<p>The other week I recieved the crisp letter in the mail. With my acedemic stats and EA's in mind, I began scratching my head. To the point, I have a 4.0+ GPA weighted in UGA's terms and a 3.9+ Unweighted. Interestingly, my appititude testing did not inhibit me from getting into the program even though I made a 1910 and a 29 (SAT, ACT respectively). Personally I don't believe that I deserved the auto admit. I told this to my brother, who is well aware of the program, and informed me that for Honors, they don't look at you in such black and white. What he told me was that for Honors, they look at what you would expect them to (GPA, testing, course rigor, EA's, class rank etc...) but they rank you based on how well they percieve you on doing in their program and if you will be able to deal with the coursework. I know this may seem like I'm making a statement which is a big DUH. I'm trying to say that I hope people do not get discouraged and everyone should apply to honors because even if you dont have great testing scores like myself and are below the demographic averages, you still have a chance. Good luck everyone and GO DAWGS.</p>
<p>Aww I think that was very sweet of you!</p>
<p>And you boosted my confidence up a bit! I’m afraid I won’t be able to make honors because my SAT superscored is 1900…which really isn’t that great, as you pointed out. But I will have been in 7 APs by the time I graduate and my weighed GPA is 4.313 while my unweighed one is 4.0. </p>
<p>I just hope they don’t focus too much on the SAT scores! I honestly think standardized tests are the worst possible way to determine one’s aptitude in any school or program.</p>
<p>I agree with you coolpg, I feel like standardized testing is just something certain people waste a large amount of money spending on tutors and study books and tons of time just studying for something that ends in a couple hours. I think AP scores tell more about someone’s intellect with how well they do with a rigorous course. Regardless, do awesome on your essay, and hope you make it.</p>
<p>“I feel like standardized testing is just something certain people waste a large amount of money spending on tutors and study books and tons of time just studying for something that ends in a couple hours. I think AP scores tell more about someone’s intellect with how well they do with a rigorous course.”</p>
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<p>Actually thousands of tax dollars are spent on the teacher and school facilities to tutor students over a semester or year to take an AP test that ends in a couple of hours. Not sure how that shows ‘intellect’ either. Considering an AP exam can be taken without sitting in an AP course and the AP score is only used to judge whether to give out college credit, it does little to show the ‘rigor’ either. </p>
<p>If an AP class has a rotten teacher where all the students make A’s on their high School transcript, yet they get one’s and two’s on the exam versus an AP class where the bulk of students made C’s or D’s on their transcript but made four’s and five’s on the exam. The second one would seem to show more rigor; BUT…</p>
<p>UGA doesn’t look at AP scores since they are not a mandatory part of an AP class, no one has to take the test at all and UGA will apply the same level of rigor. In the reverse, a Dual enrolled student can take Calculus from Georgia Tech make an ‘A’, take the AP exam and make a ‘5’, and UGA will say the person that took the high school AP class and flunked the AP exam has more rigor than the brain that dual enrolled at Georgia Tech. </p>
<p>In reality they should use the AP scores to judge rigor and not high school transcript grades for those classes as they furnish a form of standard across schools… But they don’t.</p>
<p>Good point, I sometimes make loose statements because of my frustration towards the SAT. I apologize.</p>