UGA, Tufts, and Vanderbilt share their admission criteria

SocratesPost is always on the frontlines scouring the news for relevant updates in the college admissions landscape. We look for anything that can help shape our understanding of the latest trends in admissions and help our readers see the direction in which we’re moving.

Questions we explored this week:

  • What types of students get into UGA (University of Georgia) EA?
  • How many categories of extracurricular activities matter to Tufts?
  • Vanderbilt cares about grades, essays, and rec letters, but not about this. What is it?

September 13, 2021 — High GPA students
UGA anticipates receiving roughly 20k EA applications. UGA will calculate an internal GPA for all of these applicants. The small group of EA students who are aca...

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