I’ve honestly hit a roadblock here. I was deferred from UGA so I won’t hear back until april 1st but I’m very confident I will get in. I loved it when I visited but I haven’t visited since junior year, and I’ve grown a lot as a person since. I’m not a very southern girl at all so I’m worried about not liking the south. Im from the Philadelphia suburbs and I hate country music hahaha. I love Pitt and I went to a few parties when I visited and stayed with friends, and it was a place I could see myself. The only downside is that a ton of people from my high school end up there which makes it kinda less unique and exciting. Lastly, IU was beautiful when I visited but Bloomington is so small and I’m such a city girl. Anyone have any advice comparing the three? I want to make a decision soon, I’m so sick of waiting.
Three great choices. A majority of the student population at UGA will be from metro Atlanta which is a metropolitan area full of transplants from elsewhere so students there should not seem too different than what you’re used to. Athens is a great college town. It has a diverse music scene but is known more for alt rock (think REM, B52s, Widespread Panic) than country. http://www.ranker.com/list/athens-bands-and-musical-artists-from-here/reference
Oh I love the music scene in Athens! Thats one of the most attractive things about it to me. I’m more concerned about the people that go there - when I took a tour I was the only one of 20 kids that was out of state. So I’m thinking theres going to be a lot of southerners there, country type/"southern bell"s
Except on football Saturdays in the fall, it won’t seem too different; maybe friendlier. Because of the Hope Scholarship, UGA is becoming a harder admit in-state and you’ll find a lot of good students from whatever background.
Maybe compare them based on what you’re interested in studying. They’re all good universities but maybe one has a particular strength in what you’re interested in. It’s hard to beat Pitt for health science fields, philosophy and its international area studies programs. For business, Kelly at IU would be a great choice (also for music). IU and UGA are both strong in communications. (Look at the Grady School at UGA if that interests you.) Pitt is in-state so it might be the best buy.
I’m toying with both International Studies and Communications. I’ll probably end up majoring in one and minoring/getting a certificate in the other
UPitt is just as dominated by Pennsylvania residents (89%) as UGA is dominated by Georgia residents (92%). Are you worried about the social scene at Pitt? It’s not quite like going to college in a different country or something 
Southerners are still Americans, number one. Number two, Southerners are all very diverse from each other - not all fit into the country-type/Southern belle stereotype, just like not all New Yorkers are Yankees fans from Brooklyn and not all Californians surf and go tanning. AS was already mentioned, UGA is going to have a mix of students from the more urban areas of Georgia like Atlanta (which actually does have a lot of transplants - my parents grew up in New York, and many of my friends from high school had parents from the Northeast) as well as people from more rural areas who don’t necessarily fit the stereotype.
In fact, I joke a lot that central Pennsylvania, where I currently live, actually reminds me a lot of the suburban Atlanta neighborhood in which I lived.
What are the costs like for you? You’re in-state for Pitt so that’s likely to be your least expensive option. Pitt has nearly 20,000 undergraduates; even if half the people from your high school go there, they will only be a small fraction of the undergraduate body and there will be so many other people for you to meet and hang out with. You would never have to see them, if you didn’t want to.
Being deferred from UGA doesn’t bode well for merit aid there, and I can’t imagine that they give tons of aid to OOS students. were you offered any aid from Indiana?
I thought I was a city girl too, before college. One of the things I learned is that when you’re in an urban area, the campus can get sort of deserted on the weekends, as people go to explore the city and find their fun out there. Of course, this depends on the school - some urban colleges may not be that way. And that might appeal to you, if you want to go out and have fun off-campus with friends. But I really wanted a vibrant campus life, and my college campus was pretty thriving M-F and then kind of dead on the weekends past sophomore year, which I didn’t like. Small towns like Bloomington and Athens mean that college students kind of dominate the scene; even “off-campus” is usually pretty close to campus (and accessible).