THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, March 3, 1996 TAG: 9603030074
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: HARRISONBURG LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
A record number of high school seniors has applied to James Madison University for admission next fall.
School admission officials said Friday they had received applications from 13,612 students, 8.3 percent more than the 12,573 who applied for admission to the current freshman class. That's also more than the previous high - the 13,550 who sought a place in the class that entered in the fall of 1988.
Alan L. Cerveny, JMU's associate vice president for admissions and enrollment services, said that breaking the 1988-89 record is significant in that statistics show there were nearly 10 percent more high school graduates in Virginia in 1988 - 66,731 - than there are today - 60,000.
Those figures indicate that more than 12 percent of all Virginia graduating seniors have applied to JMU.
JMU received nearly 8,000 in-state applications and more than 5,000 from students out of state, Cerveny said Friday. by CNB