<p>“I don’t even know why USF is called University of South Florida - it’s on the gulf coast and isn’t even situated towards the southern end of the state anyways. You can’t call it University of Tampa because there’s already a private college by that name, so - yeah. Can’t call it FGCU, that’s taken as well. I’m out of ideas, any others?.”</p>
<p>It’s called University of South Florida because at the time of its founding, it was in fact, the southern most public university in the state of Florida. Believe it or not, the other names they considered at the time were even worse.</p>
<p>lol I can see it now: UF Gainesville, UF Tallahassee, UF Jacksonville, UF Tampa, UF Orlando… just like UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara etc…lol</p>
<p>And I actually wouldn’t mind implementing the Cal system in Florida. They’ve done an incredible job over there and I don’t see why it couldn’t succeed over here.</p>
<p>First of all I did not go to UF, FSU or UCF but I did receive a 100% full scholarship to all, I chose to go to Vanderbilt University on a full ride.</p>
<p>First of all there is no doubt that UF is the best school out of FSU UCF and UF. Lately however, FSU is not a better school than UCF. UCF has exploded over the past years. They offer much nicer facilities and honestly I feel have smarter kids. I am a pre-med student at Vanderbilt (recently accepted to Georgetown Medical School :)) and have often chosen to do lab studies that interacted with FSU and UCF in order to be able to visit my younger brother at FSU and be closer to my parents at UCF when I was home over breaks but could still get lab work done. Let me simply say the students I worked with at UCF were much brighter than the students at FSU. The mass opinion of these schools has changed over the years. UCF has become known as the new, up and coming school with an amazing campus and FSU has taken the down the tubes red neck school while UF has surged away with being the most prestigious school in the state. I have plenty of friends who went to UF, UCF, and FSU and have noticed several trends. The kids who weren’t smart enough to go to UF and knew it or were loyal FSU fans obviously went to FSU but the kids who were on the verge of getting into UF but did not mostly went to UCF and not FSU. Also even more interesting is I have many, many friends who chose UCF OVER FSU. The job market in the UCF area is much better and many of my friends simply thought the high class of the UCF campus was second to none. I will agree, UCF does have a more high class and cleaner campus than FSU. </p>
<p>Freshman Class Profile - Fall 2008 for UCF
Average SAT: 1219
UCF acceptance rate 50.4%, FSU acceptance rate 55.6%</p>
<p>and to that person who was being very obnoxious in the post…I believe that Vanderbilt is a better school than your undergrad school and I doubt your “prestigious” northern school that aint normal for us southern folk, can compare to Georgetown Med.</p>
<p>D is OOS and is going for Event Management. She applied to UCF which has a BS in that exact field. She also applied to FSU and USF for their Hospitality programs. She didn’t bother applying to UF because their hospitality program wasn’t as strong as the others.</p>
<p>She was accepted to UCF, offered to apply for Lead Scholars, but was deferred from FSU and USF. She took the UCF offer and hasn’t looked back. She feels that UCF really took a hard look at her overall application, with outstanding ECs and class leadership throughout her HS career, as well as her GPA and test scores. She felt that FSU and USF placed too much emphasis on SAT/ACT scores and didn’t look at what a contributing asset she would be to the school.</p>
<p>I know at least one student who left UCF to go to FSU but none the other way. I cannot think, out of dozens and dozens of FSU students I personally and recently have had contact with, who’d ever suggest UCF is a better academic university in any sense. None think UF is better than FSU for that matter as well.</p>
<p>There are a lot of variables over why someone may pick UCF over FSU and vice versa, because of location and other variables like I’ve said before. I double checked your statistics on UCF’s OIR website. SSobick, and they’re correct for the most part (the admission rate is actually 48%, but still higher than FSU’s).</p>
<p>This isn’t surprising. Last year, FSU decided to cut the size of their Freshman class. This, of course, caused selectivity at FSU to skyrocket. UCF has made no cuts to enrollment so far because they only just now capped their student population. UCF has made enormous strides towards being more selective in such a short time while increasing enrollment. This only foreshadows the future of the university, if it continues to grow in popularity at such a rate.</p>
<p>All Following Data taken/calculated from FSU IR Website and UCF Common Data Set</p>
<p>When two universities are that statistically close together, you can’t really say that one is getting better students than the other. I don’t think a rise in one ACT point is enough to sway an admission decision anywhere.</p>