Interview 205: David Graves on “Understanding UGA”
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- David gives his background, his bio, and the multiple roles he has had in his 27 years at UGA
- David shares how UGA has changed since he arrived in the 1990s
- David shares what his elevator pitch is when someone says, Tell me more about UGA
- David and Mark both have had daughters graduate from UGA, so they discuss this
- David explains what he means by saying, “We allow students to shift.”
- David explains whether a student’s college major impacts admissions decisions
- David answers the question, does a student need to apply to get into their major, or are they just admitted to whatever
- David explains why Southern Flagships schools have become so important
- David explains why UGA doesn’t have the seasonal reps presented all over the country, like Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee
- David starts with David explaining how UGA is different from
- David tells us more about what the town of Athens is like
- David explains why UGA’s admissions rate is almost 40 points higher than the national average
- David talks about how the academic review is different from the holistic review and how UGA uses both methods in its admission process
- David talks about how UGA recalculates a GPA, and he shares how AP, IB, Honors, and Advanced classes are used
- David explains why the test scores of the students who are admitted are higher in the Early Action round
- David explains why UGA lists the range of the number of AP and IB scores in their profile, and he explains why this is not what you think it means
- David answers a question from Mark about whether it is harder to get into UGA if you apply EA and whether a borderline student is advised to apply in the regular decision round
- David explains the factors that UGA takes into consideration when they do their holistic review of the applicant
- David gives some advice for students about the UGA essay
- David answers the question, does UGA take into consideration the high school that a student is coming from
- David talks about how a file is read if a college doesn’t have AP or IB classes
- David talks about in-state vs. state admissions, and he shares the states where they are experiencing a real surge in admissions
- David talks about whether a student coming from a significantly underrepresented state is factored as a plus factor or whether all out-of-state schools are grouped together
- David talks about how transfer admissions work. Is there a guarantee with a certain GPA, or is it more nuanced
- David talks about the difference between their in-state yield and their out-of-state yield for admitted applicants
- We turn our attention to some of the most robust programs at UGA;
- David tells us more about the Grady School of Journalism
- David tells us more about The Terry School of Business
- David tells us more about the Double Dawgs program
- David tells us more about the UGA Honors College
- David talks about animal science
- David talks about food and nutrition
- David talks about the Sports Management major
- David talks about ecology
- David talks about landscape architecture
- David shares the things he wants to emphasize that
- I asked David to settle the age-old debate: Is UGA the first publicly chartered school, or is it UNC? Both claim it; which one is correct
- David shares what UGA needs to change to become an even better school
- David shares that when they do holistic reviews and when they do academic reviews
- David talks about how they split up academic review and holistic review with different readers
- David goes on the hot seat in our lightning-round
