What is the UGA Honors Program like?

jablalf
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:30:41 +0000

In my experience, Honors @ UGA is very good in connecting its students with opportunities. If there’s one way to summarize Honors, those are the words I’d use. They send out information daily about all kinds of different opportunities – academic, research, social, leadership, etc – and the Honors staff is excellent in helping students reach their goals. Whenever I’ve had questions about courses, internships, research, etc., my Honors advisor has not only answered those questions but has also provided me with lots of extra information that I would never have seen otherwise. As a UGA student, my scope of reference is limited so I can’t comment on the experience at Emory – but I will say that the students at Emory are lucky if they have access to the same opportunities that UGA provides.

As an illustration, I was talking with a friend yesterday and he told me how one of UGA’s academic extracurricular teams (think like model U.N, debate, mock trial) qualified for that activity’s National Championships for the second time in ~20 years. They needed funding to fly to the Nat’l Championship and Honors was able to arrange that funding literally an hour after being contacted. I doubt there are many other programs, or universities in general, who’d be so willing and able to support their students.