<p>I have been accepted to both USF honors and the Burnett Honors College of UCF. I am most likely going to do the 7-year accelerated medical program. Can anybody give me advice on where to go? My parents want me to go to USF for all 7 years because they think that if I go to USF for my undergrad years, that it'll look better that I stayed at USF for all 7 years, which I think is incorrect. So yeah. somebody please tell me which honors college is better, academic-wise, and your personal experiences.. THANKS!</p>
<p>I don’t currently attend UCF (Fall 2010), but here is my opinion.</p>
<p>I know the medical program at UCF is very new (meaning new facilities and tech) and that the initiating class had credentials that could rival their counterparts at top tier universities. </p>
<p>Besides that, I don’t hear very much about USF’s academics. I have several friends (one who plans to transfer out) who attend there that claim that their peers can’t write a simple five paragraph essay; they hate it. I’m sure this doesn’t apply to all the students at USF (I’m sure you’d find similar students at UCF), however. On the other hand, I hear quite a bit about UCF’s achievements in engineering (DARPA, SAE, etc). I wouldn’t know about the other majors.</p>
<p>Your best bet would be to visit the two campuses and see if you rather spend all 7 years at USF or the 3/4 spit at UCF and USF.</p>
<p>Well first I’d like to agree with you, it doesn’t look bad at all if you spend four years at UCF then go to USF. In fact that’s what most people do, some stick at the same school for grad school but a whole bunch don’t. It doesn’t look bad at all lol. It may up to you on how you really feel about each but I loved my first semester at UCF and the Burnett Honors College so far. I turned UF down and chose to come here instead. Everyone I have encountered so far has been friendly and my class mates have all been very intelligent. Like Bonafide said, UCF’s medical program is very new, first class was in Fall 09. However, thats irrelevant because thats our medical school, a graduate program. So that doesnt really concern you just yet. As far as a medical track that can prepare you for med school, UCF does have some pretty good programs already in place.</p>
<p>Per the attached link for the USF College of Medicine Class of 2013 profile, it looks like 2 UCF students are doing the 7 year (BS/MD) accelerrated program and 17 USF students are doing the accelerated program.</p>
<p><a href=“http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=7454[/url]”>http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=7454</a></p>
<p>I can’t imagine it would “look good” or “look bad” to do one or the other. If you graduate from medical school, that’s all they’ll care about. Do you want to spend the next 7 years of your life in one city, or not? That’s the only question that really matters.</p>
<p>You’ve probably made up your mind by now, its been a few months. But this guy from UCF spoke at my school today and he said to get into the accelerated med program you’d have to get into UCF honors, and you’d be there 3 years, and then 4 years graduate at USF. I don’t think it would look good or bad either way. It depends on what campus you think was right for you as an undergraduate.</p>