Merit aid at UGA is extremely limited for OOS applicants compared to South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Unlike these schools, UGA has ZERO automatic merit for OOS applicants, regardless of stats. Instate applicants will likely qualify for partial or full tuition through the Georgia Hope and Zell Miller scholarships. For OOS, there are just a few partial or full tuition waivers. They can also apply for a very limited number of full ride Foundation fellowships, which are extremely competitive (average GPA well above 4.0, SAT 1550+). Only 20 or so of these scholarships are awarded annually, out of an incoming class of 6000 or so.
Wouldnât say extremely limited. Itâs not impossible to get a half waiver. We did. And honors with far less stats than published. Full waiver hard. Yes itâs not auto or table driven like a Bama and as abundant as UTK. Sorry if I made it seem as it was.
14% receive per the website and thatâs not, I believe, including local GA govt money which so many get that are residents. Thatâs what they say but donât forget not everyone who gets attends so it may be more. Locally we know several that go, and most get the classic 1/2 OOS. Even full pay UGA is reasonable vs others though.
You may want to check your sources on Wake football lol.
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We visited Alabama, Clemson, and UGA.
My daughter was a NMF ('22), and we originally visited Alabama to check off the list. We went in with some preconceived notions, and UA exceeded those expectations in every respect. Despite the large enrollment, the campus lives relatively small and is walkable. It was well maintained (the best of the three you mentioned) and surprisingly scenic! IMO, the school does a great job of making a large campus feel small(er). The Strip and the downtown area are great for college kids. Plus, our official visit was the most organized, personalized, and professional of all of the public schools we visited. We were very impressed with all of the resources available to the students.
We also liked Clemson. We are from Atlanta so are used to living in an urban area. Although Clemson was under 2 hours from our house, it felt like a completely different world. It was remote and relatively rural. The downtown area is small, but the campus itself is well laid out with the academic buildings in the middle and residential areas on the perimeter. This made the campus walkable. The grounds did not seem to be maintained the best, and the campus was not particularly scenic. However, it was a top contender for a while.
As for UGA, it was my least favorite of all the schools we visited. It was huge - both in terms of size and enrollment. The engineering and Honors buildings are 1.8 miles from each other. Using the bus system would have been a necessity. Plus, the intro level classes were large! I left the campus visit feeling that everything about the school was impersonal. We are GA residents, and although my son would qualify for Zell Miller, he may not even end up applying to UGA. Also, the campus had some hills, and that made the campus feel very choppy to us.
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We had the exact same impression of UGA - âtoo spread out and not as walkable.â We visited a lot of large schools, but UGA is the only one that I felt was massive and impersonal.
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My son is at UGA and I can confirm- the campus is huge! He does a LOT of walking to and from class. In some cases, students have to be careful to not schedule classes back to back since 20 minutes between classes isnât enough time, e.g., to get from East Campus to North campus. On the flip side, he gets lots of exercise just from walking to class and rewards himself with ample desserts in the dining hall (he has always been a picky eater but says the dining halls are awesome!)
As for class size, he lucked out and got small classes this semesterâŠ.his largest class has 28 students (math). However, the intro classes in his major are always large (85 or so). He is also in Honors, so will have the option of taking Honors sections for some classes. Honors classes are typically 20 students or so, but of course not available in all fields.
He chose UGA over several more selective colleges because of geographic proximity to home, Zell Miller full tuition, and the fact that they took all of his DE associate degree credits.
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