<p>You will need to make a deposit at George Mason (or another school to which you have been accepted) by May 1. JMU will not go to their waitlist until after May 1. So, you could deposit and Mason and still remain on the waitlist at JMU. If you are admitted off the waitlist at JMUyou can then make the decision to accept your place at JMU, or not.</p>
<p>Do you know what percent of the waitlist get off it?</p>
<p><a href=“BigFuture College Search”>BigFuture College Search;
<p>Go the applying tab-it shows waitlist statistics. </p>
<p>Wait list Statistics
Offered place on wait list 3,335
Number accepting place 1,431
Accepted from list 7</p>
<p>Very low chance. .005% (7/1431) 3,335 were offered to be on the waitlist. 1,431 students say they will take a spot on the waitlist, but only 7 were chosen by JMU.</p>
<p>If JMU was your number one, my recommendation would be go to your #2 and try it out. I had a lot of friends who were denied from their number one and ended up loving their backup school. If you don’t like your backup, you can always transfer. Just work really hard and get involved your first semester. I would also retake the SAT if it was especially bad.</p>
<p>That’s very odd since I know personally at least 15 people who got into JMU but will not be attending. Many people in my hs apply for JMU as a safety for UVA and Tech.</p>
<p>The problem is JMU is no longer a good safety school anymore. Every year it gets even more competitive. Many people will end up going to JMU (Just Missed UVA) because they will be denied at UVA. The school always accepts more Freshman than it can usually handle as there is always overpopulation in the dorms which is due to people accepting their decision. This fills up quick when people are denied from UVA and end up choosing JMU. The stats may be wrong though. Here’s an old thread </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/james-madison-university/1120379-jmu-2011-waitlist-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/james-madison-university/1120379-jmu-2011-waitlist-4.html</a></p>
<p>Call JMU admissions and ask for stats from last year. They would have the best accuracy.</p>
<p>Abdu07- This issue is that when someone you know turns down their spot, that doesn’t mean JMU (or any school) has a spot to offer someone. All universities know what their “yield” historically is. Yield is the percentage of people that are offered admission that accept a spot. I don’t know what JMU’s are, but UVA and W&M are both in the 30s percentage wise. Most of the people applying to these schools are applying to many other. So (and again, I didn’t look their yield up so this is not based on their number), if a school wants to have a class of 2000 Freshman, and they historically have a yield of 25%, they will offer admission to 8000 or so students, expecting that will give them the size class they want. Said another way, in this scenario, over 6000 students have to say no to the offer before a college begins admitting from the wait list.</p>
<p>Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news. I am hoping that George Mason is a school you can be excited about. I recommend that you go and get involved early and don’t spend your college days pining for another school. That is the best way to ensure that you don’t get the most out of it. GMU is a great school- congrats!</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list 3335_
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 1431_
Number of wait-listed students admitted <strong>7</strong></p>
<p>These are the JMU stats for this year’s freshman class.</p>
<p>And here is the info on the current freshman class applicant and admitted pool:
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who applied <em>9307</em>____
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who applied <em>13341</em>___
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) men who were admitted <em>5388</em>____
Total first-time, first-year (freshman) women who were admitted <em>9004</em>____
Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled <em>1709</em>____
Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) men who enrolled <strong><em>1</em></strong>
Total full-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled <em>2614</em>___
Total part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) women who enrolled _<strong><em>1</em></strong>__</p>
<p>All of these numbers are available for any school. Just go to the school’s website and look for their “common data set”. This report is quite lengthy but most colleges will have an index and these numbers are in the section on freshman admission.</p>
<p>Yeah I already saw these reports. Also in the 2011-12 one, 165 people were admitted off the waitlist, and the year before 498. I guess you’re right …
But idk many people told me they admit a lot of people off the waitlist.</p>
<p>“many people” say lots of things- doesn’t make them true. These reports are the federally mandated ones that all schools must file. Those are the official numbers. It may be that “many people” are referring to years ago. JMU has gotten much tougher to get into and their yield has gone up.</p>