<p>My D received a letter today from USF admissions saying they are referring her application to their sister institution in St Pete for consideration. Has anyone else had any experience with this? Anything anybody can tell me about the St. Pete campus?? Thanks!</p>
<p>USF St. Pete is part of the USF system, but it operates as a freestanding, independent college separate from USF Tampa. USF St. Pete has a lot going for it, it is smaller and surely is the perfect college for some students. I like its location in downtown St. Pete by the waterfront. You should investigate it thoroughly and decide with your daughter if it is the school for her.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>We got the same letter and decided to check it out. The campus is very small but beautiful and the dorms are only six years old. Even though my D will graduate on Honor Court and has very strong extracurriculars she did not meet the SAT qualifications for some of the bigger schools. I think the smaller classes at USFSP will be perfect for her. My thought is she can always tranfer to the Tampa campus after she gets one solid year under her belt if she wishes. (I think she will love it there, though, and will end up staying as long as she can!) Good luck!</p>
<p>Students who don’t meet admissions requirements for the Tampa campus will be referred here. It’s a small school in a beautiful setting.</p>
<p>Its a great school, with a great view. A lot of people apply there from the start then just transfer to the tampa campus later.</p>
<p>USF St. Pete > USF Tampa in my opinion. I’ve gone to both and I think living in Downtown St. Pete is much better than Tampa, and I don’t think the education you receive at USF St. Pete is materially different from USF Tampa.</p>
<p>As long as USF St. Pete has all of the classes for your major it will work fine.
I couldn’t have gone there because it doesn’t offer chemistry classes beyond organic. I did take general chemistry 2 at St. Pete one summer though, and it is beautiful. It’s certainly fine to start out and may be fine all the way through, but that entirely depends on your major.</p>