The state of Georgia sees more college freshmen heading out-of-state than those coming into Georgia for school.
By Kate Hester
April 2, 2019
ATHENS, Ga – As the 2019 admissions process comes to an end, there are plenty of happy new dawgs in the state of Georgia. But what will happen to the students who were not admitted to the University of Georgia?
“At my high school the top of the bar was UGA so like five of us came here and the rest of the people mostly went to local community colleges,” said in-state freshman Alex Huskey.
The numbers for 2019 have yet to be compiled. However, 108,491 students graduated from Georgia high schools in the spring of 2018, according to the Georgia Department of Education. Based off of data from the UGA Fact Bookonly 23.6 percent of these students were enrolled at the University of Georgia the following semester.
According to The New York Times, the state of Georgia has more students going out than coming in, with almost 2,000 students from Georgia going to schools in Alabama each year.
Sophomore Ashley Williams said that when she was college searching, she was looking for a big school with a football team. This appears to be the same for other students as well. Enrollment data from other schools shows that in recent years 367 undergraduate students from Georgia were enrolled at the University of Florida, 728 students from Georgia were enrolled at the University of Tennessee, and 1,117 students from Georgia were enrolled at the University of South Carolina.
With all these students leaving Georgia it could be thought that out-of-state students take up a large percentage of the population at the University of Georgia. However, out of 29,611 undergraduates enrolled at the University of Georgia in 2018, 86.3 percent were in-state students.
David Graves, the senior associate director of undergraduate admissions, said in a press conference that there were 2,000 more applications for early action for fall of 2019 than fall of 2018. This includes a major growth in out-of-state applications. However, Graves said that out-of-state acceptances are not likely to reach 18 percent.
“I never received anything in the mail about UGA until I actually got down to applying, it just kind of came up on the list of big state schools in like the east coast region,” said Robyn Anzulis, a freshman from Maryland. Anzulis said that UGA was not even advertised to her as an out-of-state student.
Kate Hester 