IS versus OOS

<p>Which is more competitive for JMU?
In-State or Out-of-State?</p>

<p>both are pretty difficult but out of state is more difficult because theres only about a 30% acceptance rate for out of state applicants. I was oos last year and was waitlisted and accepted off the waitlist in june. A lot of my friends who were oos as well were waitlisted.</p>

<p>how does the waitlisting work?
isn’t it too late to enroll in june?</p>

<p>Once you are waitlisted you have to decide if you if you actually want to be on the waitlist. Then once all deposits are made for everyone deciding to attend which is after May 1st, they begin evaluating peoples applications who decided to accept the waitlist offering. Most of the acceptances off the waitlist occur in June but some are made in may and others are made throughout the summer. Once you have accept admission off the waitlist they send you information about sending your deposit and summer orientation.</p>

<p>I can’t find it now, but someone posted a while ago that the acceptance numbers were actually better for OOS students than in-state. The reasoning was that even though the OOS students are limited to 30%, there were far fewer OOS students applying vs. the in-state 70%. I don’t know where the numbers are to support that but I thought it was an interesting concept. Along the lines of a smaller denominator doesn’t need as big of a numerator.</p>

<p>There is a lot of guess work involved with trying to figure out who gets in or not and why.</p>

<p>I would also add that OOS students pay more - which makes them attractive in these budget conscious times.</p>

<p>JMU Data is here: [Search</a> JMU Applied, Accepted and Enrolled](<a href=“http://web.jmu.edu/oir/stdnt/vw_AAE.asp#Results]Search”>http://web.jmu.edu/oir/stdnt/vw_AAE.asp#Results)</p>

<p>For the 2010 entering class –</p>

<p>In-state:
Applied: 14,474
Accepted: 7725 (Rate: 57.3%)
Enrolled: 2283 (Yield: 36.0%)</p>

<p>Out-of-state:
Applied: 8747
Accepted: 5582 (Rate: 63.8% – not very different from IS)
Enrolled: 1218 (Yield: 21.8%)</p>

<p>Sorry – that should read –</p>

<p>In-state:
Applied: 14,474
Accepted: 7725 (Rate: 57.3%)
Enrolled: **2783<a href=“Yield:%2036.0%”>/B</a></p>