<p>I thought I read the ratio of student body was more girls than boys. So do boys have better chances of getting in? Just wondering.</p>
<p>I don't believe that males have a better chance of admission. I used to think that, but numbers show otherwise. Two years ago there were 7,099 male applicants. 3,863 were accepted. There were 10,666 female applicants and 7294 were accepted. 2434 females and 1314 of the students who got in decided to enroll. These are numbers from the USNews.</p>
<p>No, males don't get accepted more than females. How is that possible with a 70/30 ratio? </p>
<p>Huh????</p>
<p>it is now common knowledge that males of all ethnicities have an easier time getting into college than females, especially white females, by all statistics available. and that's simply a matter of more girls than guys apply and go to college! ( there are interesting threads on this trend on CC.) of course the quality of each candidate still matters.( this might relate to northeastmom's post.) but in general, a strong male applicant will get in to college over the equally strong female. colleges are always looking to provide the public with their best possible demographics(the PR part of college presentations). so they'll always favor far away, geographically kids, males over females, various underepresented ethnic groups, etc. IF the kids are decent students.</p>
<p>My son is applying to JMU and we checked the commondata and it appears girls have a better chance of getting accepted. For the year 2006-2007,
3863 males accepted out of 7099 male applicants = 54%
7274 females accepted out of 10666 female applicants = 68%
These numbers match northeastmom. </p>
<p>The reason more females are accepted might be the quality of the female applicant pool. All the schools my son is looking at have a higher acceptance rate for females. This goes counter to what most people say.</p>
<p>JMU is rarely a first choice school. Most of the smart males are at W&M, UVA or Virginia Tech. Also 65% of all college applicants are female...............throughout the country. The quality of the applicant pool at JMU leans more towards females. </p>
<p>The Common Data Set is telling. JMU is very GPA driven. Girls just seem to have cornered the market these days on high GPA's. This is nothing new. JMU does have a dominant estrogen laced campus and it's quite noticeable even with 16K students. I have a sibling who goes to JMU. He loves it by the way. Very happy students at JMU.</p>
<p>Boys wouldn't have a hard time getting accepted to JMU if their GPA's were higher. JMU would certainly love to even their ratio's out. It's just not easy when they are so GPA focused.</p>
<p>again, i've said this on a couple of other posts, but jmu is one of the few schools that i know of that looks at the complete package. uva, tech, w&m? not so much. you either have the gpa or you're screwed (accept in a few rare instances). the majority of the people i met coming in my freshman year had 3.9 and 4.0 gpas, which means that there must be a pretty significant contingent of lower than 3.7 to level that out. i personally had a 3.1 and was still fine. and as for the ratio, current statistics from jmu's site put it at 61.5% female to a 38.5% male contingency. not quite as extreme as some people believe. another thing to keep in mind is that jmu has a goal to reach 21,500 students by the year 2013 with a current size of about 16,500. chances improve greatly with numbers like that.</p>
<p>I agree with phillibuster's post.</p>
<p>I honestly don't think they care what the gender of their applicant is, and they just tak the best students that they can get.</p>
<p>Out of all the Virginia colleges, JMU is the most conscientious and I feel they look at their applicants the most holistically out of any Virginia college.</p>