<p>From the admissions office on auto-admit:
“With regard to automatic admission for Honors, the decisions are based solely on statistical information including GPA, SAT and/or ACT scores. Again this year, the Honors Program took just under the top 2% of students that were accepted to UGA through the early action process. Students that were automatically accepted to Honors had a combination of SAT/ACT, GPA and course rigor that was higher than years past. This year the SAT cut was 1450 and greater (critical reading and math only), 32 ACT and greater, and a high school GPA of 4.2 and higher.”<br>
Did anyone get in outside these numbers? Some of the postings say that they did.</p>
<p>tiger1992: Can you give a link to this quote for the rest of us so we can see the other information?</p>
<p>It’s a cut and paste from an e-mail I received. My school offers Honors classes instead of a lot of AP classes, and UGA doesn’t give points for Honors like AP. We also only take AP Jr and Sr years which means only Jr year grades go in with the app. It doesn’t hurt you at most schools (only Georgia schools seem to do this - maybe other schools I didn’t apply to) or when there is holistic review, but it killed my GPA for auto-admit and early scholarship chances. Auto-admit is not holistic, but I may get a better result in regular Honors consideration. BTW, my ACT was a 35 but I missed the GPA cut off.</p>
<p>Tiger1992: There has been at least one if not more that has posted that they received an auto admit from Honors with a 4.0gpa. The way that UGA computes the extra points for AP classes is a little confusing and does penalize the gpa’s of those who get points added to their average BUT already had an A before the extra points were added. And it isn’t always clear exactly what the high schools send UGA.</p>
<p>A lot of schools don’t offer extensive AP classes for freshman and sophomores. My daughters’ school has no freshman AP classes and only 1 AP class for sophomores. A few have petitioned to take AP GOVT as sophomores, but that is not available to the majority. UGA does look at what you’ve taken within the context of what your school offers so as to not penalize the kids from schools that don’t offer a ton of AP courses.</p>
<p>I have no idea why you didn’t receive an auto admit with a 35 ACT and 3.95 gpa. That is indeed a mystery.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Tiger1992: My son was admitted EA, but did not get an auto-admit to Honors. He had a 3.75uw and 4.37 weighted GPA and a 35 ACT. I assumed it was because we are OOS. I guess we will wait and see whether he is admitted to Honors in this cycle. But I thought you would be interested to know that you are not alone. I was a bit surprised at this too.</p>
<p>Was the 4.37 GPA the one reported by his school or the one calculated by UGA? I’m OOS, too. Was he offered a scholarship? Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>No scholarship offer, and the 4.47 is the school’s GPA. He had a lot of honors classes and as many AP’s as his schedule would allow, but that only amounted to 5 total which hurt him I think. Sorry it took me so long to reply!</p>
<p>I got my letter of admission from Honors on Christmas Eve, 2010 (best Christmas present EVER!!!), exactly 3 weeks after early action decisions went out. I think the rest of the Honors decisions for everyone else who actually applied to Honors (I never did) go out in April, so I went ahead and chose someone who had also been auto-admitted as my roommate as opposed to waiting until April in order to secure a spot in Myers (we were able to talk via Facebook, Skype, and eventually meet in person before deciding that we would make good roommates–thank God for DawgHouse!). Does anyone know approximately how many people were auto-admitted?</p>
<p>honestly, the honors program puzzles me. I got in with a 3.9 gpa ( the highest i could get was a 4.0 b/c my school weights grades) and a 31 composite ACT (34 on math and 31 in english). I’ve taken 9 Ap classes and 7 honors. my extracurriculars weren’t brilliant, but i was able to apply to them to my essay so i think that must have won some brownie points. I applied thinking i’d be rejected, but I guess my essay or something won them over because my stats are lower than the average Honors program kid.</p>
<p>stellastar23: I agree. I’ve heard some people get in with sub 4.0 GPAs, and not AMAZING extracurriculars, but then I’ve seen kids with 4.2s and tons of ECs, but no admittance. 9 AP classes is a lot though. That’s weird, my school does the exact same: the highest we can get is a 4.0.
My school is in Gwinnett County. Maybe you’ve heard of it?</p>
<p>I may be the least qualified UGA Honors Acceptee
31 ACT
3.75 U/W
7 Ap’s
Gifted/Honors Classes
Not really any stellar Ec’s
…soooo I am very cofused as to why I got in haha</p>
<p>i think gwinnett, fulton, and another metro/atlanta school system weighs grades.
gwinnett is the best though, 10 points. mine is only 7.</p>
<p>Do many of the Honors students get scholarships? It seems like kids get one or the other. We have friends who got good OOS scholarships without applying for either FF/BR or the Honors College. Do any of you understand how that works?</p>
<p>I know what you mean ^… I was auto-admitted into the Honors College but did not receive th charter or any other scholarships while some people I know didnt even apply for Honors and got the charter scholarship…</p>