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UGA continues to improve admissions standards
Posted on 8/6/15 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 8/6/15 at 1:53 pm
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Feel like we see this every year now. It's getting to the point where its not even fun to make fun of the guy going to backup U because it's getting pretty tough to get in.
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Incoming University of Georgia students have set a new record for academic quality, with the highest GPA and SAT scores in the university's 230-year history.
The approximately 5,300 first-year students will begin fall semester on Aug. 17 with an average GPA of 3.91 and an average SAT score of 1301. Just five years ago, those figures were 3.83 and 1264, respectively.
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UGA received more than 22,000 applications (a 4 percent increase over last year) for fall 2015 admission, with an admittance rate of 52 percent of all applicants. Since 2010, the number of freshman applications has increased by 25 percent. Around 1,550 transfer students also will begin classes this fall.
A breakdown of the numbers indicates that the mid-50 percentile GPA range for the class of 2019 is 3.81-4.06. Additionally, this class has a combined mean critical reading and math score of 1301 plus an average writing score of 626, for a total of 1927 on the 2400 scale-14 points higher than last year's incoming class. This year's mean score for students who took the ACT was 29, matching last year's record.
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The rigor of students' high school curriculum continues to be a key factor in admissions decisions, with some 94 percent of the students having enrolled in College Board Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes while in high school. Many students earned enough credits to be classified as sophomores and several as juniors during their first term of enrollment. The average number of AP and IB courses taken by students was six. Sixteen percent of students dually enrolled in college while attending high school, up 3 percent from 2014. The top preferred majors are biology, business, finance, marketing, psychology, biological science, biochemistry/molecular biology and computer science.
Feel like we see this every year now. It's getting to the point where its not even fun to make fun of the guy going to backup U because it's getting pretty tough to get in.
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Posted on 8/6/15 at 1:55 pm to tween the hedges
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UGA continues to improve admissions standards
They haven't necessarily improved the standards, those stayed the same.
They improved their statistics for their incoming freshmen.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:00 pm to tween the hedges
UGA definitely gets a better quality of student, but with all the prestige that comes with it you don't see higher quality of jobs that you may think compared to the rest of SEC schools.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:01 pm to tween the hedges
Nice.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:04 pm to tween the hedges
move over GT, new nerds in town
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:07 pm to tween the hedges
It is a good thing you were able to matriculate before these admission standards!
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:33 pm to TheMightyTerrier
I would have been on the fringe for sure. I don't think my dad would have paid for Auburn so I don't know what I would have done if I didn't make it.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:36 pm to tween the hedges
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I would have been on the fringe for sure.
nobody believes you
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:39 pm to CRAZY 4 LSU
it's pretty much just the Hope(lottery money)Scholarship that every HS kid in Georgia w/ a B average gets that's caused the massive influx, they took as many as they could(as much money as they could) until the over crowding finally started to become an obvious problem.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:41 pm to Jagd Tiger
Hope is definitely a part of it, but the state of Georgia has also grown at a much faster rate than the rest of the country. A lot more people competing for a similar sized number of spots.
Hope definitely increased the numbers that now want to come, but population growth in Georgia generally is relevant too.
Hope definitely increased the numbers that now want to come, but population growth in Georgia generally is relevant too.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:41 pm to tween the hedges
I'll never forget going to UGA for the first time in 2009 against LSU. I was blown away by Athens, the campus, and the whole atmosphere itself. I knew the second I got back home, I was applying to UGA...until I read about their admission standards. I cried a little inside, then applied to LSU, Ole miss, Bama, and Arkansas
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:43 pm to tigerbait2010
These standards are absurd and has hurt the hotness of our girls.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:45 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
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Hope definitely increased the numbers that now want to come, but population growth in Georgia generally is relevant too.
yea they are both relevant as is the sometimes "iffy at best" Atlanta area HS teaching standards, with grade fixing, etc.
The Hope Scholarship had a snowball effect of sorts:
Hope running out of money
"The Hope scholarship was forecasted to run out of money by 2013 because lottery revenue could not keep up with the soaring enrollment and tuition."
It's not JUST UGA in the state but GTech, Kennesaw St, etc are all experiencing "bumper crops" due to the easy tuition money brought by gambling.
This post was edited on 8/6/15 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:48 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
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Hope is definitely a part of it
its the vast majority of it, also a reason you have a large number of transfer students(freshmen cant maintain standards, so school supplements enrollment with transfers)
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:49 pm to djsdawg
quote:Good, they will be easier to frick. Horny, nerdy girls have their place too.
These standards are absurd and has hurt the hotness of our girls.
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Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:08 pm to Jagd Tiger
Hope still pays for 90% if you have over a 3.0. If you want the full tuition you need over a 3.33 I believe. It's certainly attainable by the students who do enough to get in to UGA out of high school.
Edit: This is completely wrong apparently. It's how it worked ~3 years ago when I hit the last HOPE checkpoint in college.
Edit: This is completely wrong apparently. It's how it worked ~3 years ago when I hit the last HOPE checkpoint in college.
This post was edited on 8/7/15 at 10:54 am
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:09 pm to tween the hedges
The SAT/ACT scores are a nice standard but GPAs are so laughably inflated that taking them seriously is retarded.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:12 pm to Dawg in Beaumont
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Hope is definitely a part of it, but the state of Georgia has also grown at a much faster rate than the rest of the country. A lot more people competing for a similar sized number of spots.
Hope definitely increased the numbers that now want to come, but population growth in Georgia generally is relevant too.
To be honest it is increasingly difficult for in state kids to get into the major Us of their respective states. Alabama and Auburn are getting much harder to get into respectively, but the competition just isn't as high among HSers as in GA.
Point being, scores are up pretty much everywhere. It makes sense that UGA would see a lot of it, being in a pretty high growth state, especially for our region. By the time a lot of our kids are going to school, it is going to be unbelievably competitive to get into "party/football schools," much more so even than when a lot of us went through (2000s).
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:13 pm to tween the hedges
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Hope still pays for 90% if you have over a 3.0. If you want the full tuition you need over a 3.33 I believe. It's certainly attainable by the students who do enough to get in to UGA out of high school.
Wait....Full tuition paid if you had a 3.33 in HS?! While being able to use the 5.0 scale?!
How does that work?!
Posted on 8/6/15 at 4:13 pm to Pettifogger
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it is going to be unbelievably competitive to get into "party/football schools,
Bama accepted me with a 2.9 and a 33 ACT. Greedy bastards didn't give me any money.
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