<p>I'm a senior in high school from pa trying to decide whether to go to jmu or ud my gpa is a 3.917 and my sat is 1760 but my Act is a 27. I plan to major in business specifically Accounting. I play baseball and am looking to try to walk on and play as well can anyone tell me which school is better for me and my chances of getting into jmu or into ud</p>
<p>I think you have a chance at both. JMU is a little easier to get in to. We looked at both schools. Some similarities in look and feel. JMU is more remote. 2 hours from a big city, while Delaware is closer to cities. While neither school is well known outside the northeast, I think del. is a little more prestigious. Certainly, better known in our neck of the woods.
Either way, you can have a great college experience</p>
<p>Not sure it is true UD is harder to get into than JMU. According to the current USNews data on the two, JMU’s SAT score is higher than UD’s…</p>
<p>UD is a great school by the way - both schools are sort of in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>You should be okay at both schools. My D had comparable stats and a 27 ACT and got in to both last year.</p>
<p>UD is far more centrally located than JMU being closer to Philly Baltimore, NYC and DC. Amtrak which goes to straight to the heart of all of those (and directlly to BWI airport) stops right on campus. Main Street makes Newark a great college town with lots of places to grab a bite, fancier places to eat and lots of stores. There’s a great natural foods coop and a sweet farmers market much of the year. Even a supermarket a bike ride away. </p>
<p>Though this is admittedly subjective, I think the UD campus is much more attractive and cohesively laid out (so long as you like the red brick). JMU’s layout is…strange… for a major campus. It is bisected by a major highway (US 81) and a set of railroad tracks. The area of campus you first enter to visit is kind of ugly, with no stores or restaurants nearby and buildings built in a jumble of discordant architectures which in some places are set too close together. The old gray and slate part of the campus around the quad though is quite attractive, I can’t understand why they don’t start their tours there. We also didn’t see any sort of college town restaurants or stores in Harrisonburg comparable to Newark. That said, JMU students seem to be quite happy there and there may be a bit more sports school spirit at JMU than UD.</p>
<p>My D picked UD and is very happy there.</p>
<p>JMU and UD are very similar universities. UD has about 2,000 more students but both are mid-sized universities (around 20,000 students). Both have excellent academics and are very competitive for admission. I feel with the stats you have you would have a good chance of getting into both schools. Students at both schools study hard Sundays thru Thursdays and then do their share of “partying” Thursday thru Saturday nights. There is a preponderance of women at both schools (not bad for the guys). Students at both are generally friendly, most are very serious about their studies, and seem happy to be there. My D graduated from UD last year with her BSN. Several of her friends were accounting majors and are now working for top line accounting firms in NYC. They were able to do internship programs at these firms during the summers they were at UD. The Business School at UD is advancing greatly (the relatively new President at UD was the Dean of the Wharton School at Penn before coming to UD).</p>
<p>So what are the differences between the schools? UD is a major research university with over 50 PhD programs offered. JMU has relatively few PhD programs (I think only about 5). UD is in the midst of a massive building campaign focusing on Science, Engineering, and Technology to further advance its research activities. There is probably at least some “trickle down” benefit for undergraduates from these reseach activities. Both are public institutions but their student makeup is different. JMU is about 70% Virginia students while at UD 2/3rds of the students are from OOS. This gives UD more of a “feel” of a private university as comparerd to a public one.</p>
<p>You really can’t go wrong at either school as long as you apply yourself and study hard. As far as baseball is concerned JMU and UD are in the same conference (Colonial Athletic Association), so I would guess thay are at a similar level of competitiveness, so probably your chances of walking on and playing would be about the same at either school (again just a guess). Hope this info is helpful. Best wishes to you.</p>