Random Admission Thoughts June 2014

  David Graves      June 11th, 2014

We have successfully made it through Year 1 of our new student system, and we have a great class of freshman coming in for orientation, and our Fall transfer decisions are at the end of the process. We just finished a meeting to discuss the changes for next year’s freshman application, and orientation seems to […]

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2014 Accepted Class Statistics

  David Graves      March 31st, 2014

UGA once again attracted an exceptionally strong applicant pool this year.  Competition for admission was stronger than ever.  Over 21,000 applications made for a slight 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 […]

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Freshman Decisions are Available

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

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

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2014 Admitted Freshman Information

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 5 PM today, March 28th. 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 […]

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2014 Wait List Freshman Information

  David Graves      March 28th, 2014

We plan to make the final wave of freshman decisions available by 5 PM today, March 28th.   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 class, but we can […]

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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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2014 February Freshman Admits

  David Graves      February 27th, 2014

This afternoon, UGA offered admission to a group of freshman applicants. In the past, this group has been approximately 2,000 or so admits, and while I do not have an exact number, it is fairly close to this average. Our office is too busy reviewing files for me to run any mid-range academic averages at […]

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2013 February First Year Admits

  David Graves      February 14th, 2014

In late February, we will be releasing a small wave of First Year admission offers. I do not have a specific date at this time, so please do not ask for one (we will post it here when decisions are released). As I have stated in earlier comments, these admitted students, who are primarily Regular […]

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January Application Updates

  David Graves      January 22nd, 2014

From January 1 through January 22 we have received approximately 5,200 applications, 4,400 documents from Parchment/Docufide, 2,800 transcripts from GAcollege411 and 8,500 teacher recommendations and high school evaluations from our online forms. That’s almost 16,000 documents in 22 days!   This does not include documents that were mailed in (I would guess about 50 bins […]

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