Hi. My name is Scott Angle. I'm the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia. We've got three campuses in Tifton, Griffin, and Athens. I'm here today to talk about the admissions process. It's no secret that getting into the University of Georgia is difficult. Our SAT scores and our incoming required GPA are awfully, awfully high. If you've gone to a high school, particularly in South Georgia or maybe you had no SAT prep, it's a little tough to get that good SAT. If you feel like you're in that situation, the best thing you can do is talk to us now, and talk to us often. Go to your County Extension office. Come to the Tifton campus in South Georgia, or in Griffin, or come up to Athens. We'll let you know what you need to do, what the requirements are.

If you don't get in as a freshman, there are several other pathways in the University of Georgia now. For instance, you can transfer in quite easily. If you go to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and after two years, you need a 2.8 GPA to transfer either to our Tifton campus or up to Athens. After one year you need a 3.2 GPA for automatic transfer.

So not everyone does get in as a freshman. Again, it's awfully hard to get in. But if you don't, I want everyone to know that there are alternative pathways to Athens, or to our programs in Tifton and Griffin. But the main thing to do is talk to us soon. Let us know what your issues are, and we'll try to do everything we can in our power, to help get you in.

There's still a deficit of college educated, agricultural workers in this state. We need to be training more students in the College of Agriculture, more students at ABAC, more students at Fort Valley, and even some at technical colleges. So we're all working together, to try to make sure that the state workforce is there to provide the jobs that exist in Georgia today.

For more information on this, you can go to www.caes.uga.edu.