<p>Last night, my s came home and mentioned this new web site his gc had told him about.</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - CollegeWeekLive, the Virtual College Fair](<a href=“http://collegeweeklive.com/]College”>http://collegeweeklive.com/)</p>
<p>essentially it is a virtual college fair. you create an account (for free) login and can have access to a myriad of colleges. The reason he told my son about it was that the site also offers live video chat sessions with actual students not affiliated with admissions departments at various schools. </p>
<p>there is a schedule of live chat’s for many schools. last night FSU had one at 8:30pm. We logged in and it was very interesting. You see the student via dtreaming video and can ask questions in real time and they try to answer them. This particular FSU student was terrific. She is in graduate school now (at FSU), but just finished up her undergraduate degree from there as well.</p>
<p>My son enjoyed it and kept typing questions in. not sure whuch schools are doing it tonite, but it is an interesting format to check out.</p>
<p>Here is a summary of some of her main points:</p>
<li>great variety of academic programs at FSU</li>
<li>Tons of activities for studebts</li>
<li>tremendous school spirit</li>
<li>Good professors</li>
<li>Reasonablty small class sizes, especially upper level courses (i was surprised about this one)</li>
<li>A+ looking girls</li>
<li>great social scene</li>
<li>She stringly recommended living on campus, especially the first year.</li>
<li>food, good… not great</li>
<li>strong greek presence, but not overwhelming</li>
<li>good mixture of politically conservative and liberal students.</li>
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