<p>I have been on all the websites for florida colleges, and they all seem fine on the surface, but once I started to read reviews, all of them were bad. I realize that most of the people who write reviews are going to be people who are angry or frustrated with the college, so can someone please give me the run down of the florida colleges, based on things you have heard, or research when deciding where to go to school? By the way, I want to either major in Chemistry or Mathematics. Thank you in advance.</p>
<p>UF, FIT, Miami, NCF, and Embry-Riddle are good schools. Don’t put a lot of weight on college reviews as you have no idea who wrote them, nor what their intentions were. Instead, look at which companies recruit from the schools you are interested in. That will give you a more realistic picture of what employers think of those schools.</p>
<p>For Chemistry and Mathematics, UF is probably your best choice.</p>
<p>My son just started at New College, and he loves it. They don’t have the extensive facilities that UF has, but they have a lot of exciting opportunities for independent study and individual research projects. If you want a small, quirky, cerebral, liberal arts college, and you don’t care about football and Greek Life, then NCF is a treasure. We are from out-of-state, and we’re paying less (with no need-based aid) than we would at our own public colleges.</p>
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<p>WHAT!!! Sacrilege! 
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<p>Check out the “Florida” forum. You’re find several threads that discuss and compare the Florida schools. Also, several of the schools have active CC forums (FSU, USF, UCF, and UF), so they are worth checking out. </p>
<p>Good Luck! </p>
<p>NCF and FAU’s Wilkes College would be great for students who don’t care about football (there have to be some in Florida, and they must feel lonely, so that a few hundreds of fellow non-enthusiasts may seem like a breath of fresh air.) NCF’s personalized major system would be perfect for a self-motivated student who plans on going to grad school in math, for instance. However, it wouldn’t work for a “traditional” student.
In addition, it depends how advanced at math you are and what math you want to do (research, teaching, applied, //CS…?)</p>
<p>My son is a math major at FSU and has been pretty happy with the program and the support he’s received from his professors. And by the way he does not like football at all, doesn’t belong to a fraternity and doesn’t party 24/7. And he’s not alone! There are all kinds of students at big football flagships, don’t get swayed by labels. </p>
<p>He looked at New College when he was deciding where to attend but ultimately decided against it because he was very advanced in math and needed the availability of graduate level courses. He didn’t look at Umiami due to cost. He decided against UF partly due to the difficulties of dealing with the admin staff during the application process. He didn’t want 4 more years of that hassle.</p>