<p>Hi! Hopefully this will be answered by current students, but musings from applicants are good. What is the FAU campus like? Is it very safe? I've watched the video, but was wondering what the "real life" version is. </p>
<p>On a separate note, is anyone involved or accepted into the Harriet Wilkes Honors College? What has your experience been?</p>
<p>Lastly, does anyone know when scholarships are given? Perhaps just on a rolling basis.</p>
<p>Thank you very much. :)</p>
<p>Are you interested in knowing what the Boca campus is like or just the Jupiter campus? </p>
<p>I ask because I can tell you plenty about the former but almost nothing about the latter.</p>
<p>Yes, I’d be very interested in knowing about the Boca campus. Cleanliness, safety, etc. Thank you!</p>
<p>Honestly, the Boca campus is very clean. Boca Raton has pretty staunch aesthetic standards so everything’s well-groomed and maintained. There’s no graffiti, no garbage on the grass, etc. This is certainly not an “inner city” type of campus. Pastel-colored buildings, palm trees, and so forth.</p>
<p>Safety - in seven years of going there, I not only never had a problem (I used to walk around campus at midnight) but I also never heard of anybody having a problem either. None of my friends were ever mugged, followed my unscrupulous characters, our cars were never keyed, etc. Furthermore, Boca doesn’t have bums. There’s no riff-raff coming onto campus. It’s only students and staff. The worst thing I hear about is every once in a while someone’s bike gets stolen. There literally is next to no crime here. Ever. And that was a huge deal for me so I’m glad it turned out to be true at FAU.</p>
<p>Most of the campus life during the day occurs in the gym (working out, playing basketball, swimming in the pool) or in the Breezeway (the long hallway that connects many multipurpose academic buildings). During the day there are clubs tabling, speakers on social issues, students having lunch, people skateboarding and playing hackey-sack, etc. </p>
<p>After about 5 pm, most of the “action” is either in the Student Union, the Burrow (basketball arena) or the housing quads. Lots of people milling about, hanging out, playing volleyball, ultimate frisbee, etc. Intramurals/club sports are getting big here. I was in a club, played ultimate frisbee on Monday nights and then kickball off-campus at a boca park on Friday nights.</p>
<p>New developments including an independent movie theater and a football stadium on campus. Greek Housing is in the works but isn’t here yet. Still, I think they’re approaching 30 Greek organizations active on campus now. For them, Greek Week is huge. They have a talent show, sports competitions, an A-frame competition, the works.</p>
<p>Regarding scholarships, I had the Bright Futures Scholarship. Basically I worked it out with the Financial Aid Office so they knew it would be distributed to them. If not, I assume I would have had to fill out a FAFSA form (Federal Application for Student Aid) and they’d send me information as to what I qualified for (Grants, loans, etc). I believe scholarships you have to apply for separately on their respective websites.</p>
<p>Sorry for the late reply, but thank you so much! This is incredibly beneficial; it sounds like you had an amazing time here and that is contagious! :)</p>