The blog is written and monitored by David Graves, Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions. David has been the primary author for more than 15 years, sharing insights, timelines, decision explanations, and behind‑the‑scenes perspectives on UGA’s admissions process.
June 15, 2016 |
Act 1, Scene 1 of Deciding on Dinner. Setting is the family kitchen. Father, Mother, Son and Daughter are standing around the kitchen island: Dad: “I have a great idea. Who wants to go out to eat tonight?” Son (looking Read More >
June 13, 2016 |
2017 Short Essay Questions (for RD and Deferred EA applicants only)
Every year, our office reviews the freshman application for changes that we would like to see for the next year. During this review, we also look at the short essay questions that are required for First Year applicants who apply Read More >
June 2, 2016 |
Summer is upon us, and that means one thing (at least in admissions that is): Orientation! If you are a new student to UGA, you are required to attend an Orientation session (and you get to meet the Orientation Leaders Read More >
May 12, 2016 |
As everyone probably knows, the College Board started offering the newly redesigned SAT test in March of 2016, and the Essay portion is now optional. This new SAT (which I am calling the SAT R for now), will impact freshman Read More >
May 12, 2016 |
We have started offering admission to a small group of students from the Wait List, with a large majority of these being for the Spring 2017 term. Due to the fact that our deposit numbers are at the level that Read More >
April 14, 2016 |
The review of the 2016 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 1,100 decisions of the 2500 applications we received this Read More >
April 12, 2016 |
First Year Academic Merit Scholarships have been Awarded
Over the last several months 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 Read More >
April 2, 2016 |
April 1 Random Admission Thoughts
It is April 1, so we are juggling a wide range of things at this time. We are working with freshmen, transfers, deposits, recruiting future classes, orientation planning, etc. I am also in the middle of a large installation of Read More >
March 19, 2016 |
2016 Final Freshman Decisions are Available
Final freshman decisions are now available online. We had a very strong applicant pool this year! We had 23,000 applications, which was our largest applicant pool ever. Here are a few notes about decisions: Please do not have multiple family Read More >
March 18, 2016 |
We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available late afternoon today, March 18th. For those of you who have been admitted to UGA, here is a post for you and a chance to comment. Please remember that Read More >