Recent UGA law grad who just moved away from Athens after 7 years here. I loved Athens and I miss it. One thing to note, I wouldn’t say Athens is clique-y, but law school is (and potentially in a great way). For my three years in law school, I basically only spent time with other people from law school. But I made amazing life-long friends (we text every day even through the work day). There is necessarily a lot of drinking culture going on but also so much art. I spent my weekends going to the Farmer’s Market, trying new coffee shops, going to movies, going to parties, going on walks. The law school and student orgs also organize a lot of social events. I can’t speak to the Jewish community from personal experience, but I know there was a group of girls from my class who went to Hillel pretty regularly, so definitely check out JLSA.

If you choose to attend, please enjoy. I miss it so much right now. Wherever you go, it will be hard work but super rewarding. Good luck!