decisions soon....

<p>My friend whose daughter applied and got in last year to JMU - I was telling her about the generic email we got yesterday saying decisions coming soon. She said they got their online decision within 2 days of that generic email last year. Keep checking folks and post when someone sees something!</p>

<p>I still think it was a week or so, last year, from receiving the generic to the decision release date. JMU was the last school my daughter received word. I believe the results were the 23rd or 24th.</p>

<p>Perhaps different people received the decision on different dates?
Either way, I am really anxious to get the decision!
This is my top school, and all the other places I have applied have sent word that I’ve been accepted.
I will definitely post here as soon as I get the decision though!</p>

<p>Ah I’m so worried too and anxious to find out whether or not I got in. I don’t know if my grades are good enough and all this waiting around is absolute torture! JMU is my top choice and I don’t want to go anywhere else. Hopefully we will all hear back very shortly.</p>

<p>Same situation for my son. He is 6 for 6 so far on acceptances, but of course JMU is one of the last to respond and it is his top choice. Hopefully, he will be able to find out next week and start moving ahead with his plans.</p>

<p>My D also applied to JMU, but has been accepted by 2 of her top 3 choices(still waiting on Cornell). It concerns me that in waiting so long to post their decisions, that many who applied will have already decided to go somewhere else. Come April 1, I am expecting a decision out of her so we can get this over and move on with life. JMU admissions won’t even be posted by then. If JMU is your dream school, then of course you would wait, but if it is not your first choice, why would you wait until mid April?</p>

<p>Why wouldn’t you?</p>

<p>I agree, if you’ve got a first choice and no other school is in 2nd place, maybe you go ahead and accept. But if you’re waiting to see what all your options are, waiting to see on financial aid or scholarship packages, waiting to hear on Honors college acceptances, why not wait until mid-April? What does the applicant lose?</p>

<p>Last year my nephew was accepted by every college he applied to except a couple of Ivies. It came down to Rutgers and Lafayette. Lafayette was way more expensive and didn’t send its aid offer until late April. He chose Rutgers because he can graduate debt-free; his housing application was tight but he got it in in time.</p>

<p>This year my son heard from choices #4, #5, and #6 by mid-February. Now he’s waiting on JMU, UVa, and W&M. If he’s accepted by all six, the choice will probably come down to JMU and UVa – unless one of the privates ups its scholarship offer. JMU will become more attractive if he makes the Honors program. So if he has to wait until April 10th to hear on JMU’s Honors, and has to wait until April 15th to hear on additional aid, what’s the harm?</p>

<p>I am sorry, but I can’t understand ever accepting JMU over UVA. UVA is ranked in the top 5 for the entire nation regarding public universities. I am just curious why even with honors you would place it above a near IVY college, is it due to size, location, program/major?</p>

<p>In which case UVa would be your #1 and no other school is in second place. So maybe you go ahead and accept, like I said.</p>

<p>In my son’s case, he really likes the campus at JMU and had a really good visit with one of the profs in the dept he’d major in. He liked the dorms, and the Honors program has air-conditioned dorms – to put it delicately, he sweats his brains out in warm weather and has pretty bad allergies which have already kicked in for the season. If he can land one of the 2nd Century Scholarships he can go to JMU for $20K less, over four years, than UVA. And several of his best friends from HS have JMU as their top pick. What’s not to like? His goal, if he goes to JMU, is to set himself up for an M.S. at UVA. To be sure, that’s not how I’d do things; but it’s his life, not mine.</p>

<p>BTW, today he received an offer for an additional $2500 yearly from one of the privates that’s already accepted him. So that school is now less expensive than UVa, but not nearly as good a school.</p>

<p>Last year JMU had its acceptances out by March 22nd. No telling what the snow did to schedules, but I’m expecting we’ll be hearing within the next week.</p>

<p>I’m starting to get really tense. I’m thinkin’ the big email is coming on Monday.</p>

<p>I think Monday too.
Faint!</p>

<p>Last year e-mails went out on the 24th, not the 22nd – sorry. The 24th was a Tuesday last year, Wednesday this year. My guess is midweek.</p>

<p>Ahhhhhh I can’t wait that long! This is driving me up the wazoo.</p>

<p>You sound like me, years ago. Good luck to you.</p>

<p>Dude I’m obsessed! I’ve been checking my email at the top of every hour AND at half past, and it’s SUNDAY. </p>

<p>I really do think tomorrow is decision day though…</p>

<p>Hahah! Me too…
I have all my email accounts on my phone, so every time it alerts me saying I have an email, and it’s in the one I use for colleges, I do a little happy dance only to find it’s some time of spam -_-
I’m going say that Wednesday is decision day, just so I don’t end up being an anxious wreck tomorrow!
However, I still check my email and the JMU website every few seconds.
I do that almost as much as I check my grades online xD</p>

<p>Good luck to all~</p>

<p>I am guessing Tuesday is the day. Good luck to everyone!!</p>

<p>I can’t sleep haha, just becaused tomorrow MIGHT be decision day. Literally tossing and turning thinking about it.</p>

<p>Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh</p>

<p>Well thankfully I was able to sleep last night!
See? That’s why I put it in my mind that it’d be Wednesday =P
And if the email doesn’t come BY Wednesday . . . well then I’ll have to worry and not be able to go to sleep xD</p>

<p>Email came today!! Like a few hours ago!
Check your email! and good luck!</p>