JMU EA is out

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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.

I remember this as a mid 90s grad. Our valedictorian went to JMU. What changed in the 2000s?

Well it's been 30 years

[Anonymous]

I appreciate the "Just-Missed-UVA" nickname and former higher level of selectivity when it was much smaller but I don't think that it tells the whole story. Were kids with the stats of some of these deferrals turned down in the past?? It is not the impression I have.

Also, people are forgetting that NOVA kids are always competing against one another and that a certain profile from a different part of Virginia is accepted into UVA/W&M/Tech/JMU but deferred or even rejected from NOVA. Understandable but it hurts.

My kid with a 3.6 and 1400 got in yesterday and I didn't realize until reading this thread how borderline he probably was. It sounds like it could have gone either way and he's one of the lucky ones. (And no question that LUCK is a huge factor.)

I will say, though, that a lot of these schools that have sudden growths in popularity (like UTK, for example) do change their tune in RD and go to the waitlists. It is hard to calculate a yield when your popularity is rising. Among my kids' High School class of 24 friends, it seemed like most of the surprise deferrals ended up ultimately being acceptances. Don't lose hope!

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I will be over the moon if any of my three kids go to JMU!!! I went there in the 90’s as did my sister. Both of us have great careers and absolutely loved our time there.

One of the reasons I love hiring JMU grads is they don’t think their sh*t doesn’t smell.

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred, with a 3.6 GPA and 34 ACT.

OP here. Very surprised, and helpful to hear of other deferral stats. We are in at Pitt and some other good places so not too worried.

Yes, we were also surprised[i], as mentioned above, my DS was deferred, and he had wrongfully deemed JMU to be a safety.

As mentioned, he's in at Penn State, but the Out-of-State cost there is steep...

There are other options as well, Marquette, South Carolina, Dayton, and some others...

However, this causes doubt about what the result might be for VT, as we're expecting a straight up rejection from UVA.

It just sucks that now we have to wait until April to see all the options...

That'll be a "no" for VT.

My son last year was rejected by Penn State/Clemson and waitlisted at S. Carolina/Tenn but got into VT EA in the business school. It really is unpredictable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I remember this as a mid 90s grad. Our valedictorian went to JMU. What changed in the 2000s?

I went in the early 90s. It was truly Just Missed UVA (JMU) and much better than Tech. It went from 12,000 students in the 90s to 22,000 now. Selectivity went down a lot to grow it to almost double the size.

This is what I heard from a friend who is native to NOVA and went to VT back then, too. JMU lowered selectivity purposely to grow its size. Hopefully they're happy with their current size and can implement ED to better identify high performing students who really do want to attend, and then also be a little less selective during RD because VA needs schools like JMU (affordability, quality, size, athletics, good band, etc) for strong students who aren't tops in stats.

ED mainly benefits the school; not the student. I see no reason at the moment anyway,JMU would need to institute ED. It fills its freshmen class.
We have a student at JMU who came in who was “tops in stats” in a really competitive NOVA high school, good rigor, and an athlete. Her friends, not all from VA, are the same.

[Anonymous]

My friend's who were not in AP classes and only did honors getting As and Bs were the ones who got into JMU in the 90s. I don't think it's changed that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

School significantly expanded…I think tripled in size.

I remember this as a mid 90s grad. Our valedictorian went to JMU. What changed in the 2000s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The financial aid offering is a big consideration for us...it's such a balancing act waiting to hear about that, waiting on other schools, deciding by X deadline at ABC school but not sure because DEF school hasn't emailed yet, etc.

I guess we'll hang tight until mid Feb (per the JMU email), but curious why they can't run their numbers with their secret formula to determine how much tuition will cost/scholarships.

+1 I’m so grateful and excited that DD was admitted. JMU is a strong choice. But as an OOS applicant, cost is a big consideration and I’m not sure why JMU can’t release financial decisions at the same time. Other schools do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend's who were not in AP classes and only did honors getting As and Bs were the ones who got into JMU in the 90s. I don't think it's changed that much.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will be over the moon if any of my three kids go to JMU!!! I went there in the 90’s as did my sister. Both of us have great careers and absolutely loved our time there.

One of the reasons I love hiring JMU grads is they don’t think their sh*t doesn’t smell.

I’m a UVA alum from the 90s with several friends who went to JMU, loved it and still love it. While I don’t love that expression, the bolded really encapsulates the difference in culture. The lack of hot air is refreshing. My current junior is considering it and I’m pretty sure she’d have a great experience.

[Anonymous]

Another thing affecting selectivity is that for a very long time JMU was not on the Common App. So few students who weren't really considering it would go to the effort to fill out a separate app. They just joined Common App a couple years ago so we should expect apps to trend up and admission rate to trend down just based on that change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend's who were not in AP classes and only did honors getting As and Bs were the ones who got into JMU in the 90s. I don't think it's changed that much.

Nope.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from JMU in the mid 90s and had a wonderful experience. Full disclosure - UVA was my top choice but I was waitlisted coming from a large NOVA public and it all worked out!!

My senior from a W MCPS high school was just admitted with stats that are way under what someone coming from a NOVA public would need. He’s my third one to go through the process; with my other two at other OOS publics. It really is a random process and I believe it really works out for the majority of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from JMU in the mid 90s and had a wonderful experience. Full disclosure - UVA was my top choice but I was waitlisted coming from a large NOVA public and it all worked out!!

My senior from a W MCPS high school was just admitted with stats that are way under what someone coming from a NOVA public would need. He’s my third one to go through the process; with my other two at other OOS publics. It really is a random process and I believe it really works out for the majority of students.

While you mean well, no one reading this is happy their in state kid didn’t get into their state school (with instate tuition) to make room for your lower stats OOS kid…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred, with a 3.6 GPA and 34 ACT.

OP here. Very surprised, and helpful to hear of other deferral stats. We are in at Pitt and some other good places so not too worried.

Yes, we were also surprised[i], as mentioned above, my DS was deferred, and he had wrongfully deemed JMU to be a safety.

As mentioned, he's in at Penn State, but the Out-of-State cost there is steep...

There are other options as well, Marquette, South Carolina, Dayton, and some others...

However, this causes doubt about what the result might be for VT, as we're expecting a straight up rejection from UVA.

It just sucks that now we have to wait until April to see all the options...

That'll be a "no" for VT.

My son last year was rejected by Penn State/Clemson and waitlisted at S. Carolina/Tenn but got into VT EA in the business school. It really is unpredictable.

If you’re a Va resident that’s understandable though, you’re at a disadvantage out of state.