FSU Honors or UF?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi everyone. I was recently accepted to both FSU Honors and UF. FSU offered me an initial partial scholarship but now that I was accepted to the honors program, I don’t know if that amount will increase. I am still waiting to hear on six other schools but they are all private and all out of state and without financial assistance I can’t afford any of them. Basically, I wanted to establish what my safety school in Florida would be before I have to face the other admissions decisions. I am an IB student with 32 ACT, a 5.3 weighted GPA, and I am in the top 1% of my class.

I want to know which school, FSU Honors or UF would be the best fit for me based on the following criteria

  • Rigor of courses
  • Career Opportunity
  • Location (I much rather prefer an urban area)
  • Educational community (Basically I want to be around people who are driven like me and who aren’t consistently side-lined by college party culture. I know you find your niche everywhere but I want to know where I am more likely to find people like me)
  • Study abroad opportunity
  • Housing

The other schools I applied to rank a lot higher than both FSU and UF and are smaller and more rigorous.However, I’m trying to be realistic financially. So essentially I want to know which school will give me a similar feel to what I want out of state.

Thanks everyone!

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Hi, I don’t know where you live in Florida or if you’ve been to Gainesville/Tallahassee for significant amounts of time, but I’ve lived in Gainesville my whole life and have a pretty good feel for the UF experience, and I can tell you that Gainesville is definitely not particularly urban. As for the other things, I don’t think there will be any shortage of people who are driven and academic at UF, however, there are definitely lots of party kids too. UF is a higher ranked school than FSU overall. Did you apply to the Honors College at UF?