<p>I am applying to all the Florida Schools, but don't want to waste my time on a "commter school". I know South Florida has a lot of students living on campus, but it is what I call a "commuter school." My question is with Univ of Central Florida. Can anyone tell me if that is a "commuter school", too?</p>
<p>By "commuter school", I mean a school where all the kids stay directly on campus at night and specifically on weekends, they don't travel elsewhere, go home, etc. University of Florida and Florida State are the types of school atmospheres I am looking for.</p>
<p>UCF is located in a very populated area along the I-4 corridor. As such there are many commuters to the school and kids do go home for the weekend. However many kids are off campus and others on campus in student housing that hang in for the weekend. My D tells me that many kids do leave for the weekend, but there are still many around. With the proximetery to Orlando there is plenty to do.</p>
<p>I don't think you would find UF, FSU and USF much different in this respect.</p>
<p>Florida is a large population state and many kids don't live that far away. Unless you go to somewhere like the University of Vermont, Colorado State, Dartmouth, U Conn or Rhode Island which are more rural campus you will always find a number of students doing the suitcase college thing.</p>
<p>Of all, FSU is probably the least like a commuter school since it is so far from population centers. Few students will drive 7 hours back to Miami for the weekend. After that, UF is least likely.</p>
<p>When the homework load is figured in, most serious kids don't have time.</p>
<p>We were at the game on Saturday. Sure didn't seem like a commuter school while we were tailgating, or at the game itself...</p>
<p>I attended when it WAS a commuter school - only 400 on-campus students. It's over 6000 now. That's a lot of kids.... more than the entire enrollment of a small liberal arts college.</p>
<p>DS is there now, and is definitely NOT commuting. He's not even visiting grandma, who lives in town! Too busy with stuff on campus.</p>
<p>My S's the same. We live locally, and he lives on campus. Sure he pops in ocassionally, but it's really like he's gone to UF or something, in that there are days that we don't see him. All of his roommates stay, except for Labor Day ... when they drove home. But he doesn't feel at all as if the campus goes quiet. </p>