<p>Hispanic (UGA has a very low % of Hispanics so this should help, right?)
3.7 GPA
29 ACT
1850 SAT
720 US History Subject Test
Decent EC's, one particularly passionate EC
5 AP's
No Honors available at my HS
Good Recs
Essays should be decent, but I was much more comfortable with the prompts for other schools</p>
<p>Lastly, how do students at UGA tend to view outsiders, particularly Californians? Athens seemed like a really chill and laid back place so I'm hoping that they'd be accepting of people from the West Coast. I know that some Southerners have that whole "Yankee" thing going on, but I definitely would think that they are the exception rather than the norm. I have a passion for football equal to that of any Southerner, so I should at least fit in very well in that regard.</p>
<p>You look like you’ll get in. And no we don’t have the whole “yankee” thing going on. Although we do think people from California are weird (i.e. you’re stupid law making). I’ll give you that. But it won’t prevent you from getting in because you live on the west coast.</p>
<p>UGA admits its class without considering IS vs. OOS balance. In any case, I think your stats make you a likely admit. Is that GPA weighted or unweighted? If unweighted, then your chances for admission look very good.</p>
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Most students at UGA are “transplants” whose families moved to Georgia within the past generation or two, so you won’t find all that many born-and-bred “Southerners” who dislike “Yankees.” In my experience, the atmosphere is pretty welcoming regardless of where you’re from.</p>
<p>Best of luck with your application, and go dawgs! SEC East champions next season (hopefully!).</p>
<p>I read somewhere on the site that their goal is to accept Georgia students first. I’m looking for it right now, but I can’t seem to remember where it was. I’m from SC and was deferred.</p>
<p>Sounds like a rumor. UGA does not differentiate between IS vs. OOS in the admissions process. Unlike some other state schools, it is not constrained by legislative mandates regarding resident balance i.e. there is no fixed percentage of students that must be from Georgia.</p>
<p>emorylegacy: I would imagine some find California’s liberalism to be out there (that may be what the poster is referring to). Don’t think UGA’s student body/campus leans as left as many college campus’s. But then again, I’m sure you can find some legit stupid/outdated laws in southern states such as Georgia that reflect its conservatism.</p>
<p>We Georgians bear no bias or discrimination towards the dollars carried by our OOS brethren, and are more than happy to welcome your currency to the Peach State.</p>
<p>So when I first posted this, I only posted my weighted GPA. If i converted my GPA to the UGA scale correctly,it would be a 3.51. How much would this affect my chances since I would be outside the middle 50% of admitted students? And being Hispanic should help me out a little, right?</p>
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<p>Yea, outsiders find California to be pretty liberal, and it is in a lot of places. However, being from Orange County ( a pretty conservative area just like a good portion of Southern California), I definitely wouldn’t experience a culture shock being in a conservative climate. </p>
<p>Your stats are in the lower 25% percentile for admitted students in most of the stats for the class of 2010:
SAT-I Middle 50% of Admitted First-Year Students 1800 - 2080
SAT-I Middle 50% of Admitted First-Year Students (CR&M): 1190 - 1360
Overall SAT-I Average of Admitted First-Year Students: 1263
ACT Middle 50% of Admitted First-Year Students: 27 -31
Overall ACT Average for Admitted First-Year Students: 28 </p>
<p>I think its going to hard but not impossible just depends on what your overall file looks like.</p>