Hello to all you rising seniors out there. I just graduated high school the other day. UGA was my top school but I was rejected. I figured I’d post my stats to show you all where you should stand. My UW GPA was a 89/100. About 3.5. My ACT was a 27. I applied to the business school. I am OOS white male. I played four years of baseball (2 years varsity)
What was your core class weighted GPA? Also, how many AP’s did you graduate with?
My school doesn’t weight GPA.MI was in all honors. School doesn’t Offer AP
It was because you were OOS and at the bottom 25% in scores and GPA. If you’re OOS, it is much safer to be near the median of scores/GPA or much higher. Someone with your stats could have potentially got in IS.
OOS had nothing to do with it. According to the UGA admissions website, “admissions standards are exactly the same for out-of-state applicants as they are for in-state applicants. UGA does not have a cap on the number of out-of-state students that can be admitted.”
As much as it claims that (kind of like even the most stats sensitive elite privates still claim that they have holistic admissions…which is hardly the case when your mean SAT is around 1500 or is higher), I’m sure there are indeed preferences for in-state students by nature of it being a state flagship. One may have such clauses so as to not discourage OOS students from applying. I certainly would. But in general, most state flagships have higher thresholds for OOS than IS (perhaps because in Ga’s case, many students applying from the outside may have stronger academic backgrounds and scores). Regardless, the OP was basically too close to the bottom quartile (the GPA and ACT. In fact they needed the ACT to be 28 to be “last years” threshold for the beginning of the IQR) to be safe either in or out of state. When you’re that close, you need to be hooked or have extremely strong or diversified EC’s. I still suspect that being OOS certainly did not help, but neither did the stats.
I believe I’ll stick with believing the actual admissions office criteria, rather than one person’s opinion. Here’s a great blog detailing the UGA admission process.