<p>Florida State University is my dream school and the only one I really want to go to. To better my chances of getting accepted, I was going to apply to the summer term. I graduate high school in May 2015.</p>
<p>What is a summer term like? What does it consist of and lack, compared to a fall term? (Are there no exams?) And it's correct that applying for a summer term means you're going for the summer AND fall? Any extra info would be great!</p>
<p>Well attending during the summer will help you avoid being a lost freshmen like everybody else during the fall </p>
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Don’t do this. I’m not sure whether it’s that FSU doesn’t tell prospective applicants this or what, but a lot of people apply for summer thinking it increases their chances. In reality, applying for summer actually can DECREASE your chances.
When you apply for fall, if you would otherwise be rejected for fall, FSU will automatically consider your application for summer. They do not do the reverse for summer applicants. Therefore, fall applicants can actually receive two admission chances, whereas summer applicants only receive one. </p>
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The summer term that freshmen start in is a 6 week, very condensed semester. You’ll have classes that either meet more frequently or last longer than they normally would so that all of the material typically taught in a regular fall/spring semester that’s 15 weeks long can still be taught.
Summer is often very dead on campus. A vast majority of the students on campus do not take summer classes on campus. Tallahassee almost seems like a ghost town.
That does however mean that you will have an advantage over your fellow incoming freshmen because you’ll have 6 weeks to learn the campus. Personally, I don’t see that as a huge advantage, because from what I have seen you will either pick up on where things are located pretty quickly anyway, or you likely won’t really ever learn where a lot of the different buildings on campus are. </p>
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The classes teach the same material as the fall and spring term. It’s just condensed into 6 weeks, so whereas in the fall you might have a T/R class, in the summer C session it’ll likely be a M/T/W/R class or instead of an hour it’ll be 2 hours long. You will either have less time between each class to absorb the previous class’s information or you’ll have more information to absorb between classes.
If you start in the summer, odds are great that you will start in English Comp I and 1 other class, and that will be all that your advisor will approve.
And finally, yes, if you are accepted for summer, you attend for the fall. </p>