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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if there are any parallels from across the river. I remember when UMD was a safety with a higher acceptance rate than JMU. Now it’s a highly sought after world-class university that rejected my 4.7 WGPA kid and broke her heart along with the hearts of 80% of her classmates. What changed? Increased performance in sports? Common App? College in general getting too darned expensive? A tipping point of high performing students embracing the school? Aren’t those forces also at play with JMU?[/quote]
Stop trying to make fetch happen.[/quote]

Lol! But actually, I’m curious about this as well. What causes seismic shifts in a school’s popularity and reputation within a decade or two?[/quote]

First and foremost: Winning some football games and going to bowl games.
Secondarily: [b]joining the Common App[/b]; other schools becoming harder to get into because they have so many more students applying due to the Common App; rising costs of colleges making in-state public school tuition more feasible.
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This is by far the reason...you see it with every school that joins the Common App.  Other factors include schools that now will accept your common statement to satisfy their similar requirements.

You need the awareness that the school exists, but having to complete a different application is a huge barrier.  Also, schools like University of Washington saw a big jump in applications when they no longer required you complete their own 650 word essay, but will just accept your common app essay.[/quote]

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