I’ve read that UF mostly caters to athletes and provides them with tons of support to help them succeed, whereas other students climb mountains of bureaucracy to get required classes. Is that true? Do students have to really fight administration to be able to graduate in 4 years?
UF has about 500 NCAA Division 1-A varsity athletes on a campus with 50,000+ students. Based on your major, after your freshman/sophomore year you may never have one in a class (I didn’t). Forget about the athletes…they will have no role in your academics (other than causing you to miss a study group to attend a basketball game!).
UF (like all of the large public universities) is a bureaucracy. If you’re looking for one-on-one attention, you really should look at a (much more expensive) LAC. Otherwise, you do have to work your way through the bureaucracy.
With that being said, it’s very possible to graduate in 4 years (based on your major). UF is pretty liberal in taking AP/IB/AICE credits. You do have to stay focused and make sure you’re taking the right courses. If you don’t graduate in 4 years, it likely had more to do with choices you’ve made (such as changing majors, not taking a full load of courses, taking off a semester to study abroad, dropped a critical tracking class…), and not lack of access to critical track classes.
UF does have more “support” services in place for students, than many of it’s peers. It spends a fairly high amount of $ per students.
Good Luck!
Hello, I see that your worried about not having the support needed to get your Bachelors. I want you to consider Santa Fe College. At SF classes are approximately 28 students per room, and for honors on average 10-15 students.Also professors have mandatory office hours that are set aside to help students in need. Transitioning from high school to large class sizes can be hard but SF college can help make it easy. P.S. You have Options.