JMU decisions out

[Anonymous]

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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!

NP. It is pretty low. My DC is at a Big3 and has a 3.0 gpa and took the ACT once and scored a 33. I think a 33 is the school average. I think it was the ACT score, PP. This year is so wacky.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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!

NP. It is pretty low. My DC is at a Big3 and has a 3.0 gpa and took the ACT once and scored a 33. I think a 33 is the school average. I think it was the ACT score, PP. This year is so wacky.

It’s just not low for the real world or for JMU. Did yours get accepted to JMU?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It disappoints me that you put this weight on parents and accepted students. Perhaps blame the school for going test optional.

Blame the school? What? Test optional was a majorly great development.

Besides I don’t think JMU is test optional

Yes, it is test optional for 2023
https://www.jmu.edu/admissions/apply/faq.shtml#undefined
3rd question down.

JMU seems to currently strongly consider students in relation to their school, which may hurt "average" performers at top schools, esp. since they don't really care about test scores either:

No. We recognize that there are differences in the overall strengths of high schools, but we are most interested in how well our candidates have taken advantage of the resources available to them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted and completely shocked. Nobody from her school ever gets rejected from JMU. But, honestly, she’s in at a higher ranked school that she said she prefers. And from the comments of the mom a few posts above, happy to see DD run the other direction. I graduated from JMU in the nineties, have been a happy supporter of the program I was an athlete with, but I am now done with this school forever. This makes absolutely no sense.

You're done with your alma mater, that you liked, because your kid didn't get in?

100% It was a much better place then anyway, before they doubled in size and lowered their selectivity. My kid’s stats are above the 75th percentile in every way. We are OOS, but still, seeing many with much lower stats OOS admitted. I just can’t understand what’s going on. The very next request I get to contribute will be deleted, I will opt out, and they will never see another penny. I didn’t expect any legacy or donor benefit at all—mainly because e in a million years the kid didn’t need it. To not be accepted with well above the stats? Yeah, I’m done.

Wow... the entitlement just drips from this post. No one owes your kid an admittance.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

JMU doesn't care about test scores apparently (only 1/4 of students submit). Given the number of applications they might have just done a GPA cut-off and not paid attention to the rigor of the school. I would imagine your child has lots of other great options though.

Maybe. Compared to any other year, her GPA, is fine. There are kids who have gotten in from her school with 2.0s, 2.5s, many many of them with much lower GPAs. I had no idea that so few submitted scores. This whole process has just been a nightmare. It’s looking like my kid will literally have one single choice when this is all over. And it’s a solid school bit far from first choice.

Now this is just not true. Please spare us.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

NP. It is pretty low. My DC is at a Big3 and has a 3.0 gpa and took the ACT once and scored a 33. I think a 33 is the school average. I think it was the ACT score, PP. This year is so wacky.

It’s just not low for the real world or for JMU. Did yours get accepted to JMU?

I should have qualified my response. The 28 ACT is a pretty low score for a Big3. I realize in the “real world” it is like a 90%. No, my kid didn’t apply and mine only has a 3.0, so much lower GPA than your DC. That is all I am saying. I also agree, that it is surprising your DC was WL at JMU. But I stand by gut feeling that it was the ACT score.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the 28 poster has confirmed it's a Big3 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the 28 poster has confirmed it's a Big3 school.

You are right. PP said “highly rigorous private.” I just assumed because they said 3.2 GPA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:39,000 kids applied to JMU. Please have your kids put in their decisions if they are not going so some kids who really want to go can come off of the waitlist. This is heartbreaking

1310 SAT and 3.7 (4.2 weighted) - in! ACPS. She wants to study Accounting.

Congratulations. JMU has a superb and heavily recruited accounting program! Great CPA exam pass rate. She will likely have multiple job offers before her senior year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the 28 poster has confirmed it's a Big3 school.

Did, and yes, it was.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

JMU doesn't care about test scores apparently (only 1/4 of students submit). Given the number of applications they might have just done a GPA cut-off and not paid attention to the rigor of the school. I would imagine your child has lots of other great options though.

Maybe. Compared to any other year, her GPA, is fine. There are kids who have gotten in from her school with 2.0s, 2.5s, many many of them with much lower GPAs. I had no idea that so few submitted scores. This whole process has just been a nightmare. It’s looking like my kid will literally have one single choice when this is all over. And it’s a solid school bit far from first choice.

No. The average GPA at JMU was 3,88

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

JMU doesn't care about test scores apparently (only 1/4 of students submit). Given the number of applications they might have just done a GPA cut-off and not paid attention to the rigor of the school. I would imagine your child has lots of other great options though.

Maybe. Compared to any other year, her GPA, is fine. There are kids who have gotten in from her school with 2.0s, 2.5s, many many of them with much lower GPAs. I had no idea that so few submitted scores. This whole process has just been a nightmare. It’s looking like my kid will literally have one single choice when this is all over. And it’s a solid school bit far from first choice.

Now this is just not true. Please spare us.
DP

I promise you. Ask other big 3 parents to look at their data. This is 100% not made up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

JMU doesn't care about test scores apparently (only 1/4 of students submit). Given the number of applications they might have just done a GPA cut-off and not paid attention to the rigor of the school. I would imagine your child has lots of other great options though.

Maybe. Compared to any other year, her GPA, is fine. There are kids who have gotten in from her school with 2.0s, 2.5s, many many of them with much lower GPAs. I had no idea that so few submitted scores. This whole process has just been a nightmare. It’s looking like my kid will literally have one single choice when this is all over. And it’s a solid school bit far from first choice.

No. The average GPA at JMU was 3,88

Is this gpa weighted or unweighted?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted and completely shocked. Nobody from her school ever gets rejected from JMU. But, honestly, she’s in at a higher ranked school that she said she prefers. And from the comments of the mom a few posts above, happy to see DD run the other direction. I graduated from JMU in the nineties, have been a happy supporter of the program I was an athlete with, but I am now done with this school forever. This makes absolutely no sense.

Are you serious? She was accepted at a higher rank school, JMU anticipated that may be the case, and decided accordingly. She could have EAed if she wanted to signal more interest. But now you're done with the school? Hope that you are keeping this attitude on the DL from your DD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD waitlisted and completely shocked. Nobody from her school ever gets rejected from JMU. But, honestly, she’s in at a higher ranked school that she said she prefers. And from the comments of the mom a few posts above, happy to see DD run the other direction. I graduated from JMU in the nineties, have been a happy supporter of the program I was an athlete with, but I am now done with this school forever. This makes absolutely no sense.

You're done with your alma mater, that you liked, because your kid didn't get in?

100% It was a much better place then anyway, before they doubled in size and lowered their selectivity. My kid’s stats are above the 75th percentile in every way. We are OOS, but still, seeing many with much lower stats OOS admitted. I just can’t understand what’s going on. The very next request I get to contribute will be deleted, I will opt out, and they will never see another penny. I didn’t expect any legacy or donor benefit at all—mainly because e in a million years the kid didn’t need it. To not be accepted with well above the stats? Yeah, I’m done.

You're making my night.