<p>Hello everyone, I do believe this is my first post here.</p>
<p>I am a senior living in western PA and have been looking for about a month or so for what I hope will be my perfect college experience.</p>
<p>Since about the new year, I have had a veryyyy stroooong interest in moving away from home and immersing myself in a whole new place to study.</p>
<p>Thus far, I have looked at schools mostly in Arizona and Florida.</p>
<p>I've been accepted to Arizona State and am waiting for replies from U of Tampa and U of Florida.</p>
<p>The thing is, so many of the schools I have been looking at in Florida have a surprisingly large number of students who commute!! Around 75-90%??</p>
<p>I want a college where I can blend quickly with other students who are looking for the same as I am. A school that will give me the strongest education, and will prepare me for a new future.</p>
<p>I am planning to major in finance.</p>
<p>3.0gpa CR-540 M-640 W-610</p>
<p>I have also been very active in sports, clubs, and have tried to grasp the few extracurricular activities my school offered.</p>
<p>Please someone help me out. I appreciate your response.</p>
<p>I would take a look at the following schools:</p>
<p>West Virginia University--although it has a low percentage of students living on-campus, freshman are required to live on campus and most students live in apartments close to the school, not at home with their parents. The school has great athletics and school spirit and lots of good academic programs.</p>
<p>Keene State College-- a much smaller school than West Virginia, it is very pretty and the students really enjoy their time there.</p>
<p>Southern New Hampshire College--nice New England school, more expensive than the first two</p>
<p>Sacred Heart--it's a Catholic school--I don't know if that is something you'd be interested in.</p>
<p>High Point University--up and coming school in North Carolina. Over 60% of the students are from out-of-state, so you wouldn't feel out of place</p>
<p>Stetson University--small Florida school, pretty, excellent academics. It might be a bit of a reach, but your board scores are good. </p>
<p>In addition, you could look into the following:</p>
<p>Western Washington
Guilford--the deadline is 2/15 so you don't have much time</p>
<p>I think that all of these schools are still accepting applications, but you'd have to check. Also, some of them might not have much of a business program--I didn't check.</p>
<p>At UF, not many people that aren't freshmen live on campus, unless you count sorority and fraternity houses. However, most kids aren't residents of Gainesville; they live in off-campus apartments and houses.</p>
<p>edit because it didn't let me finish my post:</p>
<p>I assume this is similar to situations at many large state schools, and large schools in general.</p>
<p>ASU is very student oriented and most freshman live on campus in the dorms. Plus they have a very active Greek life and they are a Pac 10 school so sports is a big part of the action at school. A lot of school spirit.</p>
<p>In response to Midatlmom: thank you for the small write up. Stetson is a bitt too expensive for me from what I have read :/</p>
<p>I would really prefer to be more than 5 hours away from home, with the farther south or west the better. I'm going to continue to do research and see what my options are before app deadlines</p>
<p>University of Arkansas
University of Alabama
Auburn
University of Utah
Birmingham-Southern
Queens University of Charlotte (75% female--don't know if that's an issue)</p>