<p>My daughter found out today that she was not accepted to UF’s engineering program. She has been accepted to Alabama and suddenly she’s far more interested in attending school there. She’s enrolled in the Florida Prepaid Tuition program and has earned 100% Florida Bright Futures Scholarship. I’ve searched the Alabama website but cannot my questions answered. Seems like a long time until I can call on Monday. Does anyone happen to know if Alabama accepts the Florida Bright Futures scholarship? That would at least make a dent in the cost of tuition. Also, I gather that the engineering program there is pretty good. Any help/thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>You can use Florida prepaid out of state, but I think it is only 75%. Bright Futures is only good in the state of Florida. Have you thought of UCF?</p>
<p>Unfortunately UCF does not have a Chemical Engineering program. Oddly, as they have quite a few engineering majors. She really wants chemical/biomedical which is a tough program to find. FSU does have it as an undergraduate degree but not sure how good FSU really is for engineering. At UF, she would have majored in Chem E then gone on to master in Biomedical. Alabama doesn't have Biomedical either so she'd go straight Chemical and decide how to handle it later - masters or not. 75% of prepaid - I'm guessing that isn't actually 75% of the out of state tuition costs? That would be too good to be true.</p>
<p>Don't forget to check out USF. Not sure how strong its programs are, but USF does offer chemical/biomedical engineering degrees and USF has an established medical college.</p>
<p>I think it is 75% of what they would pay out in the state of Florida, but I am not positive of this so don't quote me. I am positive that bright futures can't be used out of state.</p>
<p>I don't think you can use FBF out of state.
Florida prepaid , yes but FBF , no.</p>