Was pleasantly surprised to see the Honors College. This kid is going to have quite the decisions to make. I know her #1 but don’t think she will get the offerings she is getting from JMU and others for honors.
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NoVa deferred here. As are most of their friends at school. Looks like we did them no favors moving here.
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Deferred OOS, 3.3 GPA, 3 APs, mostly honors courses
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My student was flat out rejected. His top choice. Tough day.
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I’m so sorry. Happened to us with UVA.
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I’m sorry, too. I went to bed a bit down because it’s our a top choice for us, too. I know it’s not a rejection, but it sort of hit me that way, so I sort of know how you feel. If our kids had applied when we all were in college, they’d be much happier and less stressed. It is a @@@@ show, as one and probably man posters have stated on CC.
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Happened to me today with umich💔
We were postponed from umich feels like they did that to a ton of people. It’s ok wasn’t her top choice and she thought she would be rejected. She is really happy that she got the honors invite today from JMU. Our visit is scheduled.
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My son is deferred as well OOS low gpa good ECs tough school district
March seems so far away 
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Accepted last night, in state, engineering, 4.01W GPA, not sure about UW (maybe 3.8), great rigor, no test scores submitted, great ECs with lots of leadership, probably a very good essay and impactful recs but it’s hard to say.
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NOVA’s economy funds the rest of the state but I swear the rest of the state gets so much preference at these schools…
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Accepted OOS 3.61/4.5 UW 4.0/4.5 W, 10 AP’s, 11 honors, 30 ACT, a lot of EC’s and honor societies. Deferred honors college
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So wouldn’t that be a good thing to give other parts of the state opportunities and maybe take that education back to their part of the state to help improve their economic output?
I have talked to the head of admissions. They do not give any preferential treatment to any parts of the state. Nobody is dissing NOVA. They also don’t yield-protect for Virginia students. If you are qualified, you get in.
Typically, JMU admits roughly the top third to half of students in early and defers everyone else to regular. A lot of those students get in later in regular decision.
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I was speaking more about UVA honestly, both my kids got into JMU easily. Please don’t take my comment too seriously.
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Yes and no, most kids don’t take their degree back to their hometown, especially if it’s in a more rural part of VA for example. They go to where the jobs are.
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Is there things for the kids to do in and around JMU? It seems to be more of a college town. (Which i am 100% good with) I just have limited experience on that area.
So you say if you’re qualified you get in. So I shouldn’t worry about him being deferred because he’ll get in RD with a 3.75 gpa, 3 DE, 8 APs, and the rest honors? He went TO at all schools because his SAT wasn’t high enough for UVA.
We may be paying twice as much to send him OOS because of a UVA rejection, a JMU deferral, and who knows with Tech…. If he didn’t get in EA at JMU, he’ll probably get rejected at Tech.
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“Qualified” is subjective but for example, UVA accepts a lot more girls than boys, and based on some of the data I’ve seen, they value certain demographics coming out of NOVA especially. As far as VT, I feel like they ask for so little in terms of their application (no teacher recs for example, very short and limited supplemental questions) so that elevates the importance of each stat. So going TO limits one of their main criteria. I’m really surprised that he was deferred on those stats?
Thanks. Do you know if they can send test scores in at this point since they were deferred? 1270 (super anxiety bad test taker)
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