UGA Honors v. Oxford/Emory

Nomorelurker
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:45:47 +0000

@Emmycat, we toured both the Honor’s orientation at UGA and Emory. Honors program at UGA is one of the best in the country. S is into the Honors program at UGA but will make his final decision in a couple weeks after all results are back.

If D wants to do research, she can apply to be CURO at UGA and there is tremendous support at UGA to hook her up with internships and research, even can apply for $4,000 study abroad research grants.

I know Emory is strong for pre-med and not sure where neuroscience falls, but consider that UGA will likely be easier to get higher GPA if D wants to pursue med school or grad school down the road. It is likely more rigorous and harder at Emory to keep GPA up at Emory in some of the weed out classes. Honors classes at UGA also have some smaller classes available to take. Myers Hall is the designated Honor’s dorm and very nice. There is a serious community of students there, so Greek life is not going to be an issue. Also, food at UGA is consistently ranked one of the highest in the country for colleges.

That being said, D will have consistently smaller classes at Emory and Oxford. At Emory, she would have access to great internships right at the CDC or in town hospitals. Some of those may be available through UGA in the summer though. UGA may have a Double Dawg Master’s Degree available in her major as well (Masters in 5 years).

If D has a lot of AP credits going in, UGA students can often double major in 4 years as well. We met a student who actually got her Master’s Degree in Public Health and and Undergrad degree in Communications at UGA in four years! I would save the “prestige” for grad school if she does not get her graduate degree in five years at UGA. Emory is a great school too so can’t go wrong either way. Good luck!