2015 Wait List Information

  David Graves      April 29th, 2015

For the next few weeks, the group that will be the most anxious about our process will be the students who are on the Wait List. Right now, we cannot give out any specific information, as we will not know about deposits until over a week past the May 1 deposit deadline, as we must […]

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Unofficial 2015 Admitted Freshman Stats

  David Graves      March 25th, 2015

UGA once again attracted an exceptionally strong applicant pool this year.  Competition for admission was stronger than ever.  Over 22,200 applications made for an 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 a […]

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2015 Final Freshman Decisions are Now Available

  David Graves      March 20th, 2015

Final freshman decisions are now available online.  We had a very strong applicant pool this year! We had just over 22,200 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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2015 Admitted Freshman Post

  David Graves      March 20th, 2015

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by no earlier than 7:30 PM EST today, March 20th. 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 […]

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2015 Wait Listed Freshman Post

  David Graves      March 20th, 2015

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by  no later than 7:30 PM EST today, March 20th.   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 […]

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2015 Denied Freshman Post

  David Graves      March 20th, 2015

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by no earlier than 7:30 PM EST today, March 20th.   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 […]

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2015 Final Freshman Decisions

  David Graves      March 16th, 2015

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 20 (unless something catastrophic occurs). We will open up the status check no earlier than 7:30 p.m. EST on Friday and applicants […]

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2015 February Admits are Available

  David Graves      February 27th, 2015

The February freshman admission offers are now available on the myStatus page! This afternoon, UGA offered admission to a group of freshman applicants. In the past, this group has been approximately 1,800- 2,000 admits, and while I do not have an exact number, it is fairly close to this. This group of decisions is made […]

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2015 February Freshmen Admits

  David Graves      February 24th, 2015

Late afternoon on Friday, February 27, we will be releasing a small wave of First Year admission offers. These admitted students, who are primarily Regular Decision (RD) applicants, are applicants who meet the criteria that UGA admissions used for Early Action (EA) admits. Just to stop any questions, there are no set “EA criteria levels” […]

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Random Admission Thoughts, February 2015

  David Graves      February 11th, 2015

It is February, and we are deep into reading Freshman files, and just about to start reviewing transfer applications. As such, here are some thoughts about issues that usually pop up about now. Freshmen: At this time, our counselors are reading thousands upon thousands of freshman files in great detail, and it is a long […]

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