Transferring to UGA, planned by someone who did it.
Every year a wave of students starts at UNG, the Oconee campus, Georgia State, Kennesaw, or Athens Tech with one goal: get to Athens. I was one of them; I transferred from Kennesaw. I help you pick the courses that actually count, keep your GPA where it has to be, and put together an application that says what the admissions office needs to hear, complete and in before the deadline.
Where they start, and where they go.
Schools my transfer students have come from and gone on to. The marks belong to their institutions and are shown for identification, not endorsement.
The transfer process is not hard.
It is unforgiving.
UGA’s transfer admission rate is higher than its freshman rate, which is why so many students plan on it. What nobody tells you is how many ways there are to lose a year. A course that doesn’t transfer the way you assumed. A GPA that slips one semester too early, when the requirement is tiered by how many hours you’ve completed. A purpose statement that reads like a college essay instead of an answer to the question they asked. A credit evaluation you didn’t know to plan around.
And the rules move. When I applied, UGA admitted transfers on a rolling basis, and I set an alarm for three in the morning the day applications opened. That’s gone: every file now waits for the March 1 deadline, decisions come out on one day in March, and there’s a wait list. For Fall 2027 the GPA for a straightforward offer also jumped to 3.80 with 30 to 59 hours. I transferred in from Kennesaw and dealt with every one of these. The point of working with me is that you don’t have to learn them the expensive way.
What I actually do together
Course plan
Semester by semester, from where you are now to the application. Which courses satisfy UGA’s requirements for your intended major, which are safe electives, and which to avoid because they won’t count the way you think.
GPA strategy
The requirement changes with your hour count, so timing matters. I work out when to apply, what your GPA needs to be at that point, and how to protect it, including tutoring in the courses that threaten it.
The application
The purpose statement, the documents, and the timeline, which matters more than people think because the application and every transcript have to be in by March 1. I have everything ready before the window opens. I read drafts, but I don’t write them for you. Admissions can tell.
After the letter
Credit evaluation, registration, and the first semester in Athens, which is where transfers most often stumble. If you want, I keep tutoring you through it.
Who this is for
Students at UNG in Dahlonega, Gainesville, or the Oconee campus. Students at Georgia State, Kennesaw, Georgia Gwinnett, or Athens Tech. Students at any other Georgia school with UGA as the goal. And parents of high school seniors who didn’t get in the first time and want a real plan for the second.
It is not for students who need someone to write their application. I’ll say so on the call.
“I transferred to UGA, which gives me personal, practical insight into the transfer admissions process that most consultants simply cannot offer.”
From the About page. The rest of that story.
Questions I get
Anything not covered here, ask me directly. (706) 389-0528.
Tell me where you are and where you want to be.
Current school, hours completed, intended major, and when you’d like to start at UGA. I reply within a day. (706) 389-0528 if a call is easier.