<p>I am so amazed every time I read about UF being ranked as a party school and the school with least amount of studying. That seems incongruous with a school that is so hard to get into. It would seem that students with the grades to get into UF would have to be serious students.</p>
<p>So what do you all think? Are the students smart enough to not have to study? Do a lot of students flunk out, or do you think there is more studying going on than the ranking suggests?</p>
<p>Serious question - I really am curious. I am older and doing graduate work at UF so I don't really know much about party v. study life at the school.</p>
<p>I am glad you asked this question. The truth is: the high rankings in partying and studying the least are directly attributed to winning all of those National Championships. Basically you have the media covering how UF students stampede the campus and the outlying areas in celebration. People just assume that this happens on a regular basis. 3 years ago when the University of Texas won the National Championship their party school ranking shot up to #1 as well. I can guarantee this was not the case when Ron Zook was stinking up the program and Billy Donovan when he failed to advance very far in the NCAA Tournament (which was only about 5 years ago - and UF was ranked about 20th overall in partying).</p>
<p>The University of Florida keeps 94% of their students after the first year, and has a 6 year graduation rate of 81%. So clearly we have a very intelligent and dedicated student body. I would argue that the professor are not challenging the students hard enough. Luckily this semester was the first time in UF’s history that we implemented minuses on the transcripts.</p>
<p>Personally, I spend most of my time studying. I don’t think UF is as much of a party school as they make it seem. Of course there are people who party all the time, but there are also a large number of students who spend a lot of time studying.</p>
<p>to put what SSobick said into perspective, the national average for 6 year graduation rates is about 50%, and only 4 florida schools have a greater than 50% graduation rate.</p>
<p>With 35,000 ugrads, I think its hard to use generalizations like party school and least amount of students studying. Even if you have 4,000 students that party all the time, which would be a lot of parties, there is this another 31,000 that might be doing something else.</p>
<p>Some people are smart enough to not study and, yes, some students flunk out. The vast majority, however, have found a way to balance. Study early and go out later. Or just cram for exams. The tutoring services around UF are making a huge profit, I’m sure.</p>