University of Georgia

[Anonymous]

Anyone have children that applied this year? How has the process gone?

Have family in state and DC is interested in applying next year.

[Anonymous]

Easy.

W school lots of admits.

1 or two will go, the rest it was a safety

[Anonymous]

I've heard the transcript needs to be 85% A's and no more than 15% B's. That basically means one B per year. Do that, and score an above-average SAT/ACT score and your chances are quite decent.

It's quite a change from 30 years ago, that's for sure.

There really are very few "safety" schools that are also major flagship universities. Clearly, there are some exceptions but other than Bama and the two Mississippi schools, the SEC schools are getting much harder to get in to.

[Anonymous]

Deferred 4.3 gpa and 33 act, 9 APs and lots of ECs. Oos acceptance rate is getting lower every year.

[Anonymous]

They require tests scores

[Anonymous]

The University of Georgia became quite competitive due to lottery funded scholarships for Georgia residents (Hope Scholarship & Zell Miller Scholarship) in addition to the Atlanta region's booming economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The University of Georgia became quite competitive due to lottery funded scholarships for Georgia residents (Hope Scholarship & Zell Miller Scholarship) in addition to the Atlanta region's booming economy.

Exactly. Don't get too obsessed. It is still UGA. Lots of drinking and not a ton of academics going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of Georgia became quite competitive due to lottery funded scholarships for Georgia residents (Hope Scholarship & Zell Miller Scholarship) in addition to the Atlanta region's booming economy.

Exactly. Don't get too obsessed. It is still UGA. Lots of drinking and not a ton of academics going on.

This is not what I intended to convey by my post that you quoted.

The University of Georgia is outstanding for those who can get admitted into the Honors College (no longer just an Honors Program due to an additional $10 million in funding) or to the University Fellows. Highly academic setting for those groups. The rest of the university students are intelligent, but how they handle their college years is up to them.

The Atlanta area is full of wealth & the sons & daughters of sophisticated business persons. Every Fortune 500 company has some type of HQ in the Atlanta area--or at least did. Could be worldwide HQ, national HQ, or regional HQ.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Atlanta and would have rather died than go to UGA; it was the "hick school" My oh my have times have changed! It is very difficult OOS to get into and it quite hard in-state. The top schools in GA (UGA and GT) are the cream of the crop currently. I would never have predicted it! For reference I got into UNC CH OOS so things were definitely easier back "in the day"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of Georgia became quite competitive due to lottery funded scholarships for Georgia residents (Hope Scholarship & Zell Miller Scholarship) in addition to the Atlanta region's booming economy.

Exactly. Don't get too obsessed. It is still UGA. Lots of drinking and not a ton of academics going on.

This is not what I intended to convey by my post that you quoted.

The University of Georgia is outstanding for those who can get admitted into the Honors College (no longer just an Honors Program due to an additional $10 million in funding) or to the University Fellows. Highly academic setting for those groups. The rest of the university students are intelligent, but how they handle their college years is up to them.

The Atlanta area is full of wealth & the sons & daughters of sophisticated business persons. Every Fortune 500 company has some type of HQ in the Atlanta area--or at least did. Could be worldwide HQ, national HQ, or regional HQ.

Are you under the impression that UGA is in "the Atlanta area"? It's not. And I used to live in Atlanta and am familiar with the state and city (and Athens, which is not in the Atlanta metro area).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Atlanta and would have rather died than go to UGA; it was the "hick school" My oh my have times have changed! It is very difficult OOS to get into and it quite hard in-state. The top schools in GA (UGA and GT) are the cream of the crop currently. I would never have predicted it! For reference I got into UNC CH OOS so things were definitely easier back "in the day"

Totally. I grew up in DC and UMD--what?!!

[Anonymous]

UGA has been a 4.0+ for several years. take any “easy” description with a grain of salt. Especially oos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of Georgia became quite competitive due to lottery funded scholarships for Georgia residents (Hope Scholarship & Zell Miller Scholarship) in addition to the Atlanta region's booming economy.

Exactly. Don't get too obsessed. It is still UGA. Lots of drinking and not a ton of academics going on.

🤷‍♂️ My son graduated last June and has a great job now.

[Anonymous]

UGA and FLA are hard to get into, so don't treat them as a likely or a safe school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGA and FLA are hard to get into, so don't treat them as a likely or a safe school.

Both are excellent and not easy easy to get into but UF is significantly higher than Georgia. The difference is the same as the difference between UF and Michigan. Just to point out as PP seemed to put them in same category. For those of you bashing Georgia—it is harder to get into OOS than UMD and I personally would prefer Athens to College Park. The entire Southeast recruits from Georgia and Georgia Tech.