JMU - EA Decisions Delayed

[Anonymous]

My DD is applying to 10 schools. She has several that she really likes for different reasons. I can tell she really isn't set on one school at this point and she wants to have some options. She had to write a separate essay for most, so it isn't just a "click and apply" via Comm App.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

Ok. Care to elaborate.

[Anonymous]

I don't think it's just more college apps, there are more kids trying to go to college in general. It's harder than ever before to get accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never heard of anyone applying to more than 10 schools..I mean I am sure kds do but not common at our mcps school.

Wonder if they don’t want to admit it. I’ve learned to take anything parents (other than very close friends) say about this process with a healthy dose of skepticism. Competition, pride, anxiety. It’s a stressful process and people play their own games.

If they are a strong candidate and they qualify for application fee waivers or can afford to pay tons of application fees there is really nothing stopping them from applying to as many schools (non binding ED/EA) as they can and casting the widest net for spots and scholarships that they can.

We ran into this last year with schools being flooded by applications. The common app has been good in some ways but it makes it much easier to apply to 10+ schools. The same highly qualified group of kids are being offered all of the scholarship money and spots. To make things worse, the kids who don't make the first cut were getting flat out rejected meaning that the second round of applicants with weaker qualifications were then being considered during regular decision. Then to compound it all, they don't turn down the offers until the very last possible second and by that point many of the wait listed candidates have accepted offers from other schools.

It's like they fixed one part of the process but broke another part. I don't know what the solution is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid applied early action to JMU and got no such email.

Same here.

Same here as well...

[Anonymous]

I’m guessing the cc post was incorrect and the email never happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

Very true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

Very true.

GMU has had non-stop building for the last 15 years. UVA is building dorms. Va Tech is building the new institution near Amazon. As far as I can tell all the Virginia Commonwealth schools are expanding as fast as they can.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

Very true.

GMU has had non-stop building for the last 15 years. UVA is building dorms. Va Tech is building the new institution near Amazon. As far as I can tell all the Virginia Commonwealth schools are expanding as fast as they can.

UVA is not building dorms, they are renovating old dorm buildings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

Very true.

GMU has had non-stop building for the last 15 years. UVA is building dorms. Va Tech is building the new institution near Amazon. As far as I can tell all the Virginia Commonwealth schools are expanding as fast as they can.

UVA is not building dorms, they are renovating old dorm buildings.

Not correct. https://www.fm.virginia.edu/depts/fpc/projects/active/brandonavenue.html
New housing being constructed for 313 students.

[Anonymous]

Re UVA: In addition to building new dorms (more! I just lived through the earlier construction phase of new dorms), $105 million will be spent to renovate the "Old Dorms" by 2022.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me.

.JMU is building space for more students at a frantic pace due to demand.

Very true.

GMU has had non-stop building for the last 15 years. UVA is building dorms. Va Tech is building the new institution near Amazon. As far as I can tell all the Virginia Commonwealth schools are expanding as fast as they can.

UVA is not building dorms, they are renovating old dorm buildings.

UVA is most of the way through the process of tearing down and rebuilding all of the older 1960s era dorms on Observatory Hill. Big project. I think capacity is expanded. They are also going to build net new on Brandon Avenue.

[Anonymous]

"Sounds like a JMU marketing trick to me."

I think it is caused by VTech's admission rate going from 75% in 2017 to 62% in 2018.