Middle / High School

As you may be aware, due to concern about people congregating in large groups due to COVID-19, the College Board and ACT have suspended all upcoming ACT and SAT testing dates indefinitely.

 Since ACT and SAT scores are an integral part of our usual admissions process, without action on our part, this step would prevent thousands of students from completing their admissions application to USG institutions this spring and summer. To deal with this problem the Chancellor has approved a temporary adjustment to our admissions criteria that allows institutions to approve students for admission if they do not have ACT or SAT scores.  For this approach we have calculated new High school GPA (HSGPA) thresholds to be used as admissions criteria for each sector. These thresholds match the same percentiles on the HSGPA distribution as the traditional places on the Freshman Index distribution that we usually use for admission. Of course, if the student has scores then the institution is free to use them in the established way

We have also expanded presidential exception percentages to allow some greater flexibility in considering students whose GPA does not fully reflect their record and do not have an opportunity to represent that on the ACT or SAT exam.
 
This change does not affect Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia since they have already admitted their freshmen classes, and have students on waiting lists.