FSU Honors Housing and other random questions :)

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<p>Hi everyone!</p>

<p>So I just submitted my online housing application (and got a startlingly-scary high number closing in on 2,000!) and put down the two Honors - Landis and Gilchrist- as my first choices, since I got the e-mail that I got in! :) For third and fourth choices I put Broward and Degraff. Due to my crazy number, I'm not really expecting to have much luck with them..</p>

<p>I don't really know anything about the dorms, though. Are they socially involved? Nice distance from class? Food? Common areas to hang out/meet new buddies in?I plan on visiting for the first time in Feb.</p>

<p>Also, just any general info about the Honors program and biology department would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!! (:</p>

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<p>if you’re majoring in the sciences i would list salley, smith, rogers, or kellum as my choices. since you’re in honors i would list salley or kellum.</p>

<p>rush, rush, rush - that’s what i plan on doing for having a good time. the dorms i listed are also close to food. pick suite style double w/o bath for being social.</p>

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<p>Thank you! I’ll remember to go look at those when I visit. :)</p>

<p>How is FSU Greek life?</p>

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<p>No e-mail or call for Honors Acceptance. Hopefully they are still notifying students. Daughter was awarded the Freshman Scholarship of $9,600. Stats: 30ACT, 3.9 unweighted, 4.7 weighted. I thought that would be good enough for Honors…the scholarship was a nice unexpected surprise. I heard the appeal process is pretty easy.</p>

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<p>A 3.9uw/4.7w GPA is excellent. The 30 ACT is a puzzle, however. I am sure that GPA would qualify for Honors. I suggest calling Honors in a few days/week if no notification appears.</p>

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<p>Awesome hard working student year round. She put no effort into ACT prep and seemed content with 28, 29 and 30. Frustrating from a parents perspective. She only applied to FSU, LSU, UF and Bama. Bama and LSU offered her honors and money but she wants FSU or UF. I am military in New Orleans but a permanent legal Florida resident. Bright Futures, Prepaid and Freshman Scholarship make FSU the clear choice for dad.</p>

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<p>Outstanding, mworld!</p>

<p>I understand the testing issue. Whoever said parenting was easy?</p>

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<p>Just a head’s up about some of the dorms Jossie listed- If you want to live in Rogers, you are not supposed to apply for any other housing, since its application is separate from the others. There are also a very limited number of apartments in Rogers, and since it is shared between both Grad and Undergrad students, I honestly would bet that the odds of you getting an apartment would be almost 0. </p>

<p>Depending on what Biology classes you take, you will likely be spending a lot of time in the King building, which is located on the western edge of campus (quite literally). Wildwood, Salley, Smith, and Kellum are all located reasonably close to the King Building. </p>

<p>However, I just looked up the Bio classes for Spring just for an idea, and it looks like they’re located across a good portion of campus- from HCB, next to the union, to the Teaching Labs building (located between the union and the King Building, though much closer to the union), the Computer Sciences building, and the King building. </p>

<p>With that in mind, while the ones in the King building would be a bit of a walk, if you had Bio classes in HCB, you could easily get there quickly from any of the east-side dorms. I know that isn’t helpful, but since you put Landis, Gilchrist, and Broward as three of your options, I figured it would help you with the east side choices. DeGraff is probably the worst of your four choices location wise to where your classes probably will be, although it really is not too bad of a walk to HCB or the Labs building. </p>

<p>Honestly, since you’re visiting in February, I would highly suggest that you tour as many of the dorms as you want/can. You might be able to find a building that you love, and you might be able to find a couple that you just downright will not want to live in.</p>

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<p>@mworld: I had almost identical stats (.1 less on the GPA) and I got my honors invite + the scholarship. It may have to do with things outside of pure grades and scores (like I was a varsity athlete + captain + president of the largest club on campus) that are influencing it, but your daughter should definitely get an invite. I have friends in a similar situation that also got the scholarship and have better statistics than me that haven’t gotten their invite yet. If worse comes to worse, you have her appeal and she is in easily.</p>

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<p>I think you will probably get into Landis or Gilchrist. My priority number was 7500 coming in and I got into Gilchrist (only because I was in honors, I believe) this year. Gilchrist is NOT social at all. I like to go out and have a good time and my roommate stays in the room ALWAYS. I know my case is extreme, but I do know that people in Gilchrist overall are not that social within the hall. People are generally in their rooms or out of the dorm. I have some friends in Landis, and it is much more social than Gilchrist is. Even though community style dorms seem awful, I do recommend them for getting to know people.
Just for reference, I am an out of state student, which is much harder here than I thought it would be. People who went to school in Florida and have many friends here probably wouldn’t have such a hard time being in Gilchrist. Also, I am rushing in the Fall. If any of you have any questions about anything, I would love to try to answer them!</p>