Maybe the waitlist will come through but that’s a pretty great acceptance list. Lots of terrific options.
Auburn but unaffordable- the rest of GA colleges only need a 2.0 to get into … this is a huge blow when student works so hard. I feel so sick… students in her school with lower grades and scores got in Early admission. Life isn’t fair so it’s a lesson for sure. I just don’t know what it takes anymore.
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Congrats! Your list is so interesting to me since in many ways it’s the reverse of our results.
Accepted FSU, UW-Madison, UGA, OSU, Clemson
Rejected Miami, UF
Top choice is UW-Madison
We’re from the Northeast so all options are OOS for us. Just shows how unpredictable the process can be.
It makes no sense and that’s certainly hard to explain to your daughter who’s worked incredibly hard … hoping something changes and you guys get where she wants . Good luck to you !
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I am Ohio so all out of state for me too. I am sure our stats are similar. So random!
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Thank you, I know it. It really is. Just trying not to obsess about UGA 
She should have been admitted with those stats. My daughter had a little lower stats 3 years ago and was denied. Her counselor said she didn’t take enough AP classes. They need at least 8. She took 5. My son just got accepted today 4.0 weighted GPA 3.7 UW. He took 8 AP and scored a 35 ACT.
Your daughter may still get in off the waitlist?
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None of this makes sense. I think trying to guess is futile bc my daughter has 6 Aps. She was admitted to honors college and received the One Georgia scholarship which is a full waiver of out of state tuition. So clearly it can’t all be based on APs? It’s very very hard to figure out as far as I can tell. I wish the process was more transparent because the amount of stress these kids are under is not healthy 
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OOS , deferred - denied. 1330 SAT, 3.96 UW gpa, 5 AP, tons of honors , top 6% large excellent public high school , varsity athlete , Eagle Scout , etc etc etc. committed to another school already but kind of shocked. No red flags or anything like that.
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I don’t know if this is the right timing for this, but in case it eases your mind a bit, there’s also something to be said for attending a school where you will stand out academically.
When financial aid pkgs arrived, I had only one 4-yr option. I had to turn down Cornell, Duke, & Carleton to attend the least selective school on my college list. It was either that or live at home and go to community college, which really wasn’t an option given that I was the oldest of 6 kids in a 3br house. My parents needed me out for everyone’s sanity!
It was the best decision ever. I had a great time. I met my husband. As a stronger than average student, I had so many opportunities there that I wouldn’t have had if I had been a little fish in a big pond. The honors program provided lots of perks and advantages too – the value of priority registration cannot be overstated.
My husband and I are both convinced that getting into excellent grad schools was easier for us than it was for our grad school classmates, many of whom were at highly selective schools for undergrad and had to compete with classmates, grad students, and postdocs for attention from profs. In our situation, profs noticed us and sought us out, making it much easier for us to develop our resumes during undergrad.
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Did she take any duel enrollment classes also?
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Nicolek925, I’m so glad your son is happy with one of his options! Was he shocked UGA rejected him because prediction websites suggested UGA was a target for him?
In our experience, the websites that try to predict whether a selective public school (acceptance rate <50%) is a safety, target, or reach are only somewhat reliable for in-state students, and often not helpful for OOS applicants. That’s especially true at schools that cap OOS enrollment, including UGA. This year UGA’s overall acceptance rate was 37%, and when you look at the graphic on the UGA admissions blog, good gosh Georgia students are high achievers! https://www.admissions.uga.edu/blog/2024-freshman-admits/
My daughter intends to pursue a major not offered by any schools in our state, so we spent a lot of time researching the odds of acceptance as an OOS student. With SAT 1510, ACT 35 Math, 35 English, 4.0 unweighted, 5 AP + 1 DE, and lots of EC related to intended majors, we considered UGA somewhere between a “hard” target and a reasonable reach. She was very happy to be accepted, but we would have been unsurprised by either a waitlist or a rejection.
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Deferred from EA, then Denied. This was the last result he was waiting for. He has already committed to Auburn and is super excited but this final result was hanging over him. He is totally fine with it and was not expecting to be admitted as this was a reach for him. In the end he had a lot of great options - he was admitted EA to: Bama, Auburn, UTK, UKY, UMD, NCSU, South Carolina,Ole Miss, and CU Boulder. UGA is an awesome place and we are super excited for everyone who was admitted. Go Dawgs 
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My takeaway from going through this process is that there are an increasing number of kids with similar stats competing for a limited number of spots at the desirable large public schools. And with grade inflation on the rise, it’s becoming very difficult for admissions offices to differentiate between students. This leads to the unpredictable and seemingly random results we see from school to school. In the end most kids end up with great options (like Auburn) and need to move on from the rejections. It’s a tough pill to swallow though for kids who have their heart set on a specific school and don’t have great backup options due to financial or other considerations.
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No dual enrollment courses as those were thought to be less rigor than honors/AP at her high school- she took a full AP and honors course load. Again lowest grade was a 96%. AP chemistry etc.
No. Our school doesn’t have any kids that do DE. It’s not something they encourage.
Does anyone know why colleges don’t require kids to report their AP exam scores? I would think this would be a great, objective way to compare students.
Because some schools have super strong AP teachers while others don’t. It’s more of a measure of how good the teacher is vs. the student.
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