<p>More than 21,200 students applied for the 3,960 spaces available for this year's freshman class. You should feel quite proud of your acceptance to the university in light of the tremendous competition.</p>
<p>Are they saying that only 19% of the students were admitted? Or is that just clever wording that makes it seem so?</p>
<p>I'm guessing it's just clever wording. There may be only 3960 spaces, but they usually have to admit like twice than that to meet their yield, right?</p>
<p>I don't know if I'm figuring this properly but last year, according to USNWR, 18,352 applied and 11,660 were accepted or 63%. Of that, 3,867 actually enrolled or one out of three offered a slot actually enrolled.</p>
<p>So, of the 3,960 spaces available this year, assume they sent acceptance letters to around 11+K again. So again, about 1 in 3 who are accepted will actually enroll is what they're figuring, I guess. </p>
<p>Of course, last year's economy is nothing like this year's. So if 2 out of 3 accept, what will they do then?</p>
<p>i dont know, but bump</p>
<p>According to the JMU website…</p>
<p>2008 - 2009 Freshman Class Profile</p>
<h1>Applications: 19,600</h1>
<h1>Applicants accepted: 58%</h1>
<h1>Applicants enrolled: 3,967</h1>
<p>So for 2008/09 11,000+ accepted.</p>
<p>If JMU accepts the same number of students for the 2009/10 admissions cycle to yield 3,967, then this year the acceptance rate would be around 55%…</p>
<p>However, none of us know if they used the same yield formula this year…</p>