Directions and Information

Application Features
Instructions Menu
Application Instructions
  1. Create your account.
    • Enter your account information exactly as instructed.
    • Click the 'Create My Account' button at the bottom.
    • Write down your username and password for future reference (i.e., when re-entering the system).

  2. Fill out your application.
    You can complete your application in any order and save your work and come back to it later - even from a different computer!
    • Use the navigation tools found on any of the pages to move forward and backward in the application.
    • To save what you have done so far without exiting, click the 'Save' button.
    • To save what you have done so far and exit (you will be taken to your Activity Log), click the 'Finish Session' or 'Save and Exit' button.
    • To reaccess your application to continue work on it, return to the application menu, select the application, and enter your username and password when prompted.

    All of your saves and transmissions are logged in your Activity Log for your review.

  3. Make corrections to your data.
    You may see a Data Correction Page when you move from page to page, or when you submit the application.
    A Data Correction Page appears if you have omitted a required field or entered data incorrectly. Fields needing correction will be highlighted and the error explained. You will also be able to postpone making corrections until you're ready to submit your application.

  4. Submit the application
    Check your application carefully. When you are satisfied with it and are ready to send it to us, click the send button at the bottom of the last page. This saves your data in their final application and takes you to the payment page where you pay your application fee online.

    Your application is not sent to us until you pay your application fee and it is authorized (step 5).

  5. Pay your application fee online.
    On the payment page, you can pay your application fee by debit/credit card or check (US bank accounts only).

    If you are paying by debit or credit card:
    • Provide all information, including the correct name on the credit card, the card number, expiration date, and card billing information.
    • Click the 'Submit this information' button.

    If you are paying by check: see instructions.

    Once payment is authorized, your application is on its way to us, and you can no longer make changes to it.

    Security Information: Your debit/credit card information is encrypted during transmission from your browser to our server and during payment authorization. None of your debit/credit card information is stored in our database.

  6. Check your Activity Log to print a copy of your application or to learn if we have received it.

  7. Close your browser program when you are ready to end your Web session.
    This clears your password and secure connection.
Hints for Completing Your Application
  • Select the appropriate residence and/or citizenship country code using the Search button: click the button and select your country code from the list. It will be entered automatically in the application.
  • Check your application carefully before sending it!
  • There are other requirements for admissions such as having transcripts and test scores sent to us. If school policy prohibits this, please mail your letter of recommendation directly to your JMU Admissions Counselor. A list of Admissions Counselors is available on the JMU Admissions web site.
Web Application Features
  • The application server stores the information you enter under the private username and password you establish.
  • You do not have to complete an application in one sitting. For example, you can start working on an application at your library's computer facility, save your work, access the application at home on your personal computer, and continue working from there. Wherever you have access to the Web, you have access to the information you have saved.
  • When you complete more than one application, common information you provided on the first is entered automatically in all subsequent applications. For example, if you have entered your name and address on an application and saved it, that information will be entered automatically on the next online application you access (assuming, of course, that the next application also has name and address fields). Also, if you change the information on one application, it is changed on all others.
  • Your data are transmitted securely over the Internet. The information you enter is encrypted and secure when you save it and when you send it. Although general data collected on the system may be used in statistical studies and reports designed to assist institutions with planning, any information bearing your personal identification is disclosed only to the department to which you send it.
  • When you save or transmit application information, a note appears in your Activity Log. You can easily check your Activity Log at any time to see your application activity and to learn when we have acknowledged receipt of your application.