2017 Short Essay Questions (for RD and Deferred EA applicants only)
David Graves June 13th, 2016
Every year, our office reviews the freshman application for changes that we would like to see for the next year. During this review, we also look at the short essay questions that are required for First Year applicants who apply Regular Decision or are deferred Early Action (Early Action applicants do not submit essays unless […]
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Tags: defer, essays, Regular Decision
UGA Orientation
David Graves June 1st, 2016
Summer is upon us, and that means one thing (at least in admissions that is): Orientation! If you are a new student to UGA, you are required to attend an Orientation session (and you get to meet the Orientation Leaders in the photo!). In order to have a successful time at Orientation, you need to […]
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Tags: holds, orientation, test scores, transcripts
UGA and the New SAT
David Graves May 12th, 2016
As everyone probably knows, the College Board started offering the newly redesigned SAT test in March of 2016, and the Essay portion is now optional. This new SAT (which I am calling the SAT R for now), will impact freshman applicants starting in the Summer/Fall of 2017 and beyond. UGA will continue to accept both […]
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Tags: SAT, test scores
2016 Wait List Update
David Graves May 11th, 2016
We have started offering admission to a small group of students from the Wait List, with a large majority of these being for the Spring 2017 term. Due to the fact that our deposit numbers are at the level that we predicted for Summer/Fall, we are limited in the number of offers we are able […]
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Tags: waitlist
2016 Fall Transfer Update
David Graves April 14th, 2016
The review of the 2016 Fall transfer applications is our key focus at this time, and we continue to diligently work on these files. At this time, we have made roughly 1,100 decisions of the 2500 applications we received this year. In addition, roughly 300 of the 2,500 files are incomplete and thus will not […]