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Many of the students are from Atlanta, have taken many AP or IB course and find Athens to be the perfect college town. Rolling Stone rated Athens as number 1 among “campus scenes that rock” and Kiplinger’s has rated it a best value may times. It was recently named one of the hot schools by the Daily Beast.</p>