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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

We have gone from roughly 11,000 EA applicants in 2014 to almost 27,000 EA applicants this year, and we expect the overall applicant pool (EA and RD together) to show similar growth. In addition, the applicant pool has flipped from roughly 65% In-State applicants in 2013 to 42% In-State applicants this year. UGA GPA or higher.

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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

Ruffaloni

In 2014, our enrollment had been flat—if slightly dropping—for four years when our new president decided we should turn it around with either a tuition reset or a revised financial aid strategy. The Grand Canyon has always been one of my favorite places. The culture of higher education is steeped in knowing. I was horrified.

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The Problem with Grade Inflation

Discovery College Consulting

USA Today reported that from 1998 to 2016, average high school GPAs rose from 3.27 And, Drew Riley, Director of Admission at Denison University, explained that the admissions office can see the GPA of every student who has applied from a particular high school. getting straight A’s is no longer special. If “every student has a 4.0

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The 10 Medical Schools with the Highest Acceptance Rates

BestColleges

Medical school acceptance rates can vary based on factors like number of applicants, location, and whether the school is in-state vs. out-of-state. The number of medical school applicants has grown almost 15% in recent years, from 48,014 in 2014 to 55,188 students in 2023, according to the AAMC.

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How Hard Is It to Get into Medical School? (2023)

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

Regardless, you may be confused about how you could possibly get in after going to great lengths to “do everything right”—achieving a strong GPA and MCAT score, satisfying your extracurricular requirements, obtaining meaningful medical school letters of recommendation , and so on. Heck, you yourself may even be reapplying to medical school.

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Medical Schools in Texas: How to Get In (2024)

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

Notably, Texas medical schools tend to have relatively low tuition —this is especially true for in-state students but applies to out-of-state students, too. On top of this, Texas as a whole has a low cost of living, and many Texas medical schools have strong reputations and support a wide variety of communities across the state.

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Many Alaskan Students Aren’t Accepting State’s Merit-Based Scholarship

BestColleges

Fifty-six percent of eligible students who didn't use the award in 2022 said they didn't want to attend college in the state, and 44% said they already decided on a different school outside of the state when they found out they were eligible for the merit-based scholarship.