Anonymous
Post 10/26/2024 02:46     Subject: Stats for JMU
3.5 gpa is still decent.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 21:08     Subject: Stats for JMU
Lots of surprise deferments and eventual waitlists for JMU from my child's high school last year. I'm definitely curious what the acceptance rate will show when the CDS for this year is posted. 3.5 weighted wouldn't get you in from Virginia last year, not sure about out of state.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 21:05     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with 3.85 and 1480 SAT was waitlisted, but DD with 4.2 and 1350 SAT got in and with merit.


JMU is inconsistent and always has been (in my experience).

I was completely rejected at JMU in the early 1990s, but was admitted to UVA, VT, and Michigan. I chose VT because as an intended science major, it offered the strongest program.

In 2019, JMU was my oldest daughter's "safe school," for she strongly preferred VT and UVA. I don't remember her exact scores/GPA, but I think her GPA was around 4.2 (weighed, obviously), with an ACT around 34, and SAT I think was just under 1400.`She was rejected at UVA and deferred at JMU, but got into both VT and W&M. She chose VT.

My second daughter was not quite as strong a student as her older sister. Her GPA was definitely below a 4.0 weighted; I think it was 3.9 (weighted). Her SAT scores were closer to 1250. She was rejected at VT, VCU, and Clemson, but she got into JMU, as well as a few OOS schools. She's at an OOS school as a freshman.





True. I got into UVA and JMU in 1992. I had two good friends that did not get into JMU but did get into UVA. (So I went to JMU and was very happy and they were happy at UVA!)
It was unpredictable.


JMU was only a 30% acceptance rate in early 1990s. They significantly expanded enrollment.


The point was unpredictability
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 20:26     Subject: Stats for JMU
Got in from non-DC private w 3.4 w TO in 2022 with solid ECs. That was about the cutoff edge for the school. Instate.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 20:10     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with 3.85 and 1480 SAT was waitlisted, but DD with 4.2 and 1350 SAT got in and with merit.


JMU is inconsistent and always has been (in my experience).

I was completely rejected at JMU in the early 1990s, but was admitted to UVA, VT, and Michigan. I chose VT because as an intended science major, it offered the strongest program.

In 2019, JMU was my oldest daughter's "safe school," for she strongly preferred VT and UVA. I don't remember her exact scores/GPA, but I think her GPA was around 4.2 (weighed, obviously), with an ACT around 34, and SAT I think was just under 1400.`She was rejected at UVA and deferred at JMU, but got into both VT and W&M. She chose VT.

My second daughter was not quite as strong a student as her older sister. Her GPA was definitely below a 4.0 weighted; I think it was 3.9 (weighted). Her SAT scores were closer to 1250. She was rejected at VT, VCU, and Clemson, but she got into JMU, as well as a few OOS schools. She's at an OOS school as a freshman.





True. I got into UVA and JMU in 1992. I had two good friends that did not get into JMU but did get into UVA. (So I went to JMU and was very happy and they were happy at UVA!)
It was unpredictable.


JMU was only a 30% acceptance rate in early 1990s. They significantly expanded enrollment.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 19:48     Subject: Stats for JMU
Dc1 2024 got in to jmu honors college w 4.1 and 1380 sat submitted. Fcps so in state. Went out of state to another school though, but seriously considered it.

Dc2, currently a hs junior, 3.5w gpa and 1200 sat. Hoping to bump up the gpa and sat but I’m nervous.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 19:13     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with 3.85 and 1480 SAT was waitlisted, but DD with 4.2 and 1350 SAT got in and with merit.


In what years was this?


HS graduating classes of 2022 and 2023 (respectively).
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 19:10     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with 3.85 and 1480 SAT was waitlisted, but DD with 4.2 and 1350 SAT got in and with merit.


JMU is inconsistent and always has been (in my experience).

I was completely rejected at JMU in the early 1990s, but was admitted to UVA, VT, and Michigan. I chose VT because as an intended science major, it offered the strongest program.

In 2019, JMU was my oldest daughter's "safe school," for she strongly preferred VT and UVA. I don't remember her exact scores/GPA, but I think her GPA was around 4.2 (weighed, obviously), with an ACT around 34, and SAT I think was just under 1400.`She was rejected at UVA and deferred at JMU, but got into both VT and W&M. She chose VT.

My second daughter was not quite as strong a student as her older sister. Her GPA was definitely below a 4.0 weighted; I think it was 3.9 (weighted). Her SAT scores were closer to 1250. She was rejected at VT, VCU, and Clemson, but she got into JMU, as well as a few OOS schools. She's at an OOS school as a freshman.





True. I got into UVA and JMU in 1992. I had two good friends that did not get into JMU but did get into UVA. (So I went to JMU and was very happy and they were happy at UVA!)
It was unpredictable.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 19:03     Subject: Stats for JMU
Have you visited? We went two weeks ago and they said “don’t send your SAT scores- really- save your money because we won’t look at them.” They want As and Bs and some rigor.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 18:46     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, meant to say we are OOS, in MD


On the one hand, JMU loves OOS tuition dollars. On the other hand, if you are in MCPS, your GPA is much more heavily weighted than most Virginia schools, and you are not comparing apples to apples.

In my FCPS school, you’d want a weighted 3.7, unweighted 3.4 AT MINIMUM, for JMU.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 18:30     Subject: Stats for JMU
Sorry, meant to say we are OOS, in MD
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 18:23     Subject: Stats for JMU
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DS with 1370 SAT and 3.5 gpa was waitlisted. Ended up at another university and is very happy.


weighted or unweighted?


And in-state or OOS?


weighted and in-state. School only posts weighted gpa on transcript.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 18:17     Subject: Stats for JMU
I agree about checking out the stats from your high school, but just for example's sake. At my daughter's high school, narrowing down to just last year, 31 kids applied and only 3 were denied. The lowest uwgpa accepted was 3.38 and TO. The lowest wgpa accepted was 3.52 TO. Sounds like some of those high stat kids who were waitlisted may have a little yield protection going on.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 18:01     Subject: Stats for JMU
All that matters is: what the admission's landscape is like from your high school.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 17:34     Subject: Stats for JMU
Is it still easier for boys to get in?