Admissions and Grocery Stores
David Graves December 22nd, 2015
Imagine that you are in an admissions grocery store, and every cart is a student’s admissions file. The shelves are stocked with different items to fill each cart, from transcripts to teacher recommendations, counselor forms to resumes, etc. Every time a student applies a cart is created. The admissions office then needs to go to […]
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Tags: deadlines, documents, test scores
Random Admission Thoughts-Post EA Decisions
David Graves December 1st, 2015
We have made it past the Early Action decisions, and we are now at the next stages of the admission cycle. With that in mind, here are a few thoughts about what happens in Admissions and UGA from November to late March. Statistics – Some rough mid-50% statistics on accepted and deferred Early Action applicants: […]
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Early Action Decisions are Now Available
David Graves November 20th, 2015
Early Action decisions are now available online! You can view the press release with some statistics about EA students who were admitted here. For students who were deferred, please understand that this is not a denial decision. We want to be able to have a more in-depth review of you, including short essays, activities, recommendations, […]
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Tags: admissions, decisions, defer, Early Action
Admissions-The Long Road
David Graves November 19th, 2015
In the past, I have used the image of a long cross country trip when looking at the Admissions process, and how we would not know the exact arrival time until we were almost to the destination. Now picture the Admissions process as a road trip with three legs to the journey. The first leg […]
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Tags: defer, Early Action, file reading
2016 Early Action Decision Timeline
David Graves November 11th, 2015
For all of you who are waiting anxiously by your computer/mailbox, nervous about your Early Action decision, here is some good news. UGA is planning on releasing the EA decisions on the myStatus page on Friday, November 20 in the late afternoon, unless some serious problem arises, which I do not expect. If this changes, […]