University of Georgia

[Anonymous]

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGuTLnOCBq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Here are the stats for the early action accepted (not enrolled) class of 2027:

1370-1510 SAT and 32-34 ACT (and all applicants were required to submit scores)

4.16-4.38 GPA and 8-13 AP Classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGuTLnOCBq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Here are the stats for the early action accepted (not enrolled) class of 2027:

1370-1510 SAT and 32-34 ACT (and all applicants were required to submit scores)

4.16-4.38 GPA and 8-13 AP Classes

1370 is 94-95 percentile. The low range of kids accepted to Georgia is a top 5-6 percentile test score? That's absurd for what is a really good school. DC is IB diploma candidate so will have the requisite APs and GPA but not close on the test score. So glad this will be over soon.

[Anonymous]

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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"

The top school in GA is Emory, those are the top public schools.

Nonsense.

UGA is a distant 3rd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGuTLnOCBq/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Here are the stats for the early action accepted (not enrolled) class of 2027:

1370-1510 SAT and 32-34 ACT (and all applicants were required to submit scores)

4.16-4.38 GPA and 8-13 AP Classes

1370 is 94-95 percentile. The low range of kids accepted to Georgia is a top 5-6 percentile test score? That's absurd for what is a really good school. DC is IB diploma candidate so will have the requisite APs and GPA but not close on the test score. So glad this will be over soon.

How is that even possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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"

The top school in GA is Emory, those are the top public schools.

Nonsense.

UGA is a distant 3rd.

Actually UGA and Gatech are very close in ranking so UGA could easily be 2nd in GA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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"

The top school in GA is Emory, those are the top public schools.

Nonsense.

UGA is a distant 3rd.

Actually UGA and Gatech are very close in ranking so UGA could easily be 2nd in GA.

+1 And the football team winning will give UGA a big boost. Don't underestimate how appealing that looks, even to those that are top students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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"

The top school in GA is Emory, those are the top public schools.

Nonsense.

UGA is a distant 3rd.

Actually UGA and Gatech are very close in ranking so UGA could easily be 2nd in GA.

+1 And the football team winning will give UGA a big boost. Don't underestimate how appealing that looks, even to those that are top students.

True but it was academic common market that has raised the quality of southern schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't believe this went 3 pages without the usual "Southern" school bashing...refreshing.

I love Southern schools. Regardless of my feelings, many non-Southerners attend universities in the South. South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama are examples of this. Only 39% of the undergraduate students at the University of Alabama are residents of Alabama. The University of Georgia has a pretty sophisticated student body. And the University of South Carolina has been targeting students from the Northeast for about 2 decades.

Even Ole Miss is getting lots of apps from non-Southerners.

The only refuge left seems to be Arkansas.

Not sure if we consider Texas the south, but Arkansas is hugely popular with kids from Dallas/ATX/Houston. Metro areas in Missouri, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't believe this went 3 pages without the usual "Southern" school bashing...refreshing.

I love Southern schools. Regardless of my feelings, many non-Southerners attend universities in the South. South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama are examples of this. Only 39% of the undergraduate students at the University of Alabama are residents of Alabama. The University of Georgia has a pretty sophisticated student body. And the University of South Carolina has been targeting students from the Northeast for about 2 decades.

Even Ole Miss is getting lots of apps from non-Southerners.

The only refuge left seems to be Arkansas.

Not sure if we consider Texas the south, but Arkansas is hugely popular with kids from Dallas/ATX/Houston. Metro areas in Missouri, too.

Per 2022-2023 Common Data Set,over half of undergrads at U Ark are from OOS. Not sure which states exactly.

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard is losing its cachet. It’s losing its prestige. Does anyone know why?

[Anonymous]

UGA throws out your GPA and uses their own formula. So when you are looking at reported GPA averages it is based on their formula. They only take into account English, Math, Science, History, and foreign language and they weight them each on a 4.0 scale, giving an A a 4.0, a B a 3.0, and so on. When you have your final number you add one point for every AP or DE class you have taken and that is how their averages increase above a 4.0. When my daughter was accepted in 2021 the incoming freshman GPA average was a 4.13. That shows you that most kids have only A's and most have quite a few AP and DE classes. UGA is an extremely hard school to get into from out of state. She was the first one from her high school in over 10 years to get in. She went there, but transferred out. During football season the campus was lively on home game weekends. However, often times because a lot of kids have cars and live close by they go home on weekends. She felt very isolated because it is a big party school. The bars in downtown Athens do not check ID's closely so lots of underage drinking. Greek life is expensive so she had to rule that out. And you must always walk with a buddy. Crime has moved into the Athens area for sure. So, whoever said this was an easy school to get into has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Their admissions Dean is very transparent on his blog with numbers and statisitics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UGA throws out your GPA and uses their own formula. So when you are looking at reported GPA averages it is based on their formula. They only take into account English, Math, Science, History, and foreign language and they weight them each on a 4.0 scale, giving an A a 4.0, a B a 3.0, and so on. When you have your final number you add one point for every AP or DE class you have taken and that is how their averages increase above a 4.0. When my daughter was accepted in 2021 the incoming freshman GPA average was a 4.13. That shows you that most kids have only A's and most have quite a few AP and DE classes. UGA is an extremely hard school to get into from out of state. She was the first one from her high school in over 10 years to get in. She went there, but transferred out. During football season the campus was lively on home game weekends. However, often times because a lot of kids have cars and live close by they go home on weekends. She felt very isolated because it is a big party school. The bars in downtown Athens do not check ID's closely so lots of underage drinking. Greek life is expensive so she had to rule that out. And you must always walk with a buddy. Crime has moved into the Athens area for sure. So, whoever said this was an easy school to get into has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Their admissions Dean is very transparent on his blog with numbers and statisitics.

Good to know.. So they ignore - and +? i.e. B-, B and B+ are counted as B (3.0)? Also, do they add any weight to Honors classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UGA throws out your GPA and uses their own formula. So when you are looking at reported GPA averages it is based on their formula. They only take into account English, Math, Science, History, and foreign language and they weight them each on a 4.0 scale, giving an A a 4.0, a B a 3.0, and so on. When you have your final number you add one point for every AP or DE class you have taken and that is how their averages increase above a 4.0. When my daughter was accepted in 2021 the incoming freshman GPA average was a 4.13. That shows you that most kids have only A's and most have quite a few AP and DE classes. UGA is an extremely hard school to get into from out of state. She was the first one from her high school in over 10 years to get in. She went there, but transferred out. During football season the campus was lively on home game weekends. However, often times because a lot of kids have cars and live close by they go home on weekends. She felt very isolated because it is a big party school. The bars in downtown Athens do not check ID's closely so lots of underage drinking. Greek life is expensive so she had to rule that out. And you must always walk with a buddy. Crime has moved into the Athens area for sure. So, whoever said this was an easy school to get into has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Their admissions Dean is very transparent on his blog with numbers and statisitics.

Good to know.. So they ignore - and +? i.e. B-, B and B+ are counted as B (3.0)? Also, do they add any weight to Honors classes?

They do not weigh for honors just AP which makes it a particularly difficult admit for local private schools. In contrast, GaTech will look at rigor in the context of an applicant’s school.

[Anonymous]

Ga Tech waitlisted a NMF and UGA only accepted a kid with a 4.7 from our oos school. Anyone who dismisses these schools as easy admits has no idea what they’re talking about and is just prejudiced because they’re southern schools. Suggesting these as “safeties” is setting your kid up for a real blow to their ego.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ga Tech waitlisted a NMF and UGA only accepted a kid with a 4.7 from our oos school. Anyone who dismisses these schools as easy admits has no idea what they’re talking about and is just prejudiced because they’re southern schools. Suggesting these as “safeties” is setting your kid up for a real blow to their ego.

Agree. Also, while GA tech is a high-end school for Engineering/cs, UGA is just a run of the mill state school. No reason to pine for admission there when there are plenty of other similar options around.