Hard to say this year. The application was a joke and certainly more applied being TO. The acceptance rate at UGA is high and much higher for EA as it is. UGA is the go to safety school here in GA and all but one kid we know has already withdrawn their applications as ED and ED II are released. I’m sure deferred students with good stats will be fine. Good luck to all! Prayers you don’t have to go to Clemson or Auburn. Go Dawgs!
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How is it a go to safety school?
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Acceptance rate EA at UGA and Wake total acceptance rate are similar - around 30 percent. UGA EA stats are higher than Wake ED acceptance stats. Wake ED acceptance rate is higher. You really can’t judge some schools like Wake (not top20 necessarily but there are lots of small LACs that do this) on their total acceptance rate because they take their vast majority of their class ED for yield purposes. The RD acceptance rate drives down the overall acceptance rate even though applicant pool is not significantly different. Tulane is another school that operates like this. Also I guess I missed your point about test optional since wake has been test optional for years.
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UGA makes it really easy with the information they provide, along with simple division, to get the actual EA acceptance rates which are always around 40%.
The overall acceptance rate is actually higher than the EA by about 5-8%. Go Dawgs!
It will be interesting to see how the acceptance rate works out this year given the increase in applications. It will also be interesting to see if UGA admits approximately the same number as last year (Class of 2024: 13700 out of 28500 or 48%). It looks like Class of 2025 will be 34-35% overall if admits stay the same (13700 out of 39500+). With those assumptions, the Class of 2025 RD admit will be around 19-20% (if I calculated that correctly using both RD apps plus deferred) and the EA was 39.4%.
According to USNWR, UGA had an acceptance rate of 46% and an early acceptance rate of 58.5%, although I didn’t easily spot what year those stats are based on. Regardless, accepting the Common App plus the increase in applications across the board due to the uncertainty with covid has affected UGA’s acceptance rate meaningfully.
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@DramaMama2021 Exactly right. Don’t expect regular decision at UGA to mirror past acceptance rates as they have already accepted 9200 kids and shoot for 13k - so roughly 4k spots left out of the 10k deferred and the RD round. There may be more waitlist movement this year though as yield will be harder to gauge due to TO and jump in applications. RD acceptance will almost certainly be lower than EA as with apps going up they won’t have room to admit 45 percent of deferred plus RD. . .
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Right! I forgot to account for the February admits so the rest of RD will be even less than what I typed above. I’m not going to recalculate but I think we get the idea.
I am curious how UGA will handle the uncertainty of yield this year. Admit more? Waitlist more? 
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Sorry I didn’t mean for everyone but for most high achieving students in GA. It’s an amazing school and with Zell/Hope they would be crazy not apply just in case they didn’t get into the more elite schools they are applying to.
Are any admitted students from northeast Ohio? My daughter will be attending in the fall and would love to meet some local people before heading down there (to much better weather!!!)
Or didn’t want to pay for the more expensive schools. Don’t minimize Zell - for most majors that require graduate school particularly medical school and law school the most important factor in admission is GPA - going somewhere that GPA will be high is critical. Only a few schools carry extra weight. Free tuition is pretty amazing as is graduating without loans. It can make a tremendous difference in your lifestyle, earnings and ability to accumulate wealth after college.
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I hope they accept more than 13k. There’s not a lot of spots left.
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But they will need to accept more than usual to account for their yield which will be going down this year along with everyone else’s
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That’s what @VirginiaBelle and I were saying. That is the great unknown… How UGA will account for expected yield this year.
yall giving some ppl major anxiety attack
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Don’t get too caught up in the numbers. Dr. Graves addressed this issue when a parent posted a comment basically stating that the remaining regular decision applicants had a very slim chance of getting in. He said that the increase in applicants this year is partly due to UGA accepting the common app this year. It is easier to send in an application, so a lot more students will apply (even if they are not very qualified candidates) so a lot of those applications will not even be considered. My son is currently a sophomore at UGA and while he had a solid GPA, his SAT score was pretty average. He definitely benefitted from the holistic approach that UGA uses to assess applicants and I do truly believe the process is fair. So just hang in there and try not to stress too much. By the way, my other son applied this year, and we are currently awaiting a decision too. Best of luck to you!
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It’s more the uncertainty of not knowing more so than the actual decision sometimes.
I applied RD as an OOS student and got accepted in the February wave of decisions.
My stats:
ACT- 31, SAT- 1430
14 AP classes (school does not do IB)
3.95 Unweighted GPA, 4.86 Weighted GPA (not sure about UGA GPA)
Ranked in top 5 in a class of about 800
Lots of extracurriculars but nothing done for 4 years
Lots of volunteering
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Yes, I agree that the uncertainty and the wait for the release of the March decisions is very stressful, however UGA is very transparent about why it takes so long.
Even if I don’t get into UGA, I have to commend Mr. Graves and the whole admission office for being so transparent even in these circumstances. It’s been nice to enjoy the acceptances I have right now and not have anxiety regarding when the decision will be released.
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