UGA honors or GT?- potentially a future vet

BanjoHitter
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:36:02 +0000

I can tell you that everything Chronome said is misleading. Campus has a thriving social life for all majors, including Biology. The classes are more difficult than those I’ve taken at other campuses, but that’s to be expected from a top school. Like anywhere, I suppose it’s possible that someone studies 24/7, but that’s very rare and is someone that really shouldn’t have been admitted to GT.

The school, including the Biology department, as well known and that provides a strong boost in grad school admissions - people are impressed when you say you go to Tech, and the school is well known all over the country and the world. The real draw is that there are employers that hire from GT that you’d never see at other schools. These employers go to the “very top” schools to hire, and come to GT for engineering students (but also hire non-engineers while on campus). These are the types of companies that hire you at six figures, put you on a fast track to Harvard Business School, and give you senior executive mentors from top companies. The career options really are truly amazing and you wouldn’t even know these career paths existed outside of a school like GT.

But if you’re going to Vet Med school, and you are dead-set on that career path, you should go to UGA. You can actually get exposure to the Vet Med program at UGA and the school is known in the Vet Med school circles.