Grades vs Rigor, or What should my child take?

  David Graves      April 4th, 2014

Every day of every year (except for decision days), the most popular question asked of an admission counselor is “Is it better to take a tough HS course and make a B, or an average HS course and make an A?”. The most popular answer? A half-hearted smile and the statement ‘We would prefer an […]

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2014 Accepted Class Statistics

  David Graves      March 31st, 2014

UGA once again attracted an exceptionally strong applicant pool this year.  Competition for admission was stronger than ever.  Over 21,000 applications made for a slight increase over last year’s numbers, and our target goal for the freshman class is 5,200 students.  This goal still allowed us to offer admission to about 11,600 students. Here are […]

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Freshman Decisions are Available

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

Final freshman decisions are now available online.  We had a very strong applicant pool this year! We had just over 21,000 applications, which was our largest applicant pool ever.  Here are a few notes about decisions: Please do not have multiple family members try to log onto the myStatus.  This will slow down our serves. […]

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2014 Denied Freshman Information

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 5 PM today, March 28th.   Unfortunately, we were 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 and suggest […]

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2014 Wait List Freshman Information

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 5 PM today, March 28th.   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 we can […]

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