First Year Decisions, May 1 and Mid-May

  David Graves      April 30th, 2013

As the Wednesday, May 1 national commitment deadline for accepted First Year students approaches, we are receiving a flood of questions from UGA applicants who had agreed to join our Wait List. Our advice to all is to remember the key word in Wait List is wait.  Just as airlines can’t assign standby passengers to […]

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First Year Academic Merit Scholarships Awarded

  David Graves      April 23rd, 2013

 Over the last several weeks the Admissions staff has carefully reviewed all our newly admitted First Year students to consider them for University of Georgia academic merit scholarships.  (See the list and our discussion of merit and need-based aid at our website, https://admissions.uga.edu/article/scholarships-at-uga.html.)  Virtually all scholarships available through Admissions have now been awarded, and we […]

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3 April QuickNotes: First Year Students, Transfers, and New Transient or Study Abroad Applicants

  David Graves      April 10th, 2013

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS:  Have you changed your mind about when you want to begin your freshman enrollment at UGA? May 15 is the last date for Accepted Fall 2013 freshmen to request a switch from starting in Fall Semester to starting Summer Semester.  The big deadline:  Your acceptance deposit must be received no later than […]

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A First Look at 2013 Admitted Freshmen Credentials

  David Graves      March 29th, 2013

UGA once again attracted an exceptionally strong applicant pool this year.  Competition for admission was stronger than ever.  Our 21,000 applications were a significant increase over last year, but it was unfortunately not balanced with an equivalent increase in the number of possible spaces for enrolled freshmen, around 5,200.  This goal still allowed us to […]

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2013 Freshman Decisions are Available

  David Graves      March 22nd, 2013

Final freshman decisions are now available online.  We had a very strong applicant pool this year! We had about 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.  We […]

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