University of Georgia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I grew up in Atlanta and went to private school there and found that many of my high school peers couldn’t afford to go out of state for college. Private schools are significantly cheaper than say, DC or NYC, and many more middle/upper middle class families send their kids to private schools there. And the private school educations meant their families weren’t able to save as much for college. Also, PP that said that UGA is a cultural thing in GA have it right. Families in GA are obsessed with it (ask me how I know, given an ex-boyfriend whose family owned a store in an Atlanta suburb selling UGA gear). I went to an ivy league school and a college counselor at Pace Academy told the admissions counselor at my university that students at Pace weren’t interested in New England colleges. That Pace students wanted to go to UGA and participate in Greek life. And when I was working for a state legislator after college and I was applying for law schools, everyone congratulated me when I got into UGA Law and assumed I would go there over the top-5 law school I also got into. In GA, people legitimately think you can’t do better than UGA.

This is helpful, thanks! DC's aren't really into UGA like their peers seem to be, and we also wondered why. Guess it's just a regional culture thing!