<p>EC
Basketball and Football for high school
Student Council
FBLA officer
Georgia Civics Awareness Program
Beta Club
National Technology Honors Society
Community Service Club
Also delivered meals on wheels route to seniors in the summer and coached a youth basketball team</p>
<p>I believe my essays were pretty good as well.</p>
<p>A feeder school is a high school that usually sends a LOT of kids to that particular school. For instance, the number 1 feeder school to UGA is the high school in Clarke-Oconee county, which is where UGA is. My D’s school is the #2 feeder H.S. in the state. Last year, not sure what graduating class was exactly, I’m assuming 600, they sent 91 students to UGA. D was applying as safety and to FF, but last week officially withdrew due to binding admission to to a top tier LAC.</p>
<p>OIC…that’s a new one. I assume our school is a “feeder school” as well…but when you graduate 800+ students, you can just assume many will go to the flagship school. It makes sense that Clarke-Oconee is #1 as it’s down the street, and where else would they go for joint enrollment? Son #1 loves UGA; son #2 has UGA for his backup plan. I love how close it is…next year will be very difficult w/ #2 far away OOS…oh well…time for mom to get over that!</p>
<p>A little research later: they do indeed rank these “feeder schools.” Apparently my kids attend a top 10 feeder school, and I didn’t even know it!</p>
<p>Top feeder schools for UGA of 2006
Walton 79
Brookwood 76
Pope 73
Milton 68
South Forsyth 68
Collins Hill 64
Lassister 64
Northview 62
Chattahoochee 59
Parkview 55
Roswell 53
Duluth 47</p>
<p>Wow, Duluth high is one of their feeder schools? I attended Duluth last year, 11th grade. It was an awesome school, and at least I learned something from there, unlike my current high school:(</p>
<p>Parkview? It’s seem to be one of the best high schools in GA. Some of my friends who went to Duluth High School said it’s even better than Duluth High.</p>
<p>Parkview is one of the best high schools in the state both academically and athletically. However, it has been slipping as of late and I feel that in perhaps 10-15 years it will slip further. I feel Brookwood is now the top school in the county and perhaps one of the best in the state, even though they are our rivals…</p>
<p>pardon me for asking, but other than cheap tuition what is the attraction of UGa? It is such a large school. If kids are that bright, why arent they going to Emory or GaTech or Vanderbilt or somewhere else?</p>
<p>UGA has many stellar departments. It is an active, vibrant campus. Students come from all over the country to attend. Not everyone has the means to attend the private schools you name, nor do they all want to study high tech fields/engineering. UGA offers many majors and students enjoy having so many wonderful fellow students to interact with. Yes, it’s a great value, especially for in state. However, the value is much greater than simply financial.</p>
<p>Tradition, outstanding education, and I’m not so sure that for us OOSers that you can say that tuition is cheap at UGA (our kids don’t get the Hope Scholarship). Also, some kids like all the opportunities that a big school provides. My D also does not want a school in a major metro city like Atlanta or Nashville - college town is more her style. We have connections/family ties to both Atlanta and Nashville so we looked at all the schools you mention, UGA trumped them for HER.</p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks. It’s not that one is better than the other per se, it is that one is better for HER than the others.</p>
<p>believer: I completely concur with you. Its all about what is best for each student and that is a personal decision. I know kids who went to a prep school for 12 years then opted for big public state schools in college, and I know kids from public high schools that opted for small private colleges. Go figure!</p>
<p>I also wonder how some of the big name state schools got where they are and why others are still muddling around in mediocrity? Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Washington, UCLA, CalBerkeley, Wisconsin are some of the most frequently mentioned as the upper echelon of publics. A few newcomers like Florida and Maryland are knocking on the door. But many others are perceived to be far behind them. I dont know if that is accurate or not because it seems to me that big public schools have a harder time differentiating themselves from other public schools, except of course by the ubiquitous sports phenomenon. In other words, I would have a hard time differentiating the quality of education at many of them. Some may be known for special programs. I just want to know why Georgia gets more attention than Auburn, Alabama, Florida State, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina State, Tennessee, Arkansas and West Virginia, in their immediate region?</p>
<p>I cannot answer as to the regional attention in GA, but up here in Yankee land I don’t believe that Auburn, Alabama or North Carolina get less attention than UGA. They are all on pretty equal footing attention-wise. Georgia Tech gets a fair amount also.</p>
<p>There is a similar regional issue up here regarding UW-Madison, to the point of rabidity (if that is even a word), sometimes I swear the GC are paid recruiters for the whole UW system (of which I am unimpressed except that for in-state it would be a bargin). Perhaps where you are it has to do with where UGA spends it’s HS recruiting time (not athletic, I mean visits to the HS’s information days, etc.) and what the HS GC spend their focus on. Or it could just be a factor of which school is the biggest in the state (some translate that into the “biggest is best” thought process). Or it could just be in a phrase…FOOTBALL LEGEND. Which for some seems shallow, but for others it is the college tradition americana that they have always dreamed their college experience to be. I get that. AND I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a factor in my own college decision years ago. I wanted to go to a school that looked like I’d always envisioned college to look like.</p>
<p>At this point I say go and make your college experience whatever you want it to be. I am thankful that my D did not revolve her HS education around where she wanted to go to college. She got the most out of her HS that she could without giving up a fun and carefree growing up time. She has a wonderful list of exciting options for college and I am confident she will be successful in college and in life.</p>
<p>Are you in school now or will you be starting in the fall? Where are you going?</p>