First-Year Experience

Transitioning from high school to college can be tough. Everything about life changes—from where you live to who you live with, what you eat and how you spend your time.   To help make that transition a bit smoother, Georgia College created dedicated programming, courses and support through the Office of First-Year Experience.At the helm as director since its inception in 2019 is Dr. Erin Weston. She was recently recognized by the National Resource Center and Cengage as one of 10 Outstanding...

For Rachel Locke, Georgia College was always at the top of her list for colleges. Graduating from a larger high school in Alpharetta, she was interested in the smaller and more intimate class sizes that GC offers. She applied to Georgia College before any other school, but by the time she’d received a letter notifying her that she’d been recommended to the Bridge Scholars Program, a summer transitional program required as a contingent of acceptance, she’d already been accepted at other...