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 Final Decision date

  David Graves      March 24th, 2014

Yes, the question that all freshmen applicants (and their parents) have been asking again and again can finally be answered. Final decisions for freshmen applicants are scheduled to be released on Friday, March 28 (unless something catastrophic occurs). As is normal, we will open up the status check sometime late afternoon on Friday (please do […]

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2013 Early Action Decision Release Update

  David Graves      November 20th, 2013

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 22 in the late afternoon, unless some serious problem arises, which I do not expect. If this changes, […]

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2013 Early Action Update-Closing In

  David Graves      November 13th, 2013

If you have checked your myStatus page today, you will see the above image. What does this mean? Exactly what it says. At this time, the Status Check is closed so we can move forward with final preparations for decisions, and we will release them by November 27. Does that mean we will release them […]

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Are We There Yet? – Early Action Edition

  David Graves      November 6th, 2013

“Are we there yet?” Admit it, you have said this phrase to your parents before-everybody has. If you are on a long car ride, the first thing you want to know is when you will arrive. And while the wonderful GPS system can give you a rough approximation, you can never tell when something unexpected […]

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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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2013 Admitted Freshman

  David Graves      March 22nd, 2013

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 6PM today. For those of you who have been admitted to UGA, here is a post for you and a chance to comment.  Please remember that this is not a blog where you should post statistics or throw fellow students under the bus. […]

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2013 Denied Freshman

  David Graves      March 22nd, 2013

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 6PM today.   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 you focus on […]

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The Elephant Parable, 2013 Edition

  David Graves      March 21st, 2013

As the end of March approaches, First Year decisions will soon be available.  Every year after these decisions, there are a wave of unhappy comments about specific decisions.  For the past several years we have had a post about the importance of knowing everything about a situation before judging it.  Below is a re-post of […]

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A Small Wave of February Freshman Admission

  David Graves      February 22nd, 2013

We have just offered admission to a small wave of freshman applicants. These few Regular Decision applicants met the stringent academic criteria of Early Action admission that we had used with our much larger wave of December admission. Do not panic if you were not admitted with this February ripple.  We are still very much […]

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