F inance major Sofia Legoff Flores is ready to jump with both feet into life at Georgia College & State University. The Columbus High School graduate is already familiar with campus.

Legoff attended the first Multicultural Student Leadership Conference at Georgia College last year, and she was awarded a presidential scholarship at the President’s Scholarship Competition.

The MSLC is a program that introduces students to leadership through interactive sessions, student panels and collaborative projects. They stay in residence halls, work with current students and dine at the Maxwell Student Union.
 
Legoff intends to use her scholarship for a study abroad program in France or London. In the meantime, she’ll try out, well, everything.

Q: Why Georgia College?

A: I did an orientation here, and I just loved it. I love the campus. I fell in love with all the facilities. And the environment was just so good.

Q: What did you do at the first MSLC?

A: We worked on our leadership skills, and we went to classes about leadership. At the end of it, we did a presentation about what leadership means to us and what a good leader is. 

Q: What got you into finance?

A: I want to go to law school, and I feel like finance is the best degree that I have to sort of push me towards there. I want to try out everything. I got into making pottery last year, so I’m really interested in that too.

Q: Tell me about getting your presidential scholarship.

A: I did an interview, and then we did a mock class, and we argued about different sorts of topics. I really enjoyed it. It also really made me want to go to Georgia College, because of the small class sizes and the individual time that you would have with the professors.