<p>Service academy is all I have to say</p>
<p>Ah, sorry, goNavy, the US Naval Academy sounds very prestigious to me! Congratulations! UVA is a minor bump in the road. Full speed ahead! Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Climate... I hate the cold...
UF is free
Don't want to fly on a plane to get home
No Rodman... at least not yet...
tough tough decision.</p>
<p>^^Doesn't sound like a tough decision to me!</p>
<p>You don't like the 3 things you can't control. So go with UF!</p>
<p>I'm such a California person, and I can't stand the cold and somewhat erratic weather here. Sometimes you can expect great weather, but then it can get a bit too humid for sure. Right now, we have much better days, but there's more rain than usual.</p>
<p>We visited UVA.. & Loved it! Since I read the whole tread before going.. we had fun counting North Face Jackets..Ha..ha..
What people wear wouldn't influence a decision.
I would like to meet Dean J.. he is always so helpful !!</p>
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Fixed! :)</p>
<p>Feel free to come by admission a some point and say hello!</p>
<p>Upps! sorry.. I'll go to admissions for sure, some time during the next 4 years :)</p>
<p>Okay. I will be honest. There is one big downside to UVA.</p>
<p>If you don't know what you want to major in, it's hard. There are a lot of majors that you must apply for (after acceptance, and even within the College of Arts and Sciences) and that you may not get accepted to. (Thank goodness I just got accepted into my field). Further, many majors require a few courses as prerequisites before declaring (think: Economics, Media Studies, etc.) You should definitely take pre-req courses for a variety of majors your first couple years, so that you have OPTIONS when you are declaring your major. </p>
<p>I am of the opinion that if you are smart enough to get into this school, you should be allowed to pursue your field of interest (slash passion) regardless. Your university should help you in anyway possible pursue your career goals, not hinder you.</p>
<p>Also, watch out if you are pre-med. (We don't call it that- we call it Bio or Chem majors.) But CHEM 141 is incredibly difficult and I have seen so many friends give up on their hope to become doctors because of their poor grades in that class. </p>
<p>It is just a shame because I would rather have a doctor who got a C or D at UVA than one that went to a way worse school, with an easier program, any day of the week. Those UVA students, however, have an incredibly difficult time getting accepted to top med programs because of incredibly challenging premed classes.</p>
<p>CHEM 141 is not hard. My observation was that too many chem students were ill-prepared or more often, weren't taking class seriously. There were quite a few who skipped class, or were too hung-over and they paid for it. This isn't high school anymore.</p>
<p>What happens if you don't get accepted to the major you want?</p>
<p>You choose another one.</p>
<p>MechWahoo,</p>
<p>I don't know about your high school, but I never A) didn't show up or B) showed up hung over. ;-]</p>
<p>Jags,</p>
<p>Your HS must have been pretty dull.</p>