This is the official thread for those applying EA to University of Georgia.
List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
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Has anyoneās child submitted their application? My son submitted his about a week ago and still has not received an email invitation to the portal. He has checked in all the other folders.
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D26 submitted last Wed. Received access to portal within 24 hours. I would assume @Mama3 he has access now?
Yes he finally does!
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Out of State: Early Early Admission Application
(Interested in Business // Environmental Science so undecided or economics ?)
ACT: 33 // Reading: 36 Math: 32 English: 32 Science: 32
Unweighted GPA: 3.88
Weighted GPA: 4.44 Est. Graduating WGPA: 4.52
Coursework Rigor: 13 AP/IB 15 Honors
Selected Coursework: AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, IB Global Politics AP Comparative Government and Politics, IB Philosophy, Economics and Personal Finance, Honors
Extra-curricular-
Leadership:
Captain ā Varsity Cross Country (1 Year)
Co-Founder / Co-President ā Womenās History Club (2 Years)
Vice President ā Book Club (2 Years)
Indiana University ā Kelley School of Business: Womenās Leadership Institute Selected Participant (Summer 2025)
Athletics:
Cross Country ā Varsity (2 Years), Junior Varsity (2 Years)
Track (Spring) ā Varsity (2 Years) / Track & Field (Winter) ā Varsity (1 Year)
Clubs and Volunteering:
Key Club Member (4 Years)
Amnesty International (4 Years)
Womenās History Club (2 Years)
Book Club (2 Years)
NCFC Youth Soccer ā Assistant Youth Coach (4 Years)
Red Cross CPR / AED Certified Adult and Youth (3 Years)
Academic Awards and Certifications:
Summa Cum Laude ā Class of 2026
North Carolina Academic Scholar Award
Presidents Education Award
āX-Schoolā Scholar Award
Academic All-Conference ā Cross Country (4 Years)
Academic All-Conference ā Track (2 Years)
Internship / work:
Small Business Services & Consulting Intern ā āXā Company (Summer 2025, 10 weeks, 32+ hrs/week, paid)
- Built budget and forecast models for a privately held business serving 5000 Patients.
- Managed monthly audit of 200+ inventory SKUs and 25 vital equipment units.
- Assisted in preparing income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports.
- Conducted professional outreach mentor development: secured and interviewed 5 mentors, created executive-style summary reports on academic and employment backgrounds.
- Professional Development Text Reading: Read eight Leadership / Business texts by Kotter, Drucker, Maxwell, Gladwell, created executive-style summary reports on text, authors key points, and personal takeaways.
Read the UGA admissions blog and calculate your UGA GPA using that formula. They will not use the GPA on the transcript. They only count core classes, give no weight for honors or dual enrollment classes, and only give additional weight for AP classes that have been taken. They also only look at English and Math ACT.
once you have those facts, you can read the UGA admissions blog and see the admission statistics for early action admits, and the applicant pool as a whole.
The blog is a wealth of information in the comments are equally helpful.
As of a couple of years ago, uga has put a 20% cap on out-of-state enrolled freshman so your out of state residency will matter
Thank you for the feedback.
Sheās aware of the GPA recalculation for UGA - and done it according to how she understands it from the blog previously and reports sheās at the upper end of the middle 50% stats posted. Iām just not going to go through all the hoops to calc it myself.
Weāre familiar with the State Schools OOS caps - our home stateflagship UNC (where we have one enrolled) has it at 18% for OOS - and they commonly turn down 4.0/perfect test scores OOS students, and UT Austin (where we have one enrolled OOS) has it at around 8-8.5% (its 90% Texas, and 10% OOS/International).
I believe she has a well balanced view on UGA - as sheāll either be admitted or not, the thing for her is since Terry is not entering as a Direct Admit, it places UGA in her group of schools which are otherwise good schools but are not in her same grouping as the schools which do DA. Like UVA - great school but no DA for business. If that makes sense?
Thanks again
The Terry application is much less competitive than the application to UVA business school and definitely less of a concern. For the most part people who want to get into Terry do get into Terry which is very different than UVA.
If sheās already calculated her UGA GPA and compared it to the accepted ranges sheās got a pretty good grasp on her chances for acceptance it sounds like.
I would hope so as sheās fairly attentive to detail - as a parent Iām just looking at trying to balance the pool of students applying vs admits and then overlying stats on the number of applicants at the list of schools sheās applying to so I can try to keep her expectations in line. As an example, looking at UNC her stats put her well in the competitive pool for in-state applicant but not an āeliteā applicant. If we look at their 50% range at face value, someone who doesnāt follow Carolina closely would think sheād likely be āinā as in-state, but knowing the depth of the applicant pool of competitive students in that pool Iād hazard sheās a coin flip along with another 10,000+ instate students in that same pool.
Iām not nearly as familiar with UGA, and while her stats measure up to being ācompetitiveā based on the admission ranges, as an OOS and not knowing how deep that ācompetitiveā pool actually is I donāt feel comfortable saying this is a ātargetā verses another reach for her.
Thanks again for the input.
Iām sort of piggy backing off the mini conversation above regarding the GPA and the number of DE, AP and IB classes used to calculate a UGA gpa. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of students that attended high schools that cap the number of DE, AP and IB classes and still having success with getting accepted? We see the middle 50 in the accepted student profile and the honors student profile and it spooked us a little. Iām just curious how UGA would compare a student in this scenario with the typical student profile. Especially someone with a top 1 percent class rank and ACT score, but just lacking in the weighted GPA realm.
I only have in-state anecdotal dataā¦ my D21 and niece23 were both accepted to UGA with 4-8 APs. This was the max allowed at their respective schools. Since UGAās admission evaluation is holistic, I am fairly confident the access to available APs was taken into consideration and the studentās record was evaluated in the context of their high school profile.
Others may have more current information. Best of luck!
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Applying Early Action in state. Just submitted last night!
Intended major of Psychology on a Pre-PA path.
4.4 UGA gpa/4.0 unweighted.
8 AP/2 DE
35 ACT (36 English 34 Math)
Rank 73/800 in highly competitive public school in Georgia.
National merit commended scholar. Georgia certificate of merit. AP scholar with distinction.
4 year sport. 3 year Varsity. 2x coach award, 1x team mvp. Team captain senior year.
2 years in leadership role in club at school.
Holds 2 part time jobs (one of which she started on her own)
150+ hours volunteering as a small group leader at church.
10 years of piano including multiple superior+ ratings at ga federation of music festivals.
She is hoping for a direct Honors admit.
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Iām not sure anybody can give you any more of a prediction than she already has by looking at the published statistics, particularly since we donāt know her UGA GPA. As an out-of-state student with stats in the middle of the accepted pool, my thought would be to classify it as a reach, and if she gets accepted, it will likely be in regular decision. But this is only a guess.
Mine is still working on hers but is close to being done. Is there an advantage to submitting before October 15th?
Weāre in the same spot. My daughter LOVES UGA but we are out of state. She has a 3.96 unweighted GPA (recalculated for UGA weighted GPA gives her a nice boost for APās and not deducting for A-ās, but I canāt remember what it is.) She also has a 35 ACT and very good ECās. On paper sheās a great applicant, I just have no idea what to expect or how competitive the out of state field will be.
My daughter has not yet submitted her EA application but I am wondering if anyone who has accessed the honors/Foundation Fellowship application can share how involved that is? She is getting to the point of having to make some decisions about what she can and cannot complete and the application is ready to go but if the honors app is burdensome then she might just scrap UGA altogether. Lots of deadlines coming up.
I thought if you apply EA you are automatically considered for honors and donāt need to complete the separate honors application.
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