<p>I’ve got to agree with p2n. You came on here, and quite honestly, began talking condescendingly about both FSU and Tallahassee, and then you’re going to whine and complain when people don’t give you honest answers to your question?</p>
<p>Pot, meet kettle. </p>
<p>Now, based off the comments you have made here in just the past few days, I am 100% certain that FSU would not be a good fit for you. It is clear as day to me that is the case.</p>
<p>“Shopping–, Is there a Saks, Macys or Neiman close by ?
Hotels-- How about hotels similar to Mandarin Oriental or Waldorf ?”</p>
<p>This has to be a joke. </p>
<p>If not, I would recommend the University of Miami. The areas surrounding UF and FSU will not appeal to your aristocratic tastes. Coral Gables and south Miami, on the other hand, well let’s just say that you’d fit right in down there. UCF has some decent shopping too. Glad to see that you have your priorities in order.</p>
<p>This is, again, assuming that you are not joking with these posts.</p>
<p>How exactly wouldn’t he be a good fit for FSU?</p>
<p>You guys make it sound as if UF is the only school that has pretentious students. There are just as many in Tallahassee as there are in Gainesville.</p>
<p>“I hope to a higher power you get accepted too. To increase your odds, link to your profile here; your elitism would make you a shoe-in.”</p>
<p>Yeah Matt, kind of like how you would have been had you not gotten rejected, no?</p>
<p>Hate to break it to you, srqman, but there are students who were accepted to UF and choose to attend FSU.</p>
<p>And proud of it:) Best decision I ever made!</p>
<p>Accepted to UF. No one can ever accuse me of “settling” for FSU!</p>
<p>----"This has to be a joke. If not, I would recommend the University of Miami. The areas surrounding UF and FSU will not appeal to your aristocratic tastes. Coral Gables and south Miami, on the other hand, well let’s just say that you’d fit right in down there.----</p>
<p>I live but 10 minutes from UM on the Key and there is no way I am staying in Miami for college, but thanks for the suggestion !</p>
<p>Fsudad , I was exactly one of those students. Although I attended mostly for monetary reasons (scholarships) than anything else. all things equal I would have gone to the ‘other’ school, but it is what is is. I have an MBA from a good school so it’s not like I associate with FSU as much as I do my graduate school alma mater.</p>
<p>My gripe is with people on here who stereotype students of a rival school in the same way that they might stereotype FSU students. Both sides are wrong and extremely petty about it. I just dont like listening to hypocrites like matt pander to emotional appeals about how everybody at UF is evil and everybody at FSU is perfect. I was at fsu for 3 years and hated it, do obviously it’s not the end-all of colleges out there.</p>
<p>srqman- Sorry your personal experience at FSU was less than you wanted. I’m a firm believer that there are courses for horses, that fit is more important than nearly every other consideration. Having a child that chose FSU over UF for exactly that reason, that the school was a better fit in numerous ways, made his decision an easy one. After witnessing his complete satisfaction and happiness there, along with his outstanding academic performance so far, that belief has been validated to me.</p>
<p>My wife, my child, and myself all felt an air of pretentiousness during our two visits to the campus. We found it palpable from the admissions staff starting with the welcome presentation and also found it from the student tour guides who seemed to make more of an effort to denigrate FSU than tout their school.</p>
<p>That attitude seemed institutionally prevalent to us. I of course don’t think that it is present in all but it does exist and I can see where it comes from. Sometimes stereotypes do exist for valid reasons.</p>
<p>I can also say that I have yet to feel any of that attitude anywhere at FSU. Perhaps some time I will, who knows?</p>
<p>(I assumed your post that I responded to was a cnmpsyd-styled post, I can now see that you and Matt must have a history here. I’m sorry for that initial assumption.)</p>