<p>wow, uga just really dosen’t give a damn about anything other than gpa. cant say im surprised about a university whose main priorities are football and partying. really sad…</p>
<p>Does anyone know when will they release the number of people on the waitlist?</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>ACT: 29
W GPA: 4.0
UW GPA: 3.91
Tons of ECs</p>
<p>GA Resident</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who have been admitted into UGA!!</p>
<p>if i knew what i knew now, i should have purposely gotten a significantly lower sat score, participated in less ec’s, and taken little or no ap courses to get into uga. damn!!!</p>
<p>Idk why you didn’t get in, but c’mon dont sit here and bach the school repeatedly. UGA is as good or better in some programs than Tech and there are obviously other aspects than football and partying…</p>
<p>Do ya’ll think I’ll get in next year with a 3.8 w/ lots of APs and a 31 ACT?</p>
<p>Eddy, I understand your frustration and anger - I would have probably reacted the same way at first impression! But try to calm down please… I’m sure there was a reason why UGA made the decision on your case…</p>
<p>Did you have good Teacher Recommendation? or Essays? </p>
<p>For me, even though I have significantly lower SAT scores than yours, I believe what made me qualified was that I showed them I put efforts to bring up my scores just for them… I was deferred from EA, and after a big devastation, I gathered up and was determined to bring my score up in January SAT (the last SAT I could take!), and I DID bring up my scores, and I think UGA saw that I made efforts to show them - I really wanted to be there.</p>
<p>Also, to justify my GPA: I took ALOT of AP classes: 8.5 of them. It may not seem like a big difference compared to how much you took (6 of them, I believe.) but UGA admission office said that they don’t look at your GPA - they look at your individual grades. So look at how you did in your AP classes along with other classes. Were they straight As? Bs? Cs?</p>
<p>Also for ECs - I see that you participated alot in different things. But I think what UGA really prefers to see is leadership. Participation is also equally important, but wouldn’t you say that a person who took leadership in different clubs and position are better than someone who just participated in many different clubs and communities? The key words here are : Leadership VS Participation.</p>
<p>This is all I can conclude from what you wrote earlier about your stats… But these are my assumptions and I’m only comparing myself to yours, based on what you wrote.</p>
<p>I hope you feel better and try to see this in a different light… trust me, I can totally feel your frustration… And I’m really sorry to hear about it…</p>
<p>Did you apply to Tech or Emory eddyatlforever? Perhaps it would have been different. Schools have weird admission practices. Some will waitlist or reject those less likely to enroll to boost the matriculation percentage. The GPA could have been killer too. Hopefully your school isn’t known for inflation.</p>
<p>thanks dasani for understanding. you’re probably the only one who hasn’t gotten annoyed with what many view as my complaining and congrats on getting accepted as well as everyone else. and yes i did apply to tech and they waitlisted me which uga did not???</p>
<p>My daughter got accepted to the College of Family and Consumer Sciences! Her stats weren’t great, but you gotta love holistic review.</p>
<p>eddy, i feel ya. i got straight rejected from UGA and it came as a total shock. I was waitlisted to UMiami, and Wake Forest and was accepted into Pepperdine. I worked all four years of high school to get into this school (8 APs, even more honors). I really challenged myself and now it seems that I should have simply taken as many on level classes as possible to get a 4.0 GPA. I know of a lot of people who took the difficult classes and didn’t get in. I honestly think that UGA made a couple HUGE mistakes with their admissions process this year. I’m not trying to take anything away from those who did get in, but at the same time, I think they definitely turned away some of the wrong people…</p>
<p>to be honest with u, i dont think anybody knows what uga looks for. i mean they say one thing and do the other. fyi, they rejected people with over 1400 sat AND over 4.0 gpa this year. thats ivy league type stats. uga is no where near that level. cant say im completely surprised, uga does have a mild reputation for making head-scratching admission decisions in the past. and its not just me and u julianne, i feel sorry for what im sure are alot more well-qualified applicants who were probably rejected.</p>
<p>oh well, got to get past this sooner or later…probably later than everyone wants:)</p>
<p>CryBabyEddy, </p>
<p>Now I see why you didn’t get in - you can’t read! On the UGA Blog where you also hang out boorishly extolling your virtues, DGraves said 1400 SAT or (not AND) 4.0 GPA: "DGraves said…</p>
<pre><code>Anon: As I said before, there are a number of students who have strong individual academic strengths (a quick glance at the numbers yesterday showed a number of denied students with over a 1400 SAT (CR+M) or a 4.0 or higher GPA or a great range of advanced classes. But when we look at the whole of the student, those strong factors are viewed within the whole of the overall student.
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<p>Based on the image that you project on these boards, I would guess that your teacher recommendations probably mentioned how obnoxious and arrogant you are.</p>
<p>darn ur right…but im gonna keep on crying tomboy and/or mom whatever ur name. IM GONNA CRY ME A RIVER!!!:)</p>
<p>Okay, I think they do use URM status for admissions…check this out…</p>
<p>So my friend who is a female and is black got had a 3.6-3.7 GPA and a 1100 SAT. She said she has adequate ECs…and she got admitted.</p>
<p>At first, i thought they didn’t use Race in their admissions, but I’m starting to revise that opinion now. It just seems so odd how people more qualified and well rounded got rejected. I cant see Essays putting that much emphasis on college admissions since people can easily make things up unlike SAT/GPA/Awards.</p>
<p>Ugh, but we’ll never know what goes through the minds of Adcoms.</p>
<p>Either that or they just put alot into just GPA. She siad she only had 3-4 AP classes with adequate honors.</p>
<p>I kinda feel bad for eddy now after witnessing this.</p>
<p>ant131531: Gee, you must be right, as UGA has never said that grades are the most important academic factor! Oh, wait… I seem to recall that you are an URM, yet you were not admitted, correct? So doesn’t that sort of shoot your whole theory right in the foot? My suggestion is for you to move forward with GSU and stop trying to find fault with admissions, especially when you were told UGA would be a reach, and especially since your friend (and this is not a nice way to treat your friend) did better in the classroom!</p>
<p>I totally agree with GAdawg… after being accepted, wait listed deferred and rejected by a range of schools (yes rejected from my safeties, into my reaches), I have stopped trying to figure this out. People read applications and have their views on what they need to build a class… it isn’t about us and what we need, it’s about them. Gone are the days when they simply put numbers into a computer, did a sort and got an answer on yes or no. I am very excited to be admitted to Georgia this year, and that whatever I had was what they were looking for. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen this way for everyone who wanted it, but the concept of “appealing” doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s ok to be sad and disappointed, but trying to figure out the process by looking at the end result never works all that well from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>GaDawg, that’s not the point. There were people more qualified at my school who got rejected. I know someone who had a 3.85 and a 1260 who got rejected and I know they do alot with their lives and get alot of awards. Yes, I am a URM, but I did not bet on getting in simply by my URM status or else I would have gotten admitted. I knew I was not getting admitted, but it’s still not fair to the people who were more then qualified.</p>
<p>I knew I wasn’t getting admitted. My GPA was just too low due to my detrimental junior year. I garuntee you if my GPA was a 3.6+, I would have gotten in.</p>
<p>Gadawg, based on your past posts, I wouldn’t be surprised if you one of the admission officers of UGA. You seem to very knowledged in it.</p>
<p>ant: I am not an admissions counselor (and I am not sure if that would be a compliment or an insult). But there are a number of people in the world, and in Athens, that interact with people in admissions, and are realistic. You blamed a person being admitted on being a URM and being treated differently, yet I am guessing you might look around and see other URM students who were denied and their numbers might “seem” better. But if a college (GT, UGA, UNC), states that they are looking at the whole student, then you cannot go by numbers. And if you did not read the “stronger” person’s application, see what they gave to a college in their application, etc, then how do you know what they looked like to a college? You know what your application is like, and what you gave colleges, but you only have a partial view of the others.</p>