I’m trying to decide between UGA (with full scholarship), St Andrews in Scotland, UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, and Notre Dame. I plan to major in Classics.
What is the total COA for each school ?
Will you need student loans to attend of these schools ? If yes, then attend based on lowest COA as classics majors often attend graduate/professional school and it is better to attend grad school without existing student loan debt.
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Good point. UGA is free. All the rest full price.
UGA Honors College and, possibly, Foundation Fellows, is the easy answer.
If admitted to U Georgia as a Foundation Fellow, the travel component could be a great incentive as a trip to Rome or to Greece would enhance the study of classics.
If your daughter were to switch her major, which school would she prefer among her options ?
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Notre Dame offers a funded 2 year masters degree program in classics. Therefore, regardless of your undergraduate school, you could still experience Notre Dame after earning a BA degree.
St. Andrews should be a great place to study classics.
The only classics major I know well studied at Princeton University.
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You have UGA with a full scholarship, then you have a list of schools out of state and paying full price. The decision should be a no-brainer. 
Go UGA.
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With respect to your U.S. choices, this site may be of interest:
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Wow! UGA +Honors (+Foundation Fellows?) for free would be the choice - with the money saved you can spend Spring Break in Malta freshman year, be off to Crete, Mykonos, Naples&Pompei, the South of France, Bath and Hadrian’s Wall… basically anytime you want you can visit, go on digs, -and, pretty important for your major, study abroad.
St Andrews is the odd one out: you’d have 3 classes per semester, Latin, Greek, and one more - no gen eds whatsoever, and a lot of independent learning with high stakes testing (though the weight if your 1st year would provide you with a buffer to get used to it).
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Unfortunately, the University of St. Andrews is among the best in the world for the study of classics.
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Yes, I’m torn because St A would offer four steady years abroad in a very old and historic place, whereas UGA would offer semesters abroad and a majority of semesters in Athens.
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We are all assuming the UGA is the foundation fellows since you say it’s free. Is it?
While UGA is free, and the others full pay, which are affordable?
Would having $200K+ benefit your family?
Or they can well afford any of them without a hit to life?
What is your desired outcome after school?? More school?
Classics is a tough one to translate to money making so the smart thing is UGA.
But if money is no concern, then go to what you want.
I don’t know major/departments to know rank or if rank matters, etc. I would ensure that each school has the breadth of courses you desire - and offered on a regular basis - as this is the kind of department that gets cut - when they trim budgets and you want to ensure it’s not been cut to the bone - hence check not just the breadth of courses but the frequency they are offered.
Best of luck.
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Yes, it is FF.
FF comes with so many extra plusses (specialized attention from faculty etc) that it will likely open many doors.
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I’d take the FF, study abroad, and work with the FF program to make yourself competitive for a post-grad fellowship or top ranking PhD program.
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I didn’t know that about ND. Thanks for the tip!
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