UGA Early Acceptance Day

Today’s the day for almost 6,000 high school seniors. They learn whether they’ll be admitted to school at UGA in Athens. Or whether they will be going to…..their second choice.

These students have applied for early-action admission. Not real early—we’re not talking elementary school here. Just two weeks earlier than normal. But that information can’t get to them early enough.

High school seniors will be able to check on their fates by doing a password-protected status check on the website of the UGA Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Besides the fireworks (didn’t Katy Perry use them to great effect in her video?), the Accepted Ones will see President Michael Adams congratulating them in a video. Students with mobile devices can learn their status with the UGA Admissions App.

“Technology is definitely changing and speeding up the way we notify students of admissions decisions—both good news and bad,” said Nancy McDuff, associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management. “This year for the first time we will not be mailing letters to students who have been denied admission since getting that letter after learning the news via the status check is a double blow.”     

About 10,800 people applied for early-action admission for students entering next fall. Those who are deferred are asked to submit additional information by the regular-decision deadline of Jan. 15.

“We always try to stress to early-action applicants that if their admission decision was deferred, they still have a chance to be part of the incoming freshman class,” McDuff said. “In the past few years, we have admitted about half of the students who were initially deferred and then completed Part II of the application by Jan. 15. Being deferred at this point does not mean that an application is denied.”

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