<p>What’s social life like for those who aren’t partyers or drinkers whatsoever? Are there plenty of social outings and parties that don’t revolve around drinking and such? Is it hard to fit in if you aren’t into those activities?</p>
<p>What were your favorite dorms to stay in and which would you recommend to a freshman?</p>
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<p>There’s plenty to do on and off-campus for students that don’t drink or party. I didn’t party at all my freshman year of undergrad and met many people with similar interests. You will too. Believe or not, kids DO have get togethers where no drinking is involved.</p>
<p>I touched on some activities available in a previous post. To recapitulate: there’s school events (plays, concerts, Gator Nights at the Reitz) and many clubs to join, live music every week at downtown venues (1982, Tim & Terry’s, etc.), plenty of outdoor activities (the springs & rivers, Paynes Praire, Ocala National forest), movie complexes, the Oaks mall, etc. The best way to meet new people is to join a few clubs of interest and just strike up a conversation with your fellow peers! </p>
<p>Since I was in the honors program, I stayed in Hume which I loved. My other favorite dorms are Murphree, Sledd and Fletcher. Most people in those dorms room in a double with a door dividing the two rooms – so you have your own space. In the Murphree area dorms, you only have to share a bathroom with only 6-8 people (as compared to dorms in the Broward area that place 20-25 people to a bathroom). Lakeside, Keys and Springs are also nice but tend to be hard to get into.</p>
<p>What are your favorite and least favorite things about the Honors college? Did it really change your experience as a gator compared to non-honors students around you? </p>
<p>Thanks again for answering all of our questions. Very insightful and appreciated. :)</p>
<p>What floor are the laundry facilities on in the residence halls (Trusler)?</p>
<p>Could I get from Carleton Auditorium to Weimer Hall in 15 minutes (between classes) by walking? More specifically, is there a pathway/shortcut between Turlington Hall and the Computer Sciences/Engineering building? I can’t really tell from google maps and I’m not in Gainesville at the moment to check…</p>
<p>Also, do you know how much it costs to stay in intersession housing between Fall and Spring, Spring and Summer, Summer and Fall if I have nowhere to go/return?</p>
<p>P.S. thanks for making this thread.</p>
<p>Thanks for making this thread you rock! Chance me please?
4.7 weighted gpa, 3.9 unweighted (5 ap classes taken so far)
27 act
vice pres, pres and captain of clubs/societies and tennis
7 ap’s for senior year
300+ volunteer hrs</p>
<p>thanks for your quick response. Based off your experinces in admissions in regards to the resume section is it appropriate to put additonal activites and extra curriculars in the “additional information to consider” section?</p>
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Can you tell us which residence halls you’ve lived in and give a short review? Thanks :)</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the response! Can you tell us about any experience you have with internships or jobs? Gainesville sounds like it fits my personality but I’m worried about a lack of opportunities compared to somewhere like UCF or FSU.</p>
<p>Wow, I wrote this incredibly long post only to get kicked off the server. I’ll get to everyone’s questions in a bit but first I wanted to clarify something: </p>
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<p>I gave you an out of date answer from a different calendar year. Once you’ve submitted your application and sent out relevant documentation, including your scores, the UF website (log in with your gatorlink) will list whether said documents have been processed and received. If they haven’t been received after a few weeks, call admissions. </p>
<p>Still, the only screen shot I can show you is mine. So if you want to see ISIS, let me know. lol. </p>
<p>Anyway, sorry about all that. Generally when I’m sitting on committee, I have others to confer with about our policies. This bugged the crap out of me so much, though, that I called a friend/colleage to get my answer straight. Hope this helps! </p>
<p>I appreciate the "thank you"s from everyone!</p>
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<p>My favorite things about the honors program: first pick of courses, as well as access to interesting seminar type courses and smaller lower division class sizes (which in turn eased the transition into college life, helped me get to know other students), living in Hume and the amazing advising we received. My least favorite things: Having to complete a thesis (though I’m grateful now as it prepared me for grad school!) and the mandatory 15 credit hour per semester. I would’ve loved to drop down to 12 credits the semester I was doing an internship, research and working. </p>
<p>Having said all that, I really don’t think my undergraduate experience was much different than my non-honor friends. You can get great professors outside of honors, still stay in a nice dorm (yes, nice dorms at UF exist) and still graduate with honors without being in the honors program. </p>
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<p>Yes, you can definitely get from Carelton to Weimer in 15 minutes or under. The route is very straightforward. There’s actually a main walkway between the CSE building and Turlington, where you’ll pass hundreds of other students changing classes. Check out the campus map feature online. There’s a link on the main webpage. </p>
<p>I’m not sure how much they charge for the intersession. I think they might not charge anything at all, honestly.</p>
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<p>Go for it! Plenty of students will put additional achievements in that section. It also tends to be for addendums/extenuating circumstances, but if you feel it’s worthy of consideration, put it down. </p>
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<p>Sure. Please keep in mind that I’m perfectly happy anywhere as long as I have a pillow…</p>
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<p>Hume- Hume was awesome! It’s really new and it shows. I lived in a double suite which had its own bathroom (very convenient). It felt more apartment-like, since we didn’t have to split facilities with 20-25 other students, but not isolated because of the floor lounges. The rooms were a bit more spacious than the ones in older dorms. The common building had a TV, areas for studying & advising and a recreational room. I met a lot of friends playing ping pong (not sure if they still have it?) and watching TV shows. Hume was (is) also freakishly clean. The location is aces, too-- right across from the Reitz, not too far from the Hub. </p>
<p>Mallory- Mallory is an older building and it felt like it. One of the downsides was having only 2 bathrooms to 40-50 people. We always had to lug our shampoo, etc. down the hall and wear flip flops in the shower. But you get used to that stuff, believe it or not. Mallory (and Yulee/Reid which are the adjoined halls) had a more party hearty vibe than Hume though that’s easy to ignore (I admit I had an awesome roomie…). The amenities weren’t as nice as they were in Hume but there was still a common room downstairs with a TV and some tables to study at. Location isn’t the best. It’s a pretty decent walk to the Reitz/main campus though it is right next to Broward dining. I know Mallory/Yulee/Reid underwent some heavy duty renovations, so they might be completely different now…</p>
<p>Honorable mention to Murphree (I had an ex that lived there): The Murphree area is awesome. Each building only houses like 18-24 students with 6-8 on each floor. My ex had a double with a door dividing both rooms- it offered privacy but also the chance for her to get close to her roommate. Everyone was pretty tight knit in that building, in fact. Location is the best on campus, in my opinion- right on university, across from the bars and restaurants in mid-town. Close to all the main halls, too. Wish I could’ve lived there!</p>
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<p>Now, it’s your call whether you want to live in an urban/suburban environment or a college town. Personally, I never knew anyone with issues finding internships or employment.</p>
<p>Most people complete internships during the summer, so it generally doesn’t matter if you’re in a city or not. I did a co-op with IBM over a summer which eventually turned into a job where they let me work remotely from Gainesville. I also worked on-campus. Remember, Gainesville is ~80% college kids and, thus, most local jobs go to…college kids. If you want to work for a Fortune 500 or under a senator in Tally during a Fall or Spring, you can receive credit while you’re gone via the internship program. When you enroll, you’ll be added to a listserv for your major and be spammed with employment and internship opportunities. </p>
<p>Ultimately you do have to be comfortable with where you’ll be spending the next 4 years of your life. However, I wouldn’t include employment in that evaluation.</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions but I was wondering how similar the ISOM major in Warrington is to computer science? I want to go into finance but I have an interest in info systems and software, too. I don’t think I can handle writing a lot of code or programming.</p>
<p>Do you know how hard it is to find a job for Work Study? Is there a certain time when they upload jobs, because when I go on there the “Job Open Dates” have already passed? </p>
<p>Also, how hard is Human Growth and Development with Useche,Ana C , and MAC1147 with Huang, Jen? On Rate my proffesor, people seem to give the teachers terrible reviews. I took Pre-Cal and Trig in highschool and aced it, but they say it’s on a totally different level. Although I’m pretty good at math.
Do they allow you to take Begining French 1, even though you have no background of taking a french class? I’m enrolled in it, but I don’t want to get kicked out the first day because of it. </p>
<p>I’m taking 14 credits this fall, is that to much for a freshman? Although the courses seem pretty easy, its MAC1147, EDF 3110, FRE1130, and CHM1025 (which is online).</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions, thank you!</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a prospective undergraduate and I am very interested in majoring in Computer Science at UF, can you give me some more information about the program in general? Suggestions for the major? Did you have a lot of prior programming experience before hand? and What is your opinion of housing at Beaty Towers? </p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
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<p>First- if you’re not into writing code or programming, I would recommend not majoring in computer science. Computer science stems more from science/math and ISOM can be thought of as the business side of CS. ISOM is a major in Warrington so you’ll be required to take all the pre-professional business courses. CS focuses on software engineering principles, learning and applying an array of programming languages, data structures and algorithms. ISOM requires JAVA but far less programming language than CS. In ISOM you’ll learn more about data management, network analysis & security, operation of production systems in respect to business, project management, etc. There’s some overlap in courses required and other electives, though. Those are just generalizations, mind you. </p>
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<p>FWS jobs are aplenty on-campus and students in the program get first pick. On the jobs.ufl.edu database, the column that indicates “Job Open Dates” is simply the date you can begin to send in a resume and application. There’s also a deadline date listed, as well. I see a bunch of FWS jobs opened on 7/29. </p>
<p>I think 14 credits is great for your first semester. French will be intensive. If you excel in math and science, you should do fine in MAC1147 and CHM1025.</p>
<p>I never took MAC1147 and I’m not familiar with the professors you’ve listed. The people I know who took that class, and who were pretty good at math, did well with studying. Others felt it was a weed out course. This was back in 2005-2006 however. </p>
<p>Keep checking ISIS for additional sections of MAC1147 with a different instructor. </p>
<p>Sorry I can’t be of more help with your questions!</p>
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<p>Is there anything more specific you’d like to know about the CS program? I could write a novel on the program without being given more defined questions…</p>
<p>As for programming experience, I didn’t have a hell of a lot coming into undergrad. I liked building websites and thus knew HTML. I taught myself JAVA around sophomore year of high school. That’s about it. I liked math and computers. I didn’t really think through the decision of declaring CS as my major, honestly. </p>
<p>I liked Beaty Towers. A few of my friends lived in a suite with two doubles, a kitchenette and a bathroom, which I think most people prefer to sharing amenities with a whole floor. The building is older but the dorms I saw were always pretty clean and, at the time at least, under went yearly touchups. The food market is probably the greatest thing about Beaty. I don’t think there was much camaraderie amongst floor mates because of the size of the towers. The walk to main campus was a bit of pain but not so much that I would’ve passed up living there. </p>
<p>I hope my responses are somewhat helpful to everyone!</p>
<p>Hello, I’m a rising senior who is anxious about getting into UF. I currently have a 1980 SAT score with a 2040 super-scored. I want to do Biological Engineering, but I heard that engineering is harder to get into than another major, like Chemistry. Is this true? Because if so, I was thinking that maybe I could apply for Chemistry and then switch majors? </p>
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<p>710 Math
690 Reading
580 Writing </p>
<p>Super-scored:</p>
<p>710 Math
690 Reading
640 Writing</p>
<p>My ACT score is a 30. Should I submit that instead?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions. I appreciate the help. Thank you!</p>
<p>If I may ask, what other colleges were you looking into (or accepted to), and why did you ultimately choose UF?</p>
<p>How much does UF factor in the ACT compared with all other factors? Also, I read that the “top 5% of the class of Florida high school students” get priority consideration for admission for UF, is this true? Thanks!</p>
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<p>Relax! Your scores are great. The ACT & SAT scores are approx. the same when converted and we do not give preference to either test. I would recommend you submit the score(s) you feel most confident with. </p>
<p>Go ahead and declare whatever you’d like. Freshman admissions are not evaluated by the individual colleges. Here’s some information about the [BME</a> program](<a href=“http://www.bme.ufl.edu/academics/undergraduate]BME”>Undergraduate Admissions – J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering). </p>
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<p>I applied to UF, FSU, UCF, USF, New College of FL, UC Boulder, Penn State and Penn- all of which I was accepted to. I didn’t receive enough aid from the OOS schools and ultimately didn’t want to accrue debt for an undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>Aside from the financial aspect, I just really wanted to live in a college town/get the full “college experience” and thus NCF, USF and UCF didn’t appeal to me as much as the FL flagships. I liked the campuses, atmosphere and feeling of immense school spirit at both FSU and UF. </p>
<p>However, Florida offered stronger programs in my areas of interest and more opportunities for research in said areas. The CISE facilities were (and are) top-notch. An additional perk was the distance from home. At UF I was two hours away – far enough to be independent, close enough to visit easily. </p>
<p>UF was overall a great fit-- financially, academically and socially. </p>
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<p>Test scores and GPA are heavily weighted in the decision-making process though applications are reviewed holistically. Students in the top 5% of their class do not receive any sort of priority consideration though having a high ranking is certainly an asset. </p>
<p>Please keep in the mind that while I’m happy to “chance” posters and give recommendations, I can’t guarantee admission or anything. And a word to the wise, kids: when you work a full-time, 9-5 job, try to get to bed far before 3 AM!</p>
<p>RE regsitration priority for Spring Semester: The UF website says, “During the first three weeks of advance registration, priority is given to … students based on credit hours, with earlier times assigned to students with greater credit hours.” But I couldn’t find anything estabilshing the threshold number of hours for various levels of regsitration priority. I’m entering UF w/ 55 credits (via AP and DE), and I’m taking 12 credits this Fall. Can you offer any insight as to where my registration priority will be for Spring Semester?</p>