How Many of You Have Kids at UGA?

By the time my kid/s attend college you'll probably need a 7.5 GPA and 8500 SAT to go to UGA so I doubt I'll ever have to worry about this

2 oldest graduated c/o '20 and c/o '21. Youngest is a rising Junior! 3-peat!!

GO DAWGS c/o '91

I’m a double Dawg and my oldest son just finished his 3rd year ( do they even call it Junior year anymore?) at UGA.

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By the time my kid/s attend college you'll probably need a 7.5 GPA and 8500 SAT to go to UGA so I doubt I'll ever have to worry about this

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It's crazy that I got into UGA decades ago with 1120 SAT and 3.5 GPA. I wouldn't even be waitlisted today. Like they would look at my application and laugh at it before rejection. That is how competitive it is now.

1290 SAT and 3.8 GPA. 1996.

This was in the infancy of the Hope Scholarship and before the following grade inflation in high schools. If you had a 3.8 GPA it was pretty good. Nowadays, a 3.8 means you are a slacker.

2 of mine went to UGA as did I and my wife. Both my kids had 4.8 and 33 and 32 ACT. Similar grades to my ones to my other 2 who went to more prestigious schools. We didn’t have above 4.0 when I was in HS, so not sure how it translates now. AP classes are pretty much a necessity now it seems.

What does he want to study? How to properly penetrate a goat?

The GPAs above 4.0 are weighted GPAs that reflect extra points for AP and IB classes (versus unweighted that we grew up with which caps off at 4.0). Most kids nowadays only speak in terms of their weighted GPA because AP and IB courses are so ubiquitous (whereas when I was younger you had maybe 5 total AP classes available at any given public HS. Some didn’t have AP programs at all).

Freshman, Soph, etc as terms are kind of fading away now because they no longer adequately reflect where a kid actually is in relation to graduation due to most coming into places like UGA with 30-60 hours worth of credit (first year, second year, etc has kind of become the new nomenclature). Double majors are starting to slowly diminish, too, as things like the Double Dawgs program are incentivizing knocking out your undergrad degree ASAP so you can start in a Masters.

The college ghettos that used to be a staple of places like Athens are slowly but increasingly being replaced with luxury student apartments that run $1k+ a month. Most students now will live in a renovated high rise dorm on Baxter in their first year and that’ll be the worst living experience they ever have as quality goes.

Times a changing, SIYGE, etc

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I’m always amazed my 1040 SAT and 3.5 got into Georgia back in nineties. My application was one page, front and back.

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Lots of good ol’ baws at UGA even in the 90’s. Around 1100 and good gpa got you in. Some programs it was lower. Had a nice contingent of South Ga farm boys in my freshmen dorm I know didn’t get that high.

Still amazes me the school is 60% female and has almost as many Asians as Black students.

1990 - 9,561 applied, 78% acceptance, 1045 mean SAT. “American Negro”- 5%, “Asian American” - 1.2%

2000 - 12,869 applied, 62% acceptance, “African-American”- 5.8%, “Asian-American” - 2.8%

2010 - 17,730 applied, 58% acceptance, “Black/African-American”- 7.7% , “Asian”. - 8.3%

2020 -28,024 applied, 49% acceptance

2021 - 39,090 applied , 40% acceptance , “Black, African-American” - 8.4%, “Asian” - 11.1%

*what was the huge application increase from 2020 to 2021??

And yes, the schools demographic breakdown used “American Negro” as the nomenclature in 1990.