PaCE program?

Hi @Louis27. That is a great question. You will need 60 credits and the tracking req for the major you are interested in. In some majors this will NOT equal what you need for an AA. PaCE students will have the option of getting their AA, but only if they want to. It is not required for transition to campus in any major (i.e. even if you have all the courses for the AA if you don’t want to fill out the paper work for the AA you will still be allowed to transition to campus). All Colleges will have detailed info on tracking reqs up next week.

@NSN2015. Hear it loud and clear that we need a way of connecting PaCE students!!! Will work on that next week.

If you apply for UF Online you will only be allowed to take UF Online majors (will be ~15 majors for Fall 2015). You do not have the guarantee of transitioning to campus. Something to keep in mind; if you have a PaCE offer you can stay in UF Online the entire time and get a degree in ANY of the UF Online majors. This is especially important to note for students who may be interested in Crim or PSY, since these are in UF Online but not in PaCE (i.e. you can’t transition from PaCE onto campus in Crim or PSY but you could change your major to UF Online Crim or PSY and do it entirely online - you would also get the 25% tuition discount the entire time!).

PaCE offers were only given to students who applied through the residential admission process.

So if I want to attend UF I am required to be in pace and select a major that only pace offers? And if i don’t want to be involved in pace and/or a major pace doesn’t offer I will ultimately be rejected from UF? I want to attend UF badly, but this seems highly unfair in my opinion that we have so many restrictions that normal students won’t have. There are no alternate options like starting in the summer WITHOUT pace or anything?

Sorry, maybe I was not clear, I was NOT asking about taking PaCE online in Summer(I understood that some classes were not available) but was wondering about Summer B residential, the shorter session before Fall, I know of some people that got in that session. Rumor is that Fall students are always the applicants who really qualified to get in, and Summer B was the applicants who just made it in, so I wondered how the PaCE students fit into that. Would we have gotten into Fall if there was space or were both Fall and Summer B all filled and PaCE was the only other option?

@ufonline i was accepted to pace and i have some questions too

  1. i initially applied for on campus housing for the summer B term. you mentioned before that i was put into pace because of the lack of space for housing. is there any way i can be reconsidered to be a traditional student if i no longer need on campus housing? even if this means that i have to start in fall instead of summer b?
  2. is it possible if i can take general ed electives at santa fe and the core classes for my major online with the pace program? this way i can get somewhat of a classroom experience instead of having to take everything online for 2 years.
  3. since pace is not offered during the summer, could i start taking classes over the summer at santa fe and then transfer the credits to the pace program?

i forgot to ask in my previous post: are minors offered through pace?

@jacob2304 Yes, you are correct. If you received a PaCE offer, to attend UF you will have to accept the PaCE offer. You will not have been “rejected”, you would have “decline” UF if you decline PaCE. I know, that likely does not make you feel better. The other way to think about this is if PaCE did not exist (last year) you might have not been offered admission.

@ems124 Yes, there are minors. In UF Online, officially there are two (Biz and soon, Soc) but PaCE students will be able to pick up courses for a number of minors once on campus. Suggested talking to an academic advisor about specific details regarding minors.

@ems124

  1. You were offered PaCE not because of a lack of housing but a lack of space on campus for classes/space.
  1. You have the option of taking courses outside of UF while in the PaCE program (just like a residential student would). Would suggest talking with an Advisor to see if this would change any aid you may be receiving and tracking towards your degree.
  2. Taking courses prior to enrolling at UF would be a discussion you would have with your UF Advisor.

In regards to the credits required, are there any limits on or specific requirements for AP/AICE/Dual Enrollment credits that could count toward the 60 required PaCE credit hours? Or will PaCE just accept which ever college credits students have earned?

@Grad2019 PaCE students will not be able to start until Fall. Admissions made decisions on residential offers first and then PaCE offers. However, it is important to keep in mind that 1. only select majors, based on space on campus, are included in PaCE and 2. the admission process is not perfect. Ideally, we would love to have everyone who can succeed at UF be accepted. Even with PaCE we were not able to offer every outstanding student a place at UF.

Hi @Louis27 There are limits on AP/AICE/Dual credits. They are the same rules that are in place for residential students. For example, a max of 45 can be brought in. Admissions along with Advising will be able to help you determine exactly how many credits you will be bringing in.

Had trouble finding this, but would Pre-Law and Finance be offered by the PaCE program?

No problems with choosing a major for Pre-Law

Hi @MDugg9. As @Gator88NE correctly points out Pre-Law schools accept online courses. Being Pre-law in PaCE should not affect your applications to law school. Finance in the College of Biz is NOT in PaCE. Finance in CALS IS in PaCE. Of course Biz is in PaCE (and also in UF Online) if you wanted to do your entire degree online. For all non-PaCE majors you can submit a transfer application to take one of these majors on the UF Campus but you would have to be in a different major while in PaCE (and there would be no guarantee to get into the residential non-PaCE major. Only in PaCE majors do PaCE student have a guarantee of a spot on campus).

Good morning @UFOnline. What about if my D wants to do Marketing… There is no PaCE major in marketing but there Business Gen Studies. What happens in that case?.

So if I want to be in the premed program I can transfer to the campus, but I would have to take another major online? You said all non-pace majors can transfer if I’m reading correctly.

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What kind of extracurricular activities would be available to PaCE students? According to the UFOnline FAQ, online students would only be able to participate in “extracurricular and leadership activities that are unique to the UF Online experience”. Does this differ for PaCE students? Will they have access to the campus, its clubs, and events as long as they are not fee-based? As in, if students were to move to Gainesville would they be able to get as close to the traditional college experience as they could?

Thank you so much for all your help!

@Louis27 PaCE students are considered UF Online students until they transition to campus and can do everything a UF Online student can. There are no differences between a PaCE student and a UF Online student while they are in UF Online (a normal UF Online student does not have the transition to campus offer that a PaCE student does). As long as it is not fee-based you “should” be able to do it (I say “should” b/c there may be something out there we have not thought of yet that we are missing). You can buy tix to all events like anybody living in Gainesville can (like football and basketball).

@bkianka There is no Pre-med major at UF (in any program)! If you were interested in pre-med you would pick a major and then be advised as “pre-med” by an Advisor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (even if your major was in a different College). In theory, you could choose a PaCE major and get the pre-req courses for med school. However, we HIGHLY discourage this since most med schools do not accept online required courses. UF Med school will accept UF online courses, but it is not necessarily true that another med school will accept UF online courses (or that UF Med would accept other schools pre-req courses).