<p>Parent2noles It is obvious that you are a big FSU fan and that is fine, my sister went there and it is a great school but I don’t see why you feel the need to label UCF with false, derogative, myths because of it. I am currently a student at UCF and have visited both UF’s and FSU’s campus. While admittedly I am not up on my research on all the official “rankings” of the academic programs against other colleges (they seem like they would be rather arbitrary and more dependant on name recognition and prestige than anything, which themselves are not accurate predictors of quality) I can assure you that the traditional college experience is to be had at UCF’s main campus every bit as much as at FSU and UF. The main campus is modern, beautiful, compact, and well planned, much more so than UF and in my opinion more aesthetically pleasing than even FSU. It also bears little if any resemablance to a the commuter college it was some time in the past. UCF now has more campus affiliated housing than any other university in Florida and the newer dormitories are some of the nicest in Florida as well and have been compared to four star hotels. Almost every student I know at UCF is from a different part of the state and most are living in on campus housing or off campus housing, and I don’t know anyone that goes to the main campus that need to go to any of the regional campusus, those are mainly for transfer students from their respective community colleges. The vast majority of UCF’s population is on the main campus as well, over 40,000 students. Strictly speaking it is not in Orlando either it is slightly outside of the city limits on the eastern side, like a small town in and of itself with everything you need being in walking distance for students living in Academic Village or the Towers…</p>