Tell Us about the University of Georgia

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Anonymous wrote:I'm originally from Atlanta and had many friends who went to UGA's honors college. Especially if the price is right, I wouldn't hesitate to send your kid there. The program is very well resourced, and my friends had amazing opportunities while they're there. Most of them no longer live in GA, multiple lived abroad for stints, many continued on to great grad school programs. And if the worst case scenario is that your kid lives and works in Atlanta, well, Atlanta is way better than DC is many, many ways.

Atlanta is a giant soulless suburb filled with very average people.

I know - this whole post seems fake. Why would a top student even apply to the University of Georgia?

It’s a beautiful university in a kick-ass town with good weather. So much nicer than, say, UMD, which has generic buildings in a dumpy suburb in a crime-ridden county.

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Anonymous wrote:Typical SEC school.

Not great.

Lots of drinking

Football First ... College second. Like Penn State, if the choice came between abolishing the school or the football program then the school would be abolished.

Other than that , it looks like fun!

+1. It's a football school. Their campus recruiting is lacking and students rarely have summer internships in large cities. It's an SEC school. It's gotten harder to get into in recent years but the academics haven't improved.

Do you have personal experience? Because our family hasn’t found this to be the case at all. Daughter will graduate in May from the Terry School of Business and has offers from multiple Fortune 500 companies already. Her fellow classmates the same.

+1 same re our extended family's graduates

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Anonymous wrote:I'm originally from Atlanta and had many friends who went to UGA's honors college. Especially if the price is right, I wouldn't hesitate to send your kid there. The program is very well resourced, and my friends had amazing opportunities while they're there. Most of them no longer live in GA, multiple lived abroad for stints, many continued on to great grad school programs. And if the worst case scenario is that your kid lives and works in Atlanta, well, Atlanta is way better than DC is many, many ways.

Atlanta is a giant soulless suburb filled with very average people.

Hmmm...we live in Atlanta. I don't think "very average" describes those who live here; and, believe me, we've got soul!

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According to neighborhood scout, Athens has 25 % more violent crime than College Park. And that's the nice part of Georgia. The south is a pit.

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Anonymous wrote:According to neighborhood scout, Athens has 25 % more violent crime than College Park. And that's the nice part of Georgia. The south is a pit.

Hmm. Did the county in which Athens is located have as many murders last year as PG?

Even if it did, Athens is still far more interesting than College Park. It doesn't get much uglier than Baltimore Avenue near UMD.

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Anonymous wrote:The alumni list is not very impressive. No presidents or presidential candidates , no highly impactful in science, technology or business creators , no cultural icons having anything to do with academics.

But it looks fun.

You must be the same troll who tries to convince people College Park isn’t a dump because of a few scientists and entrepreneurs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Georgia_people

You can tell because of the ridiculous punctuation placement . Why didn’t Marylan d teach such basic grammar .

A few?

U.MD alumni invented Google, Oculus Rift, the Muppets, the Universal Price Code, the Hybrid Engine, the Octane system , Linear programming , oral contraceptives , Linear Programming, Underarmour , FLAVORX, the Jumbotron , pulse Dopplar radar, broke Watergate, launched Sirius Satellite, invented the embedded insulin pump, the early warning epilepsy implant, the embedded defribulator.

It's more of a lacrosse school than a football school.

Oh, here we go again.


Of course MD isn't a football school, was that ever even a discussion point? Nobody thinks of MD as an 'anything' school. Not academic, not sporty, not urban, not surburban - just ehhh across the boards.

This thread is about UGA by the way, there are plenty of other threads where the PP talks about the greatness of Larry David and Jim Henson.

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You left out
Sergey Brin
Russell Marker
Martin Omalley
Carly Fiorina
Kevin Plank
Boomer Esiason
Connie Chung
Carl Bernstein
Gayle King
Guiliana Rancik
Dianne Weist
Etc...

Without College Park and Google , the Universal Product Code, Watergate discovered, the Octane System, the Muppets, oral Contraceptives, Seinfeld, the Wire, Underarmour , the Hybrid Engine, Oculus Rift, the Jumbotron , weather radar, Sirius Satellite Radio...

The country would be unrecognizable . Nobody would notice if UGA alumni never existed .

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Anonymous wrote:The alumni list is not very impressive. No presidents or presidential candidates , no highly impactful in science, technology or business creators , no cultural icons having anything to do with academics.

But it looks fun.

You must be the same troll who tries to convince people College Park isn’t a dump because of a few scientists and entrepreneurs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Georgia_people

You can tell because of the ridiculous punctuation placement . Why didn’t Marylan d teach such basic grammar .

A few?

U.MD alumni invented Google, Oculus Rift, the Muppets, the Universal Price Code, the Hybrid Engine, the Octane system , Linear programming , oral contraceptives , Linear Programming, Underarmour , FLAVORX, the Jumbotron , pulse Dopplar radar, broke Watergate, launched Sirius Satellite, invented the embedded insulin pump, the early warning epilepsy implant, the embedded defribulator.

It's more of a lacrosse school than a football school.

Oh, here we go again.


Of course M.D. isn't a football school, was that ever even a discussion point? Nobody thinks of MD as an 'anything' school. Not academic, not sporty, not urban, not surburban - just ehhh across the boards.

This thread is about UGA by the way, there are plenty of other threads where the PP talks about the greatness of Larry David and Jim Henson.

Must be school is too modest because
Compared to Georgia , College Park has more Nobels, more Pulitzers, more academy awards, more Emmys, more fields medals, much higher SATs , infinitely more impactful alumni , unmatched and convenient internships, a surrounding community with 25 percent less violent crime and.... Wait for it...

More national championships including the top 4 most popular college sports football, basketball, woman's basketball and men's soccer.

Non impactful , dumb, non athletic and surrounded by violent crime is no way to go through life!!

[Anonymous]

Being a Graduate if both fine institutions this is not a zero sum game. Both Maryland and Georgia are attracting amazing students with crazy high test scores and grades. Both schools have been skyrocketing since I went there.

Athens is the best College Town I’ve been to and I’ve been to many. It has a great vibe with combines Southern Hospitality with school spirit everywhere you go. College Park is a beautiful campus and the town has been undergoing revitalization for the last decade. Hating on College Park is at your own risk as you will be missing out on a tremendous educational opportunity if you hold on to old stereotypes about College Park.

My daughter got into UGA early acceptance with a scholarship. It is her 3rd choice and we are waiting patiently on her #1 choice which is Maryland. She couldn’t go wrong with either school as they are both trending towards being great.

BTW don’t give up on Maryland Football ? yet with DJ Durkin bringing in Top #20 Recruiting classes, but this week it’s time to Call the Dawgs!! Anybody but Bama..

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College Park is a beautiful campus? Are you kidding me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College Park is a beautiful campus? Are you kidding me?

College Park made it

Athens didn't

http://www.businessinsider.com/beautiful-iconic-college-campus-quads-2014-1


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qT4nQ_ZKtEs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College Park is a beautiful campus? Are you kidding me?

I assume you haven’t been. College Park ironically has beautiful Georgian Architecture throughout the campus. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the actual campus. Haters gonna hate!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm originally from Atlanta and had many friends who went to UGA's honors college. Especially if the price is right, I wouldn't hesitate to send your kid there. The program is very well resourced, and my friends had amazing opportunities while they're there. Most of them no longer live in GA, multiple lived abroad for stints, many continued on to great grad school programs. And if the worst case scenario is that your kid lives and works in Atlanta, well, Atlanta is way better than DC is many, many ways.

Atlanta is a giant soulless suburb filled with very average people.

The suburbs may be soulless, but the neighborhoods inside the perimeter (aka Atlanta's equivalent of the Beltway) are not.

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Anonymous wrote:The downside of UGA is that it is mostly Georgia residents and most grads will end up in Atlanta. If that's where your daughter wants to end up that's fine. Atlanta has good employment opportunities. Fewer UGA grads will be chasing jobs on Wall Street, fashion, Silicon Valley etc. There is a huge football and Greek culture and both dominate over academics. The smart UGA grads I knew went straight to law school and most of them because they couldn't find other jobs. I wouldn't send my daughter out of state to UGA unless it kept her from taking on significant student loans. I'd also have a plan for summer internships as they aren't going to have many in Athens.

This was entirely my experience as an honors student at UGA. I found my niche, but your daughter is going to face intense pressure to "look" a certain way if she wants to be accepted in many greek organizations. I didn't go through this and opted at doing my own thing, working in a bar and taking classes. I ended up at a top law school and was a gainfully employed biglaw attorney. So YMMV

OP here. Thank you for sharing your experiences. I don't believe my DD will want to gravitate toward Greek life. I was hoping that given the size of the school she would be able to find her own niche and had hoped that other honor students would form the basis of that niche. How close knit of a group are the honor students ? I had hoped that as there is an honors dorm it would be a bit of its own community. Is that not the case ?

Thank you.

PP here. It is and it isn't. The honors college has a lot of overlap with campus leadership groups like student government and Greek organizations. If anything, I found my own niche working, but I've had friends who were happy in the marching band or got involved with religious groups, which were surprisingly popular. It's a big school and there's something for everyone, but if you are quirky it might take some more digging to find it.

It's a good school. I had a good experience, studied abroad, which was encouraged, and interned at a federal agency in DC that actually paid and paid for housing (the Foreign Ag Service).

I will say this. It's a big school and if you want to, you can fade into the background and no one will notice or care. If your DD needs help or has a mental health issue, my friends who were in this position had terrible experiences. It's not a hand holding type of place that you might find in a smaller college.

I think that PPs advice rings true for any large state school though, and really isn't specific to UGA. If UGA won't work for her because there will be less handholding, and she may have to work to find her niche, maybe a large state school isn't for her. I remember being a grad student at Michigan and feeling so grateful that my undergrad was spent at a small SLAC. I personally did not go to UGA myself for a reason. But your daughter can certainly get a top notch education there, and will have excellent opportunities after graduation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being a Graduate if both fine institutions this is not a zero sum game. Both Maryland and Georgia are attracting amazing students with crazy high test scores and grades. Both schools have been skyrocketing since I went there.

Athens is the best College Town I’ve been to and I’ve been to many. It has a great vibe with combines Southern Hospitality with school spirit everywhere you go. College Park is a beautiful campus and the town has been undergoing revitalization for the last decade. Hating on College Park is at your own risk as you will be missing out on a tremendous educational opportunity if you hold on to old stereotypes about College Park.

My daughter got into UGA early acceptance with a scholarship. It is her 3rd choice and we are waiting patiently on her #1 choice which is Maryland. She couldn’t go wrong with either school as they are both trending towards being great.

BTW don’t give up on Maryland Football ? yet with DJ Durkin bringing in Top #20 Recruiting classes, but this week it’s time to Call the Dawgs!! Anybody but Bama..

OP here.

Thank you. This is helpful. And good luck and congratulations to your daughter.