<p>@GADawg - you are wrong and we have it from the horse’s mouth. A FF from my son’s school turned down the UGA scholarship two years ago for Harvard. Last year two Ramsey’s from his school turned them down, one for Yale and one for Stanford. College counselor at the school found out after talking to UGA my son was being “punished” because UGA figures he would go to a more prestigious school, turning UGA down if he were offered the scholarship. Her words were UGA wants to keep their “yeild up”. My son is a finalist for the Jefferson at University of Virginia and Danforth at Wash U in St. Louis. So he does have other opportunities - some would say better opportunities. But after hearing a presentation by Jessica Hunt in Athens and meeting David Williams at his high school, he really wanted to go to UGA. The purpose of the UGA scholarships is to attract those highly qualified students. Very disappointing. Call it sour grapes if you want…we are VERY sour on Georgia.</p>
<p>-GPA 4.3 - in highest curriculum in best school (or maybe second best) in the state
-SAT 2360 (1590 on M+R)
-Math2 SAT 790
-Physics SAT 780
-Eagle Scout - huge service project
-Tri lingual
-9 5’s on APs
-Ran the school out of math and they had to create a class or send him to college early
-Leader on the school’s volunteer council running the hospice program
-Founded a foreign language literary journal for the school
-National medalist in both the National Spanish and French Exams last year
-Winner of awards for independent research from NOAA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, state science fair, Stockholm Regional Water Prize
-Participant in Governor’s Honors program
-3 season varsity athlete, regionally placed in his main sport</p>