Accepted for Fall class of 2025

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First of all, congratulations!

If your son takes any classes in the Summer, they do not have to be on-campus. Students must take 9 hours of college courses during the summer at some point in their career to graduate, but they can be either in-person on your school’s campus, online, or at one of Florida’s community colleges (which are no longer called “community” colleges).

UCF has a very robust online program – in fact, they are close to 100% online right now and Spring 2021 doesn’t look any better.

We were all set for registration on Friday with 3 of 5 courses for the Spring in-person (yay!). Today all three of them changed to online – and we are stuck with the dorm whether she actually goes or not. Total BS.

If he DOES choose to attend UCF Main Campus, he will not need a car, even if they do have in-person classes. The campus is very walkable, and there is an excellent on-campus shuttle bus system.

I certainly would NOT send him to campus if his classes are going to be online anyway. That’s just a total waste of money.

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@JimDadinmia That is too bad about the dorm situation. What exactly is the policy? At another school my S had a similar situation to your D where at one point most of his classes were in person, then it switched to all online and we were easily able to get out of the dorm contract.

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Our problem is that she is in Towers, which is an annual contract dorm – Fall, Spring, and Summer, and you pay whether you attend or not.

I am drafting a letter to UCF housing asking to be released from the contract because they have reneged on their end of the deal.

I am not hopeful that they will release us, and if not, we will reevaluate whether to continue at UCF.

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@JimDadinmia I hope the letter works…keep us posted. Since we are in MN and part of the draw of UCF besides academics is the warm weather, my D would probably want to be on campus even if there were online only classes, but I could see a lot of students not feeling that way and not wanting to spend the $ for dorms for online when originally expecting an in class experience.

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I talked to my daughter about it, and she wants to remain with her roommates regardless. I sent an email the the President of UCF explaining my displeasure instead.

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Towers is where my son would like to live in the Fall. Other than the obvious displeasure over online classes/contracts, is your child happy living there?

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I have been reading reddit for each school to see how the students feel they are handling CO-VID and it is very scary. Many students are complaining about their mental health and not doing well in classes due to them being online.

I hope UCF re-evaluates having more in person classes.

The data shows that it is not being transmitted through the schools. Although there can be multiple cases at a school, they can be traced back to outside of school activities or parties.

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Yes, she LOVES the Towers. She is in the standard 4 bedroom/2 bath apartment. She is in Tower 4 and we have a friend whose daughter is in Tower 3. Both really like Towers – full kitchen, living/dining room, it’s a full apartment.

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UCF has abundant mental health support for students. They should take full advantage of it.

I agree. Our daughter has had great difficulty with one of her online classes. The instructor is not a native English-speaker, and she cannot understand much of what he says in an online presentation. We are from Miami, and she is very accustomed to language/accent challenges – but this guy is impossible.

I’m also not convinced that UCF was entirely honest or ethical in their preparations for Spring 2021. First they made a big deal of announcing that they were expanding in-person classes. And then, at the very last second, they changed classes back to 100% online. I can’t come up with a scenario where that could be legitimately honest.

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Well, my D21 was finally accepted Friday after getting Luke van Blaricom’s very gracious help with finding her SAT scores. Nice to have the acceptance in hand.

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My D just got accepted! GPA UW 3.9/W 4.1 and 27 ACT. OOS great EC and leadership.

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@jeneric @JimDadinmia Does anyone know when UCF announces rates for the next school year? When should we expect to know tuition/housing costs for 2021-22 academic year? TIA

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I do not know, but a call to the Housing office would probably give you the answer.

Last year we committed and made the housing deposit in Feb, and we knew what we would pay for the year. But we were in Annual Contract housing in the Towers.

I seem to remember, however, that the academic year housing contracts (Libra, Nike-Hercules, Lake Claire, Apollo, Neptune, etc) were not set until way later – not long before room selection.

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I want to say it was pretty late for housing- summer??? I think @JimDadinmia is right about annual coming out first. I’m remembering looking in summer and having no idea what it would be.

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Roommate match is open and D is noticing noticing a lot of returning students. I expected it to be mostly FTIC students.

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Has anyone heard when orientation is and if it will be virtual this year? I can’t tell if information on the UCF website about being virtual is for 2021 or not updated from 2020.

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Unfortunately, that is for THIS year – which really sucks. UCF is being incredibly slow to try to restore some sense of a normal college life.

Here’s a link where they say virtual for Summer/Fall 2021:
https://orientation.ucf.edu/about/cost/

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Thank you-That is the same information I saw, but I didn’t see where it said is was for 2021 but I see it now. There isn’t much chatter on here about UCF.

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There was a post on FB on the UCF parents page from UCF First Year Experience that Orientation will be virtual again. You do not need to be a member to see posts.
I was saddened to hear that, although I believe Honors orientation is before our school is even finished for the year. So maybe it is a blessing in disguise for us. Also knowing that the school at least had students on campus and are slowing bringing things back is better than nothing. All of these things will be part of his final decision.

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Truth be told, the school really hasn’t brought much back at all.

At the start of Fall 2020, the FYE folks had one or two socially distanced events on Memory Mall. My D and her roommates went to the “big” one and left before it was over because it was mostly different faculty members blathering about “unprecedented pandemic blah, blah, blah.”

UCF announced with great fanfare that there would be significant in-person classes starting Fall 2020. As soon as UCF made that announcement, the profs union filed a grievance.

The night before Fall registration opened, EVERY ONE of my D’s classes switched to online. Every single one.

She now has almost a full year completed at UCF, with two semesters ON campus. ZERO in-person classes so far.

Just this week, Student Government announced some limited, outdoor attempts to present scaled-down programs from the canceled Fall Homecoming Week. And they have also arranged “Universal Knights” for free admission to Universal on the Tuesday night during Spring Break.

But the UCF administration hasn’t done much at all.

UCF’s response to Covid has been very good in terms of testing, contact tracing, etc, but VERY poor in academics and student life. VERY poor.

And the profs are really “phoning it in” with the virtual classes – even the many good profs. Many are only teaching one class per week, instead of the normal three. They just post a video or powerpoint online. They assign homework instead of teaching.

Our daughter will not be attending Summer term, despite the fact that we have to pay $2,000+ for our dorm (Towers, annual contract), unless she is able to actually GET a real in-person class.

We are hoping things will be better for Fall 2021 – but that fake orientation really makes me wonder.

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