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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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