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This conflicts with their own data from their Common Data Set:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/cds/common_data_set.pdf[/url]”>http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/cds/common_data_set.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/cds/cds10/common_data_set_2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.umass.edu/oapa/publications/cds/cds10/common_data_set_2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>See section C2.</p>
<p>Funny story. I emailed the Undergraduate Office the other day about having them close my SPIRE account, which I also did for BU since I obviously didn’t get in there either, and told them about how I had already enrolled at Rutgers, and even they emailed me back yesterday saying what a great institution it is and how they wished me luck there, proving what a good reputation it seems to have outside of New Jersey, so that made me feel a lot better.</p>
<p>UMass, I officially forgive you for what happened last Friday. No harsh feelings and I could clearly tell there was no malice from them either and that they had just been swamped with too many applications that they couldn’t accept as many people this year. As I said before, I’m so glad I didn’t make the mistake of only applying to two or three schools like many people at my school did and having two of them be these difficult reach schools and blindly thinking that places like Amherst are going to be guarantees for admission when you never know until you’ve applied. A lot of them ended up getting waitlisted and rejected from their first choices and they didn’t really have too many other options besides their safety school which they obviously don’t want to go to (most of the people I know who have gotten rejected are going to this local school called Kennesaw State, which is really just a commuter school 20 miles from Atlanta. I’m guessing you could say it’s sort of the equivalent of UMass Dartmouth or something like that. The graduation rates are around 11% and there are tons of cars on campus. Seems like an okay school but the reviews on Student Reviews make me question the true intentions of that school). Some of these were people that took a lot of AP courses and I’m surprised they didn’t try places like BU, Boston College, SUNY Binghamton, Northeastern, Syracuse or Clemson instead of just UGA. There was even this kid who made a 30 ACT who also got rejected from UGA. He might have had much better luck at Boston University, though 40,000+ applications was a record high for that school this year and the HOPE Scholarship in Georgia is the prime reason that many people here are discouraged from trying out-of-state schools, even though that program has been changed around constantly to the point where it doesn’t really pay for as much for tuition as it used to. Georgia is also suffering the effects of the unstable economy and has had to make plenty of budget cuts in order to cope.</p>