Daughter says NO to UNC Chapel Hill and GO NOLES!

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<p>My husband attended FSU when our kids were little. My daughter actually started school in Tallahassee and is so happy to be returning.</p>

<p>We are a Navy family and have moved 13 times in the last 18 years. FSU was somewhere towards the beginning. We currently live just outside of Seattle, but we are being transferred to Tampa for my husband to work at Central Command at MacDill AFB.</p>

<p>Our daughter skipped her senior year of high school and went straight to college here in WA. She has almost completed her AA and only applied to 2 schools as a transfer student over the winter. FSU and UNC CH. She will be doing a double major in East Asian Studies and International Affairs and these schools seemed to have great programs for both.</p>

<p>She was happy to be accepted in state for FSU (- we never gave up our residency) and out of state at UNC CH. It took a few weeks for her to make her decision, but she finally settled on FSU just before our orientation in late May. </p>

<p>Obviously, UNC Chapel Hill has an amazing reputation and is a great school, but rankings aren't everything!</p>

<p>We had such a great time at the orientation! I only wish my husband could have been there to yell the fight song. He is currently somewhere under the ocean on a submarine...</p>

<p>Our major concern was her living situation. She was accepted as a transfer student and so only received notice in March. She took a while (argh) to actually put down her choices for housing which made her number upwards of 6000. HOWEVER, she still managed to snag a dorm room in Dorman hall which is just down the way from Bellamy building where most of her studies will be. </p>

<p>The school is so much bigger than I remember in the mid-90's. The addition of the medical school, revamping of many dorms and dining halls, and all the construction currently ongoing leads me to believe that UF and other area schools will have a hard time keeping up with FSU's progress.</p>

<p>All in all, we are SUPER happy with her choice and will be at every football home game (yay!) this year.</p>

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<p>Welcome back to the Tribe! :)</p>

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<p>Great News and we thank your Husband for his service.</p>

<p>BTW I had a fellow work associate who is a Air Force officer, he got called up for a year and was down in Tampa at central command. He said it was great duty and he enjoyed it.</p>

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<p>Hi Ray -
Thank you for that. We've only ever been stationed at Navy bases so this Air Force station is quite a departure for us. We are both from the Tampa area so it is like going home after many many years. I think my husband will be the "submarine liaison officer" whatever that means :-)</p>

<p>I just look forward to being close to our baby. Oh, and the games!!!</p>