FSU or UCF for Premed undergrad

<p>should i go to FSU or UCF for my undergrad?</p>

<p>My daughter is in the same boat. She is currently a senior in high school and has received her admission letter from UCF. We are waiting until December 8th to get news from FSU and for her to make up her mind.
She wants to go pre-med but may get her BS in nursing then do medical school. This way in the meantime she has something to fall back on.
She has a 4.73 GPA, 30 on her ACT and is ranked #1 in her class which would qualify her for the honors program at FSU.
I also need input.
Which school is the safest?
She is very small and innocent. We want her to stay safe while she reaches for the stars…
Last but not least, she is the daughter of a disabled OEF vet. We hope she will get a scholarship from the VA in addition to the Florida’s bright future scholarship.
Info and input will be greatly appreciated…</p>

<p>I am also disabled AF vet, thank her father for his service. She should qualify for benefits similar to Bright Futures.
I got some good info on another post. Here are some: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/florida-state-university/1001489-fsu-ucf-premed-undergrad.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/florida-state-university/1001489-fsu-ucf-premed-undergrad.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>As far as safest. I visited Tallahassee in August and was not too impressed with the surrounding area. I’ve heard it isn’t bad on campus, but while i was there i saw some homeless people directly across from the hotel i stayed in right off campus. I really enjoyed the atmosphere on campus though. Everyone was very friendly and gave me that southern comfort feeling. Very different from UCF and UF, where students seemed to be a bit more selfish… I think UCF is a bit more safer in my opinion, the area around UCF is much better, i live in Orlando and am quite familiar with the area. But everyone i talked to from FSU ensure me that it is very safe, especially on campus.
The Burnett Honors College at UCF, i’ve been told, is a very good honors program. But at FSU they have Phi Beta Kappa, which is a nationally renown Honor Society.</p>

<p>Thank you:) She has only put applications for 3 colleges and so far received admission to 2. However she is set on FSU and we have to wait til the 8th of december which will also be her bday. NO excitment when she received admission to JU along with a 13000 per year scholarship offer.</p>

<p>By the way, I graduated from UF many years ago. She refused to put in her application. She thinks FSU has character and she just fell in love with the place. I have never seen it so we will drive up on the 22.</p>

<p>1) Neither school has a leg up on the other so much so that medical school considerations should have ANY impact on the decision.</p>

<p>2) Students should go to the school where they have the best fit academically, socially, emotionally and physically. Happy students are thriving students, not the other way around. </p>

<p>3) Going to nursing school and then trying for med school is not a good choice. There is only minimal crossover of pre-reqs, and the later years of nursing school preclude the overwhelming majority students from working on the upper level courses, like biochem and genetics, that a number of medical schools are beginning to require. The clinicals in nursing school are very time consuming. Given the current critical shortage of nurses, many medical school adcoms are reluctant to accept a newly minted nurse. Further, your daughter would be taking a spot in nursing school from someone who actually really wants to be a nurse. Certainly she should pursue what she wishes, but she would be best served by pursuing an academic (non-vocational) major.</p>