<p>Hang in there, KT12345678 - my son is pretty much in the same boat as you are. He is still waiting to hear from Georgia (he was also deferred). His unweighted GPA is 3.6 out of 4. I haven’t figured out his core GPA but I would suspect it is higher because it was one of his electives (Business Concepts) that was the only C on his record. He also only has 2 APs but his high school offers few AP courses. He does have 12 honors classes, though. His SAT was 2190 without the writing portion it is 1430. He has already gotten into Tulane with a modest scholarship and University of Maryland (no scholarship). Also, he has great ECs - several hundred hours of community service and for the last 2 years has served on the regional board (i.e., multi-state) for a community service organization.</p>
<p>Thank goodness my son was admitted in the February round RD that basis the criteria on ED. We were worried, he was accepted to several other schools out of state for the same program but he wanted a UGA acceptance in order to make his final choice in the next month. </p>
<p>His GPA is 3.51, and has 4 AP’s with 5’s, 3 more this school year. He scored 780 Math SAT,720 CR and 720 Writing and a 32 on the ACT. Some kids don’t shine until they are challenged and the Admissions dept. of all schools evidently can see this, he has very few activites, but the few he has he highly excelled in and had unusual experiences in life he wrote about. </p>
<p>So again, scores, and rigor! And writing ability!</p>
<p>Momstheboss - I totally agree with you - mostly on the rigor and writing ability. From what I’ve been seeing on CC, not just from UGA but from other college posters as well, is that GPA and course rigor seem to definitely outshine the standardized test scores. I’ve seen kids that have high SAT/ACT scores with average GPA get rejected, while other kids with mediocre test scores and higher GPA and rigor get accepted. In my personal opinion, I don’t feel that standardized test scores necessarily reflect one’s academic ability; some kids just don’t do as well on timed-testing.
My daughter is an example of this - She has a high W and UW GPA but she only scored 1820 on the SAT (1160 CR +M) and a 29 ACT superscored - yet she met the EA criteria for UGA, has a full-ride to an in-state university, and received a good scholarship at another university. She doesn’t have a long list of EC’s, but the ones she does have she has shown strong commitment and leadership in. Her essays were awesome. Her HS doesn’t allow freshmen to take any AP’s. They allow 1 for sophomore year (which she took), 2 for junior year (which she took) and no limit for senior year - she signed up for 4 but was only able to take 3 due to scheduling conflicts. Her GC wrote a letter explaining the conflict and sent to all of her colleges. My point about the rigor is, if your HS offers 10 AP’s, then you should try to take as close to that as possible; If your school only allows 3 AP’s, and you take those, then colleges are not going to penalize you for only having 3 AP’s.
So as for KT12345678 - her scores and EC’s are really, really good, so one can only assume that maybe her school offered more AP’s and she elected not to take them. However, the fact that she’s in dual enrollment will help her. I tend to think that she will be admitted RD.</p>