Vanderbilt or UGA Honors?

trey1105
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:54:59 +0000

The most important question is what do you feel that your child will be most successful and less on rankings. Both my son and my wife had choices of free vs student loans and they picked Vandy and are happy that they did. As far as engineering and grad schools are concerned, everything is probably equal unless the school specializes in one field, like Vandy has a great Bio-medical eng. program with lots of research opportunities. My son is Bio Medical and his first semester a group of four made a prosthetic arm for a patient out of the Childrens Hosp. This past semester they were working on artificial hips. As far as Grad Schools are concerned, Grad School rankings are more important than Undergrad rankings if that is your intent. Thus were you go to undergrad doesnt matter as much. So pick a school that you can advance as an individual because you will do most of your growing up during these years. UGa is a big school and you can get lost unless you are a very strong individual. Vandy is small and looks after you as an individual. Good luck either way you will be fine.