<p>I got into UGA Honors, and it's a free ride with HOPE and finaid, but I also got into NYU with $38,000 a year. I plan to major in English for the meanwhile...I really have no interest in math/science in general. </p>
<p>Discuss?</p>
<p>Unless you are really set on New York, I think turning down UGA would be crazy -- as you probably know, its honors program is top notch.
Save your money for grad school or a condo or a great car or two!</p>
<p>So what is the final cost of NYU? $10K a year after $38,000 in finaid? That's not unreasonable. Add up the total debt you think you'd leave school with. Look long and hard at that number. Especially for an English major, that might be a lot of money to pay off in the future.</p>
<p>Money aside, because my parents are willing to pay....which school is better?</p>
<p>I've read that comment in so many threads. "My parents will pay, so it's not an issue". Yes, money is still an issue. An investment is an investment. Because it's not coming out of your pocket, doesn't mean that your family is losing money from that decision. Your family's money is your money.</p>
<p>NYU's COA is about $50,000/year. After FA, that's $12,000/year more than Georgia. Over 4 years taking into account rising tuition, that's $50,000 more for a NYU degree over a UGA Honors degree. I don't think it's worth it. There is not a huge drop in prestige. UGA is giving you a free degree, and a great one at that. Why pay for a degree when you don't have to?</p>
<p>NYU hands down. It has a national reputation. UGA does not.</p>
<p>I'm a frugal sort but I'd think that the NYU degree would be worth $12,000/year more IF a family can afford that.</p>
<p>I generally feel that U.Ga. has an anti-intellectual culture. Not non-intellectual - anti-intellectual. Very pro-football however. Do your conversations consist of "HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS!!!" a dozen times a day, followed by your best imitation of a manic barking bulldog? No? There's more substance to them than that? OK, then you sound more like an NYU type.</p>
<p>I meant "money aside" more as in, without taking into consideration tuition, which offers the better education: NYU or UGA honors?</p>
<p>But thanks to everyone who replied!</p>
<p>UGa. Honors. Besides the quality of education, if you really wanted to be in New York City, then Georgia would not be an issue. The social aspects of each school are quite different.</p>
<p>NYU all the way. But then again I'm prejudiced.</p>
<p>How in the world did it come to pass that you applied to these two colleges? They are about as different as they come in almost every respect. </p>
<p>I share some of gadad's trepidations about U Georgia. While an Honors student will have some advance registration benefits (which actually is a big advantage and helps you avoid a lot of the less attractive aspects of a big state U), the environment is mostly not an academic one. On a campus with 25,000+ undergraduates, there are certainly some who have been able to have an academically-oriented experience, but the campus culture is not wired that way. </p>
<p>But NYU? Are there other choices or is this it??</p>
<p>UGA. Definitely.</p>
<p>Hawkette: UGA was my safety, so there was no way I wouldn't be applying to it. But my problem is basically:</p>
<p>having the advantages of being an honors students and probably having an easier time to maintain a 4.0 VS. being in a more academically conducive environment.</p>
<p>Hawkette - You'd like NYU's academic program with U.Ga.'s football program, right? ;-) (yeah, me too.)</p>
<p>"NYU hands down. It has a national reputation. UGA does not."</p>
<p>B.S. And you know it. NYU may have a national reputation among soccer moms, but it has an amazing reputation to the people that MATTER...like the Rhodes Foundation. The evidence is in the numbers.</p>
<p>Is the NYU acceptance to Stern or general admittance? What attracted you to NYU in the first place and are some of those elements available in Athens? </p>
<p>I may have sounded harsher in my earlier comments about U Georgia than I intended as they are definitely retaining more good students as a result of HOPE and the school is improving. But it's not a public elite on the scale of U Virginia or U North Carolina and is much more like a Clemson. Still good, but not going to be confused with the top colleges in the Southeat. Having said that, I think that the Georgia folks would like to get there, but they do need to create more of an environment that celebrates academic excellence and, from what I've heard and know of the school, it's just not there yet in any consequential size. This does not mean that it can't become this way and that you yourself can't be part of that evolution, but this is the way that I see the college today.</p>
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I generally feel that U.Ga. has an anti-intellectual culture. Not non-intellectual - anti-intellectual. Very pro-football however. Do your conversations consist of "HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS!!!" a dozen times a day, followed by your best imitation of a manic barking bulldog? No? There's more substance to them than that? OK, then you sound more like an NYU type.
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Really? That's not judging a book by its cover at all. Because someone has school spirit and enjoys football that means they are anti-intellectual?</p>
<p>U Georgia is a little different from a place like U Michigan or U Virginia or U North Carolina where football or basketball is played at a very high level and teams are highly consequential on the national scene. The students and fans of those colleges have great spirit, but there is also great pride in the academic level offered by those colleges. Spend time at U Georgia and it's just....different. They love their DAWGS (and goodness knows that their football is nationally consequential and one of the favorites for the national title), but they don't spend a lot of energy loving and boasting about their college's academic excellence. It's just not what they most value when it comes to the U Georgia. At least not today, but I would agree that it is better than a decade ago and headed in the right direction.</p>