Admission Traffic Lights
David Graves September 25th, 2019
I am not sure what this says about me, but I think traffic lights are awesome. Maybe I just played Red Light/Green Light a little too much as a kid. But traffic lights bring order to what could be chaos, give people subtle and not so subtle alerts about what to do, and overall they […]
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Tags: deadlines, essays, freshman admission, myths, recommendations
So The Application Is Open, Now What
David Graves September 5th, 2019
The UGA Freshman application opened up on September 1, and in the first 4 days, roughly 7,000 students started an application. We generally have a small spike of students start the application right away, but only about 200 have actually submitted the app right now, so don’t panic if you have not started. But now […]
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Tags: applications, deadlines, Early Action, freshman admission, Regular Decision
Playing on the Same Court
David Graves August 8th, 2019
Hoosiers There are a few movies everyone has where, if it appears on-screen when you are channel surfing, you have to stop and watch at least a few scenes. Hoosiers, where an underdog basketball team from the small town of Hickory, Indiana and their outsider coach overcome personal struggles to make it to the Indiana […]
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Tags: context, file reading, freshman admission, holistic
Study Abroad – Student and Parent Perspectives
David Graves July 25th, 2019
This May, my daughter Amelia (rising junior majoring in International Affairs and Political Science and applying for the Double Dawgs program in Public Administration) participated in a month long Study Abroad program in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She was able to learn more about the political systems in Africa, and as well get an understanding of […]
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Tags: study abroad, UGA
New Blog Look, Same Great Taste
David Graves July 19th, 2019
Stranger Things-One of the best shows on TV right now, at least for me that is. It brings back all my old high school memories, from Dungeons & Dragons, Back to the Future and being a teenager in the 1980’s. One highlighted image memory from the show was when Coca Cola decided to introduce New […]