2019 Freshman Wait List
David Graves March 15th, 2019
We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 15th, in the late afternoon timeframe. 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 […]
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2019 Freshmen Final Admits
David Graves March 15th, 2019
We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 15th, in the late afternoon time frame. 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 […]
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Tags: final decisions, freshman admission
2019 Freshman Denial
David Graves March 15th, 2019
We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available today, March 15th in the late afternoon time frame. Unfortunately, we are 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 […]
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Tags: denial, freshman admission
Admissions, Baseball and the Land of Statistics
David Graves February 27th, 2019
When I was growing up in Connecticut, baseball was my passion. My sister was a NY Yankees fan, so naturally I became a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. I lived and died (mostly died) with the Red Sox, and my hero was Jim Rice, the home run hitting left fielder for my beloved team. I […]
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Tags: freshman admission, statistics
The Past and Present of College Admissions
David Graves February 13th, 2019
You hear it all the time – “Back when I was applying to college …”. Yes, things have changed over the last 20+ years in admissions, but trust me, that is actually not a bad thing in many cases. I am currently reading a book titled “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling, and he writes about how, […]