There are also opportunities that are only available to honors students such as certain internships, study abroad programs, and scholarships. It’s a highly regarded honors program that is a big resume boost.
Wow - with #s like that- assuming you’ve applied to a range of schools - you’re going to get huge money somewhere - including some elite schools. Congrats. The hard work will pay off. I’m learning that - sometimes the #s don’t matter as much - especially at certain public schools that are higher in the food chain. Congrats to your student on - well I’m sure working their tail off - and obviously will have a bright academic future at UGA or wherever.
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For those who got in but ultimately get no scholarship - if you’re from the Southeast, don’t forget the Academic Common Market. You may find a major that works for you at UGA and you’d qualify for instate tuition. The ACM is - I think from Texas to VA and all states in between. For TN (where we live), the UGA majors are film studies starting Junior Year. But your state may have different eligible majors. That would be like getting the OOS waiver if you could utilize that.
deferred with a 3.91 weighted gpa
no test scores
a lot of volunteer hours
national honors society
a job
leader of compass program at school
out of state
Question for those receiving scholarships - did you fill out a FASFA form? My daughter seems to think that the submission of that triggered scholarships for others but that doesn’t sound right to me. I thought they only needed that for need based?
No, did not fill out FAFSA
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No. The scholarships given last week are merit based, not based on FAFSA at all.
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No link to FASFA -all merit.
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OOS and did fill out FAFSA. Son received $80k merit scholarship.
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what were his stats? That’s great!
Send scores if you have them, D has similar GPA UW, 30 Act and she got $38000 scholarship
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Wow that’s amazing! Congrats to her! I wasn’t able to take a test they all got cancelled 
Maybe take the Feb test? Call admissions you never know.
My daughter received a scholarship and we did fill out the FAFSA but I don’t think their is any link between the two.
I think she’s just stressed bc two of her classmates from her school both got scholarships (but not honors) and have lower tests scores, UW GPA/rigor, and less EC involvement - she says they both filled out the fasfa right before they received scholarships, so she’s looking for any correlation. She was admitted to honors but no scholarship. I told her to be patient but it’s hard not to stress when your classmates received them.
We filled out the fafsa, my daughter was admitted to honors, and no scholarship. High stats too. So who knows!
Do you think your choice of major influences the scholarship amount you receive? I applied for Biology. I sent in a 32 ACT, 33 super-scored, had a 4.29 GPA, great extracurriculars, etc. I received 5k a year, but being OOS I was hoping for more, I also did not get into the Honors program.
I don’t know for sure but since UGA doesn’t admit based on major I would think it’s highly doubtful. Especially since a lot of students will end up changing their major(s). Congrats on your acceptance!
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@student737 I don’t think it’s based on that, because my daughter was admitted for biology (35 ACT, 4.0 UW gpa, 10 AP’s, leadership, etc) and got honors but no scholarship. I’m wondering if they tried to gauge interest or something else? Who knows. We are OOS, so were hoping for something scholarship-wise.
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My D has not been offered a scholarship (although as in state not sure what our expectations should be since we already get full tuition through Hope/Zell) and was not admitted to honors. While over at GaTech she is a Stamps/Gold Scholars semifinalist. I’ve stopped guessing how this all works. Hahaha.
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