Writing Great Short Response Essays
David Graves May 18th, 2015
As most college students and HS seniors can attest to, one of the most stressful times of the admission process is writing admissions essays. While UGA’s “essays” are actually short responses, we still see a great deal of angst and worry about them. Every year, I try to calm these fears by writing about the […]
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Tags: essays, freshman admission, new freshman, short responses
2015 Wait List Decisions
David Graves May 7th, 2015
Today we offered admission to about 90 or so students from the Wait List. We admitted a small number of students for Fall admission, but the majority of students admitted off the Wait List were offered admission for the Spring 2016 term. We will email this news to the students and give information about their […]
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Tags: freshman admission, waitlist
2015 Wait List Information
David Graves April 29th, 2015
For the next few weeks, the group that will be the most anxious about our process will be the students who are on the Wait List. Right now, we cannot give out any specific information, as we will not know about deposits until over a week past the May 1 deposit deadline, as we must […]
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Tags: freshman admission, waitlist
Updated Fall 2015 Transfer Information
David Graves April 20th, 2015
The review of the 2015 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 1,500 decisions of the 2700 applications we received this year. In addition, roughly 350-400 of the 2,700 files are incomplete and thus will not […]
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Tags: transfer, transfer admissions
2015 Fall Transfer Update
David Graves March 31st, 2015
We are continuing to focus as much time as possible to review the 2015 Fall transfer applications. At this time, we have made roughly 750 decisions of the 2550 applications we received so far this year (I project about 2,700 applicants total after the 4/1 deadline). Based on last weeks numbers, we are averaging about […]