Admissions and Forrest Gump’s Box of Chocolates

  David Graves      March 21st, 2017

As Forrest Gump says, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get.” Undergraduate Admissions, especially during decision time, has some real connections to this this quote. Our post-decision interactions (mostly with denied students and families) many times involves an attempt to compare their own student with other admitted students […]

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2017 Freshman Admits

  David Graves      March 17th, 2017

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available late afternoon on March 17th. For those of you who have been admitted to UGA, here is a post for you and a chance to comment.  Please remember that this is not a blog where you should post statistics or throw fellow students under […]

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2017 Wait List Decisions

  David Graves      March 17th, 2017

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available late afternoon on March 17th.   For some students, you will be offered a place on our wait list.  Every year our office has to predict approximately how many students we can admit in order to enroll our freshman class, but we can never […]

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2017 Freshman Denials

  David Graves      March 17th, 2017

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available late afternoon on March 17th.   Unfortunately, we were not able to admit a number of strong applicants as we are limited in the size of our freshman class.  We know that you have a number of other strong college options and suggest you […]

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2017 Freshman Final Decisions

  David Graves      March 13th, 2017

Yes, the question that all freshmen applicants (and their parents) have been asking again and again can finally be answered. Final decisions for freshman applicants are scheduled to be released on Friday, March 17 (unless something catastrophic occurs). Decisions will be available on the status page sometime in the late afternoon on Friday (no do […]

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