Can you tell me about JMU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we toured, JMU said it has the best 6 month job placement/further schooling rate of any school in VA. 96% as I recall.

While the admit rate overall is high, at our NoVA HS Naviance said the admit rate is closer to 55%. I hope my DD gets in. We liked the school. But she is not a walk-in and luckily already got at least one other admit, but I really like JMU.

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The admit rate published online, etc. bears no resemblance to the actual admit rate at various schools. It's become much more difficult to get in from NoVa high schools. We really liked JMU too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we toured, JMU said it has the best 6 month job placement/further schooling rate of any school in VA. 96% as I recall.

While the admit rate overall is high, at our NoVA HS Naviance said the admit rate is closer to 55%. I hope my DD gets in. We liked the school. But she is not a walk-in and luckily already got at least one other admit, but I really like JMU.

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The admit rate published online, etc. bears no resemblance to the actual admit rate at various schools. It's become much more difficult to get in from NoVa high schools. We really liked JMU too.

Their historic admissions rate is pretty meaningless. They just joined the Common App last year, leading to a big jump in applications. Will be interesting to see where it settles out at. Prior to last year, you had to do their own application so that definitely weeded out people who weren't highly interested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we toured, JMU said it has the best 6 month job placement/further schooling rate of any school in VA. 96% as I recall.

While the admit rate overall is high, at our NoVA HS Naviance said the admit rate is closer to 55%. I hope my DD gets in. We liked the school. But she is not a walk-in and luckily already got at least one other admit, but I really like JMU.

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The admit rate published online, etc. bears no resemblance to the actual admit rate at various schools. It's become much more difficult to get in from NoVa high schools. We really liked JMU too.

The JMU acceptance rate for the fall 2022 entering class from our FCPS high school was approximately 72% (about 230 applied).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in college in the 90s, JMU was knicknamed Just Missed UVA because it was the safety school for kids who didn't get into UVA. It has a nice reputation as a good school with lots of fun parties.

NOW, it definitely has risen in prestige and is much harder to get into. Several of my friends (both in and OOS) have kids there and all of them absolutely love it. For some kids it was their first choice, for others they didn't get into Tech so they went to JMU. I have a 10th grader for whom I think JMU would be a great fit so I am very attracted by its rise.

I have also never met anyone who went there that also didn't love it. It just seems to have so many positives.

JMU is a good school and almost every kid I’ve ever known to have gone there loved it - but it’s no more or less prestigious now than it was in the 90s. It still attracts a lot of kids who would rather have gone to UVA, except now they’re not “just missing” UVA. The chasm between the two schools when it comes to admissions is much wider now. The typical JMU kid today wouldn’t have a prayer of getting into UVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we toured, JMU said it has the best 6 month job placement/further schooling rate of any school in VA. 96% as I recall.

While the admit rate overall is high, at our NoVA HS Naviance said the admit rate is closer to 55%. I hope my DD gets in. We liked the school. But she is not a walk-in and luckily already got at least one other admit, but I really like JMU.

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The admit rate published online, etc. bears no resemblance to the actual admit rate at various schools. It's become much more difficult to get in from NoVa high schools. We really liked JMU too.

According the SCHEV, which publishes the real and unassailable statistics, 79 percent of Fairfax County applicants for 2021-22 got in.

https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/b8_admissions_locality.asp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I was in college in the 90s, JMU was knicknamed Just Missed UVA because it was the safety school for kids who didn't get into UVA. It has a nice reputation as a good school with lots of fun parties.

NOW, it definitely has risen in prestige and is much harder to get into. Several of my friends (both in and OOS) have kids there and all of them absolutely love it. For some kids it was their first choice, for others they didn't get into Tech so they went to JMU. I have a 10th grader for whom I think JMU would be a great fit so I am very attracted by its rise.

I have also never met anyone who went there that also didn't love it. It just seems to have so many positives.

JMU is a good school and almost every kid I’ve ever known to have gone there loved it - but it’s no more or less prestigious now than it was in the 90s. It still attracts a lot of kids who would rather have gone to UVA, except now they’re not “just missing” UVA. The chasm between the two schools when it comes to admissions is much wider now. The typical JMU kid today wouldn’t have a prayer of getting into UVA.

This appears to be true at our FCPS high school. Those admitted from our high school to the UVA fall 2022 entering class had an average GPA of 4.43 (as a graduating senior) and an average SAT of 1470, versus 3.87 and 1250 for JMU.

[Anonymous]

This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

[Anonymous]

I don’t know that that is true. I think the standards for admission are higher now than they previously were, but more in state students are applying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

You are remembering wrong. JMU was not rejecting 2/3 of applicants in the early 1990s. It’s simply not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

You are remembering wrong. JMU was not rejecting 2/3 of applicants in the early 1990s. It’s simply not true.

+1. Everything has gotten more selective. Including JMU. PP has it wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

You are remembering wrong. JMU was not rejecting 2/3 of applicants in the early 1990s. It’s simply not true.

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Totally bizarre post. "Just like Radford"? Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious academics with heavy workload. Very prestigious.

Look - the school is fine but don’t lie.
It’s not prestigious. It is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Serious academics with heavy workload. Very prestigious.

Look - the school is fine but don’t lie.
It’s not prestigious. It is fine.

That PP was being sarcastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

Grade inflation is real. Current students are no smarter than those of previous decades. In fact, professors often complain that students are ill prepared for college classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. i went to JMU in the early 90's and the acceptance rate was 34%-ish. I was surrounded by smart, well rounded, fun people. Seems like JMU prioritized growing over maintaining high standards. It's basically now just like Radford.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:JMU All applicants 2021-22:

Applied: 21335

Accepted: 18380

Acceptance rate: 86.2%

Source: SCHEV

Weird that you don't include a link. Here's mine. Last year's admission rate was 81%. This year's admission rate was 71%. Did you really think no one would call you out on your false information?

https://research.schev.edu/iProfile/232423/James-Madison-University

Grade inflation is real. Current students are no smarter than those of previous decades. In fact, professors often complain that students are ill prepared for college classes.

Grade inflation is real and rampant at both the high school and college level. SAT has been recentered up several times. Parents need to level set when evaluating Jr's accomplishments.