<p>Alright, I was offered admissions to the summer term, but I really don't know mich about it. Can someone who knows a lot about it please give me the "dummy" explanation of it. Is it better to start early?</p>
<p>My son entered UCF in the summer term of 2012. He stayed in the Nike/Hercules dorms, and he said it was fine. He thought it gave him a better opportunity to meet people early and learn the layout of the school.</p>
<p>He took one academic class and one “fun” class. </p>
<p>He did however have a friend who was also admitted for summer who took her classes online, and thus did not have to move down and live in the dorm. It saved her a LOT of money and if he had it to do over again he said he would have taken that same route.
Honestly, we didn’t know it was an option at the time or we would have done that as well.</p>
<p>He is in his second year there, but now living at Boardwalk apartments. My daughter is applying there this fall, so I am keeping an eye on the boards-if you have any questions about UCF that I can help you with just let me know!</p>
<p>I was a summer term student for the summer of 2012, so I can give you my personal view point on the whole thing. First, I’d like to firmly state that if given the choice between summer and fall term, I would have taken summer anyway. There’s so many positives involved, as well as things that may surprise you. When I came down for summer term, I lived in the Nike dorms, and loved it there. I took two classes-SLS (Strategies for success in college, more of an easy class, which is mandatory for freshmen) and american national government. Now, you have to be careful of the classes you take, because if you fail a class, UCF can and will decide to not allow you to move onto fall. The accepted you for summer because they want you to be apart of the knight family, but they have your best interest and success at heart, so they want you to get a six weeks head start of the college life. The positives are that, come fall, you know the campus like the back of your hand. While all the fall students were sitting at home, counting the days until they got to go to college, you were already here. You have credits at the actual school, under your belt, before fall even starts. You’ll already establish a great group of friends before that, while in fall, those students are just starting. You know the ins and outs of campus, placed around campus worth going to, where not to waste your time, etc. Also, it really does make a difference in your academics. By taking two classes over the summer, it eased me into what those classes are like, in a slow manner, so that for fall I was more then prepared. It’s only six weeks long, goes my very quickly, and is easily worth it. Message me if you have any more specific questions!:)</p>