<p>Hello All.</p>
<p>I posted to find out if I should transfer to UGA from U of South Carolina, probably during the second half of my sophomore year. I am currently a high school senior, and will be a freshman at USC's honors college. </p>
<p>I personally feel that UGA has a better feel to it, and I feel that it also might have better research opportunities, given it's honors college and large size. </p>
<p>Would it be worth it to transfer? Is the process of transferring hard?</p>
<p>Are you instate for UGa? Do you qualify for HOPE?</p>
<p>If you’re not instate for UGa, will your parents happily pay UGa’s much higher OOS costs? </p>
<p>I have no idea why you’d think UGa’s honors college would have more opps than USoCa’s honors college. Where’s any evidence of that?</p>
<p>I am in-state for both schools, as my dad works in Georgia.</p>
<p>And I’m not sure. But UGA ranks far ahead of South Carolina on most rankings, including those based on value. Not to mention it’s much harder to be accepted to UGA’s honor college, especially when you look at their stats.</p>
<p>Maybe you should actually go to USC and see what it has to offer before you make plans on transferring? Stop worrying about ranking and see what SC honors is all about. Who knows, you might love the place - and I’m not just talking about academics.</p>
<p>I don’t see a provision for in-state status for children of non-residents who work in GA.
<a href=“https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/residency-for-in-state-tuition.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.uga.edu/article/residency-for-in-state-tuition.html</a></p>
<p>You wouldn’t be in-state for UGA unless your family had moved there and established domicile at least 12 months before your enrollment in college. I saw a ranking the other day in which the Honors College at USC was one of the top-ranked ones in the country.</p>
<p>Every situation is different, but I will tell you that my son was considering transferring out of an Ivy a few years ago and was accepted at several excellent schools (including UChicago) as a transfer student and was rejected by Georgia, even though he had been accepted as a freshman. He had a strong GPA, too. (he stayed where he was)</p>
<p>@Erin’s dad and GAdad, moving to GA and establishing “residency” is not an issue, my parents can do that. I just don’t know whether I should do it or not. </p>
<p>@MomofWild: Why did your son want to transfer out? Did he want to transfer to UGA’s honors college?</p>
<p>I’m not sure how the Honors College transfer would have worked. He didn’t like his freshman classes or the intellectual level, but he wound up liking soph and subsequent years a lot better.</p>
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You don’t know if you should make your parents move just so you can go to UGA? How noble.</p>
<p>Let me get this straight. You haven’t yet taken a class at South Carolina or experienced any of the HC offerings and you are already planning a transfer in your second year? Give USC and the honors program your best and excel there. If you do, I personally think you will be as good a candidate for employment as you would if you went to UGA. Just as importantly you will have saved your parents a lot of money and headache.</p>
<p>Your parents would need to move there a YEAR before you go to school there. So, they’d have to move very, very soon…like next month or so. </p>
<p>I think you’re underestimating the expenses and issues associated with moving. I find it hard to believe that your parents would do this just so you could be instate at UGa.</p>
<p>And, if your parents did move, will they pay the whole COA for UGA (probably about $25k per year)? you won’t get aid because their aid is very HOPE oriented and you don’t qualify for that.</p>
<p>This is sounding ridiculous. Go to USoCarolina and do your best. They have a very good honors college.</p>
<p>UGA is certainly not ahead in honors. USC Honors was just rated #1 public university honors program. My daughter just finished her first year there. Housing is great. Great extra advising help. Office of research does great job of communicating research and fellowship opportunities for students. I know that 100% of USC honors got some kind of scholarship. If you are instate for USC and got accepted to Honors (check USC thread…kids with good stats didn’t get in this year), then you also probably have Palmetto Fellow money which goes up to $10,000 as sophmore for STEM majors.</p>
<p>Obviously, if there is a certain major you want, that could be a consideration. Each school has some strengths in certain majors…for instance UGA probably has better pipeline to vet school than USC.</p>