<p>I know FSU has an ADA accredited Didactic Dietetics Program, so I have a couple questions:</p>
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<li><p>These programs offer no ranking, but perhaps you can tell me how you would rate this program (or any opinions on how good it is).</p></li>
<li><p>Does Tally offer good employment opportunities for Food and Nutrition (Dietetics) Majors (not talking about the required Intership)? For example: hospitals (I'd like to work with children in this case), schools, so on. </p></li>
<li><p>How challenging are the classes (including the prereq)? Have you taken them? Are the teachers good? </p></li>
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<li>Dietetics interships are a little difficult to get, would you consider a Food and Nutrition (Dietetics) major from from FSU to be competitive enough?</li>
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<p>This is one of the schools I'm considering, and even though I'm a OOS living abroad I have the possibility to attend FSU at instate tuition rate (only FSU, no other FL universities). </p>
<p>**Would you consider attending FSU a good bargain? (Good education at good price?)</p>
<p>I can’t answer any of your question about the dietetics program, but as far as “is attending FSU a good bargain”, US News ranked FSU as the 4th best value public university.</p>
<p>@matt: well this is great news of course. Thank you</p>
<p>@350: which courses did you take? what’s your major, is it in a related field? in spite of being challenging did you like the class, professor, topics?</p>
<p>I took many of the same classes as you would at FSU as an Exercise Physiology Major… Metabolism I andII, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Biochem, ect. and I love all the classes. None of them had more than 100 students in them except chemistries and the teachers were more than willig to help with anything we needed. hope this helped you out.</p>
<p>D2 recently graduated with her BS in Dietetics from FSU. It is an excellent program. You may opt for the rigor of the science classes (chem for chem majors, etc) or take the survey classes in some areas. D2 took the rigorous classes and did not regret it, though she had to work much harder for her grades.</p>
<p>She wound up earning the Glenn Society award, which is granted to about 1% of the undergrads and grads of the College of Human Sciences.</p>
<p>Internships are competitive, but FSU does a good job preparing you for the competition.</p>
<p>I realize this is an old thread…but parent2noles-just wondering if you could tell me how your daughter’s dietetics class fared in obtaining internships? I see the national rate is about 50%. That’s a little nerve racking. I looked on the eatright.org site at the schools that offered the BS coordinated program thinking that avenue would take out some of the uncertainty. For the southern east coast it listed FIU and Kaiser as options along with some other schools my daughter would really not be interested in. In your (or your daughter’s experience) was it worth taking a chance entering a didactic program at a school she really wanted to attend? Any insight or updates on her situation would be appreciated!</p>
<p>It is an effort, but I recall my daughter had two choices - stay at FSU for an internship and her masters degree or go out and find a job. She elected to find a job, which took some effort in this market, but she landed a slot. (Then she left that job to get married, but that’s another story…now she’s again looking at grad school. )</p>
<p>I’d suggest staying and getting the masters and doing the internship in one fell swoop.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice-D is in HS exploring career options and thought dietetics was a good match for her. I did see a combined master’s/internship option at some schools she would be interested in. Just nervous about sending her thru 4 yr BS program only to be one of the 50% not admitted to an internship or masters/internship combined program. </p>
<p>It seems like the admit procedure for many health occupations (like PT and OT) are competitive and also require more education (like MOT and DPT) to even enter the field nowadays. Dietetics looks like it pays less and may be fewer job opportunities than other health care jobs but D likes the sound of it better than other fields. My brother and his wife are PT’s so I am going to let her shadow them and try to have her shadow an OT they know. Maybe I can even find a dietition that would let her shadow for a day.</p>
<p>Is your D looking to get her masters in the field? Best of luck to her!</p>
<p>As I recall, you basically need a masters to be a practicing RD. At FSU they have a very convenient (yes, competitive) program for this, but by the time D2 graduated she wanted a break from school, despite having a near-lock on grad school acceptance in dietetics.</p>
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