students from those high schools. At Chantilly, for example, they generally need closer to a 3.9 gpa to get an acceptance. (Obviously, other factors come into play -- I'm just talking in general.)

This just seems like a bogus way of doing things. I mean it should be based on s whole school district, not an individual school.

Admissions are always, always based on the individual school and the peers at that school. Are you new to this?

Another rude, condescending, know-it-all parent on DCUM! It never changes. Luckily, your type generally looks down on JMU which is one reason it’s such a great place.

I'm the PP and a JMU parent x2 who agrees that it is indeed a great place. Sorry you think common sense is "rude and condescending"!

You can have a JMU student and still look down on others (maybe looking down on yourself?). But the rest of us aren’t going to play along. It’s a great school.

What on earth are you talking about?? I don't (and haven't) looked down on anyone. I simply questioned whether you were new to the admissions process as most people are aware that students are judged against their own school and peers.

And once again, I have two Dukes and love JMU. You seem incredibly combative and odd.

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Anonymous wrote:JMU is going to continue to get harder to get in to…

Pretty campus
Rising sports programs
“Traditional College Experience”
Affordable In-State
Big enough but small than VT

It was much harder back in the 90s…only a 30% acceptance rate back then.

Watch. It is going to trend back that way slowly each upcoming year. They didn’t have enough beds for the number of freshman that came this past Fall. As their yield continues to improve their acceptance rate will go down

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Anonymous wrote:Acceptance is very school dependent, and in my Fairfax County school Naviance data (McLean/Langley), a 3.6 gpa is not a safety or a slam dunk by any means. Even with a 34 ACT.

Interesting because I'm looking at Gonzaga scattergram and last year everyone with 3.2 and over got in, regardless of test scores (scores ranged from 1030-1500 but I'm not going to check who was test optional bc there are a ton of kids who applied), So a 3.6 with 34 GPA would absolutely be a slam dunk

Definitely very school dependent. At the higher performing FCPS high schools (like Oakton, Chantilly, Langley, etc), it is more difficult to get into JMU because they are competing against a lot of high stats students from those high schools. At Chantilly, for example, they generally need closer to a 3.9 gpa to get an acceptance. (Obviously, other factors come into play -- I'm just talking in general.)

This is partly bc students are greedy about apps these days. It’s common for a high stats kid to apply to 14-18 schools and they just throw in schools like JMU as an in-state safety but with almost zero intention of going. So the kids from the same high school who should get in and who really wanna go there are deferred or rejected.
Wish there were a reasonable limit on how many schools you could apply to (ten seems decent) so that everyone has a fair shot.

[Anonymous]

Parent of a JMU senior. Congratulations to the admitted students. A deferral isn’t a rejection. Hang tight.

But why, oh why, are people dragging Penn State on this thread? Or any other?

Great school.

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Anonymous wrote:Does VA have colleges for average kids anymore? Or decent safeties? There seems to be a big drop off between the top 4 schools and the rest.

I assume VCU, CNU, Mary Washington, Longwood, ODU would all fit the bill?

Admittedly, that is a very broad and diverse range of different types of public universities, but I would have had JMU in that category, as easier to get into than UVA and VT, but not anymore??

It's definitely easier to get into than UVA. For VT it's more about major. There are majors at VT with very high admit rates.

Really?? I know it's harder to get into Engineering at VT, but I didn't know there were majors that had very high admit rates. Do we seriously have to wait until 2/28 for EA release date at VT?

You can dig into the data here: https://udc.vt.edu/irdata/data/students/admission/index#college

Limiting it to in-state applicants, here are a few I found with admit rates >70%. A lot of these are newer/small majors.
Smart and Sustainable Cities (78%)
Environmental Policy & Planning (74%)
Sustainable Biomaterials (91%)
Packaging Systems and Design (82%)
Water Resources Policy and Management (88%)
Polymer Chemistry (78%)
Systems Biology (82%)
Mathematics (74%) No
Statistics (74%)

There are a lot of majors with admit rates in the 60% range for in-state students.

Yes but keep in mind for VTech it can be hard to change your major if you try to game the admissions stats.

Also, there are weed-out classes. You don’t stay in polymer chemistry as a mediocre student. A number of those majors are full of former engineering students, which means they’re bringing some academic skills to the table, even if they didn’t stay in engineering.

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Anonymous wrote:Acceptance is very school dependent, and in my Fairfax County school Naviance data (McLean/Langley), a 3.6 gpa is not a safety or a slam dunk by any means. Even with a 34 ACT.

Interesting because I'm looking at Gonzaga scattergram and last year everyone with 3.2 and over got in, regardless of test scores (scores ranged from 1030-1500 but I'm not going to check who was test optional bc there are a ton of kids who applied), So a 3.6 with 34 GPA would absolutely be a slam dunk

Definitely very school dependent. At the higher performing FCPS high schools (like Oakton, Chantilly, Langley, etc), it is more difficult to get into JMU because they are competing against a lot of high stats students from those high schools. At Chantilly, for example, they generally need closer to a 3.9 gpa to get an acceptance. (Obviously, other factors come into play -- I'm just talking in general.)

This is partly bc students are greedy about apps these days. It’s common for a high stats kid to apply to 14-18 schools and they just throw in schools like JMU as an in-state safety but with almost zero intention of going. So the kids from the same high school who should get in and who really wanna go there are deferred or rejected.
Wish there were a reasonable limit on how many schools you could apply to (ten seems decent) so that everyone has a fair shot.

+100
It’s the people who sniffily claim that their child wasn’t even planning to go if accepted, who really take the cake. They expect their kid to be accepted even though they actually had no intention of accepting? Please.

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Anonymous wrote:In From MCPS
3.73 uw, 4.5 W
8 APs
1320 SAT
Okay ECs

Shocked at some of the deferred profiles!

Above student was probably unlikely to attend if accepted- JMU assumed it and decided against giving up a spot that wouldn't be taken. Protecting their yield.

I am fairly confident that JMU doesn’t yield protect.
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[Anonymous]

My daughter OOS, 3.6 UW, TO, accepted for biotech. It’s either yield protection or 🤷🏻‍♀️