Posts Tagged ‘application changes’

Updated Transfer Consideration Levels for Spring 2025

In admissions, our role is not just to admit students, but also to analyze enrollment numbers, review UGA student success using academic data for admission decisions, and to work with our campus partners to help develop a strong UGA community. Read More >

2023 UGA Overall Admissions & Early Action

UGA Overall Admissions The UGA applicant pool has grown at a substantial rate recently. If you look at the number of applicants over the past 10 years, you will see tremendous growth in our applicant pool both in size and Read More >

Information on the UGA 2021 Application

Big News!! For the UGA Freshman 2021 application, the UGA Admissions Office will accept the Common Application as an option for prospective student applicants. Okay, now that you have recovered from your shock (it only took us 10+ years to Read More >

2020 Freshman Essay Questions

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. Based on Read More >

2015 Essay Questions

Every Spring, 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 >

Cancel or Correct?

Yesterday you filled out your application, paid with a credit card and hit SEND.  Today you look over your application one more time, and “Oops!!”  You forgot to mention being basketball team captain.  You miscalculated your A’s and B’s.  Your Read More >

Changing Application Information

You have submitted your admission application to UGA, when suddenly you come to the realization that your email, [email protected], might not be the most appropriate email address to use. You want to change it, but you are not sure what Read More >

First-Year Application is now available!

The UGA First-Year application is now open! As is our history, we normally open our First-Year application in mid-August, and it is generally on a Monday to make sure we are available if any minor issues arise. Please remember that Read More >

Thomas Edison and the Contact ID

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.                                                        Thomas Edison In our testing of the Contact ID system and the application, we have found that while it works well in production, at this time Read More >

New Step in the Admission Application

Sometime tomorrow, the Spring applications will be back up and running. In addition, I expect that on Monday, 8/16, the freshman application will be open and available to the public. While I have already mentioned a few changes to the Read More >

Freshman Application Changes Part IV

The last change that we will be making to the freshman application has to do with your high school grades. Over the last 6 years, the number of freshman applicants has grown from roughly 12,000 in 2005 to over 18,000 Read More >

Freshman Application Changes Part III

In reviewing the UGA admissions process and the information that we ask for on the application, we started looking at Part I and Part II of the application more closely. While the separation into two parts has worked well for Read More >

Freshman Application Changes Part II

As I said in an earlier post, there will be a few changes to the Freshman application this year. I will give you more information later this week on the other changes, but I want to go step by step Read More >

Spring Admission Deadline Changed to Sept. 1

Every May, a small group of UGA admissions people gather to discuss the past year’s admission cycle, and to look at the next year in order to plan out the admissions process for the future. We talk about what worked, Read More >

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