<p>I don't want to be in the Honor program now so i won't be living in the HUME which i heard is the best place to live on campus. Beside the Hume which Hall is the most decent?</p>
<p>Well my sister a graduate from UF told me to choose Murphy as my first choice because they will be having air conditioning for the 2005/2006 fall term! For my second and third choices were Fletcher and Sledd.</p>
<p>I'm hoping to get Murphy though because I've been there, and I like how it is set up and the room space I'll have.</p>
<p>Beaty Towers is my top priority, because of the apartment style rooms. You and 3 suite mates have a bathroom and a kitchen. I like that a lot better than a double, with community bathrooms and kitchens.</p>
<p>why would you not want to be in honors? its one class per semester which you would have to take anyway, only that in honors the class is much smaller.</p>
<p>Yeah, the honors classes are a lot easier too. You are pretty much guaranteed to get an A or B+.</p>
<p>does honors help fro grad school? all i'm getting is an AA in honors or high honors... and then it ends.</p>
<p>do we move dorms after the honors program ends at the end of the sophomore year?</p>
<p>Uh, what are you talking about? The honors program doesn't give you an AA (you get that if you go to a two-year college) and it has nothing to do with graduating with honors or high honors (that is determined by your individual college and it is usually based on your GPA and writing a thesis or completing a final project).</p>
<p>As for helping with graduate school, I suppose the boost it gives to your GPA (since the honors classes are grade-inflated) would help out.</p>
<p>You have to reapply to a lottery to get into the honors dorm for each year. You have to be in the honors program to live there, so it is impossible to live there after your sophomore year unless you are an RA. However, most people move out after their freshman year. I'd say that, not including the RA's, less than 5% of the residents are sophomores.</p>
<p>I applied for housing about 3-4 weeks ago.. when are u supposed to get a reply? Do u think i have a chance to get on-campus housing if i sent in the deposit 3-4 weeks ago? Alsooo.. do they ever send you anything asking you your first choice dorm or anything?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I applied for housing a while ago and they did send an application for you to fill out your 3 choices. I think we are suppose to find out something in June. I'm going call them up later and ask them what's going on with the dorm situation, for ex. if it's a first come first serve type of thing and also when do we find out if we got into our first dorm choice.</p>
<p>I think they send you which dorm or area you're in sometime (in late July?) and they send the actual room/roommate assignment in early August.</p>
<p>My understanding is that your priority is determined by the date you send your $25 deposit in. Thus, if you applied for housing in the Fall, you are in much better shape than if you waited until April. While I'm not trying to be discouraging, I think it would definitely be wise to have an off-campus option if you sent your deposit in recently.</p>
<p>Hey people, I am in the honors program for UF c/o 09, but I chose not to live in Hume because alot of my friends who go to UF (not exactly the honors kids) said that Hume is not very social. Plus, by sheer probability, based on the type of kids who are probably going to make up the majority the honors program, i figured that with I would probably get a nerdy, weird roommate w/ random room assignments. I figure that being in the honors program and having the classes is enought without having to live w/ all the kids too. Not to mention, Hume is the most expensive dorm to live in, and other dorms, like springs, offer you a 4 bedroom apartment, with your own room and cost less</p>
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<p>Reason why i didn't enroll for honors is because i wasn't sure what i will be in for, i rather go and try to get in after the fall semester instead of going straight in and later decide to leave the program.</p>
<p>My son is living in Hume next year. He is definitely not nerdy. He is living there because he is from out of state, and alot of the kids in Hume are also out of state, whereas the other dorms are almost totally Florida kids. The guys he stayed with when he did his overnight were cool, but he said there were many nerdy kids. That's ok, he is used to it from the school he has been at. As a parent, I'm hoping that a studious environment will help him stay on the ball. I know he will be "social" no matter where he lives, I just hope he isn't TOO social!</p>
<p>My S got frozen out of the dorms. The agreement got lost in the mail, and we were not paying attention.</p>
<p>But we discovered that there are many very fine off-campus options. Essentially, private developers have picked up the ball where the University drops off. South of campus apartments are virtually an extension of the University residential system. Each student has their own bath and private bedroom, social activities are arranged, and the complexes are gated. </p>
<p>The center of campus is a 10 min bus ride away (15 min bike ride) or 1/2 hour walk. It's a little pricey (mid-$550s/month and up), but I think it will definitely provide a campus like environment, which was one of my big concerns. My other concern was that he live close to campus, and this does the trick.</p>
<p>The downside is that these apartments have a limited number of 9 month leases. Therefore, if you wait, you will be stuck with a 12 month lease. That would/could cost you an extra $1200.</p>
<p>Be careful to do a LOT of research on the off-campus options if you are a freshman coming to Gainesville for the first time - a lot of the apartment complexes look good on paper but are actually not that great.</p>