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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son didn't get in last year - 3.8 wGPA, 1330 SAT.  Very sad.[/quote]

Don't take it personally. JMU just figured there was no way your son would actually go there with those #'s (especially the SAT).[/quote]

Except that it was his first choice and he would absolutely have attended.  Too bad JMU doesn't have ED for kids like mine.[/quote]

Did your kid engage directly with a recruiter over email? In person?

Did your kid visit (officially) and engage?

Despite another poster saying JMU doesn’t track interest, I think they do. [b]And given the big interest in certain southern schools, I think everyone is trying to do a better job of yield protection. [/b]

My kid got into every school where he demonstrated an interest—primarily through multiple interactions with the recruiter. [/quote]

Back up this claim. I’ll be waiting for your cite.[/quote]

You won’t see hard data for another year or so (there’s a time lag obviously), and they simply don’t release all the details people want.

But if you talk to enough parents—or to college advisors who help kids in your area—you’ll hear about kids with good stats who didn’t get into the easy  schools but somehow got into the more difficult schools.

I think the schools that are perceived as the safety or back up realize when that’s where they stand for applicants with certain stats, and they are taking action.

And what I’ve gleaned from actively participating in this process with 2 kids over the last 5 years is that you can’t accurately predict when shifts happen. The data lags 2 years and it’s tough to predict which schools will take off. Auburn used to be relatively easy to get into, but not anymore. Kids with better stats than their predecessors two or three years ahead of them didn’t make it into the same schools. For whatever reason, LSU was caught off guard by the high number of kids who accepted, and they have kids piled into buildings that aren’t really dorms.

I could go on and on, but the takeaway is southern schools are just really popular now.

Fwiw, two college advisors I know predict kids will turn to the West Coast in bigger numbers next. But who knows? A lot of this is a crapshoot based on whatever metric a school uses based on who actually applies and where they are from.

But I stand by my tip that kids should engage with the local recruiter. My kid met a recruiter at their high school, followed up afterwards over email and then phone, showed up at a regional event just to say hello and reiterate his interest in attending (and wore a polo from the school), and asked if it was possible to arrange a meeting with someone from his prospective dept during his upcoming tour. The recruiter set up the private meeting in association with his your. I know this helped. And it was a school that “doesn’t track interest.”

They simply must on some level.

This is the playbook both my kids used for their top 2 or 3 choices. And it’s what my next kid will do as well. [/quote]

Nice anecdotes [/quote]

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