Thinking about applying to JMU. Looking for anybody’s thoughts on housing, academics (preferably business related), food, and social life (clubs,parties, etc)
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Hey, I’m a freshman at JMU so hopefully I can answer some of your questions. For housing there are five options or general areas for freshman students and several dorms in each area. They can be found on the JMU website which has an excellent description of each dorm as well as a virtual tour of a standard room in each dorm. When you sign up for housing you put your preference for dorm area, I got my third choice but it has been fine. All of the dorms have wifi and many have air conditioning.
I went to a very rigorous High School and was in 7 AP classes and I find JMU to be very similar in regards to the level of difficulty that I faced in High School. I am not a business major so I can’t help you on that part, but I do know that JMU has a very good business school that leads to good jobs.
The food at JMU is really awesome, there are so many options that sometimes it seems like there is too much to choose from. Almost every day I have a custom egg white omelette for breakfast, sushi for lunch, and dumplings or stir fry for dinner. There are so many options and all of them are yummy.
Parties are almost always off campus but are very easy to get to and are all within a 10-15 min walk, many of the frat houses only let in guys if they are bringing a bunch of girls with them but I suspect that this is the same at every college. There are also apartment parties and plenty of things to do and go to. For clubs there are a lot at JMU and almost all of them are really fun, I would suggest joining a few rather than a ton because many take up time each week so you have to make sure you balance your schedule so that you can get good grades.
Hope this helps! Honestly JMU is the best place ever and I can’t imagine being happy at any other school. 