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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

In addition, the applicant pool has flipped from roughly 65% In-State applicants in 2013 to 42% In-State applicants this year. This year, our growth in EA was more In-State than Out-of-State, with roughly a 3% total increase in EA apps and most of this being from Georgians. UGA mid-50% GPA Average – 3.81-4.22

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Morehouse Receives $1.6M to Expand Prison Education Program

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It found Black state residents are more than twice as likely — and Latino/a residents are three times as likely — as white residents to be incarcerated in Georgia. "The Thanks to federal funding, the program will increase class offerings from two to eight and allow the college to serve 200 students yearly. In July 2023, the U.S.

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Best Programs for Specific Majors at Top Tier Schools

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When we say “deep dive,” we mean a detailed look at stand-out programs within larger colleges. Colleges are under constant pressure to increase profit and maximize yield, and a lot of the material they put out is simply marketing. Here’s an example: in 2013, the University of Iowa was the No. So how do you cut through the noise?

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Applying to Columbia as a Student Athlete

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In 2024, the acceptance rate continued its downward decline to a mere 3.85% , and the admitted student pool included applicants from all 50 states, various territories, and 108 countries. The acceptance rate has been under 8% since 2013. There are 6,700 undergraduate students between Columbia College and Columbia Engineering.

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Shootings at Colleges: U.S. Statistics

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While state legislatures continue to debate gun policy, there's no denying the frequency of school shootings in the U.S. While state legislatures continue to debate gun policy, there's no denying the frequency of school shootings in the U.S. 1970: Kent State University. 1976: California State University. 1] , [2] , [3].

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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

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Although the term comes up most often these days in the context of college admissions in the United States, affirmative action has been around since the 1960s and has affected a wide range of laws and policies. As of May 2023, there are major legal cases in front of the U.S. What Is Affirmative Action?

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Unbiasing AI in Admissions

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“I’m kind of shocked you did this experiment on your students,” Steve Rolston, chair of the physics department at the University of Maryland, stated during a talk with the creators of machine-learning system GRADE. You seem to have built a model that builds in whatever bias your committee had in 2013 and you’ve been using it ever since.”.