<p>My daughter was also accepted at FSU last night but was deferred for UCF. We didn’t this was possible. We actually thought that getting accepted at FSU was a pipe dream and she thought that she had a good chance at UCF for the Pre-Med program. So, now we don’t know whether to go ahead and accept FSU so that she can start applying for housing or wait it out for UCF. But then again UCF can come back and say she is denied and we would have waited all that time and housing will not be able.</p>
<p>Cheer mom - I would have you daughter apply for housing at fsu without accepting yet. I think the housing deposit, except for $50 is refundable, so it’s cheap insurance.</p>
<p>Agreed, put down housing just in case. Gosh, It seems like UCF is really starting to up their expectations:/</p>
<p>I think I would have been accepted to ucf had I not emailed that lady. I know people that got accepted with way lower scores than mine and they’re also out of state. They got in for fall too, not summer which I applied for. </p>
<p>cheer mom have her get a housing priority number, you don’t have to put in the admissions deposit to do so. you can pay the housing deposit within 10 days so my advice is to get a number ASAP. I went on and got 35 so I am guaranteed any living I want pretty much. This number sticks with you all 4 years. $50 is all you’ll be losing if she chooses UCF. Also, may I ask, what were her stats?</p>
<p>So i made my final decision and im going to UCF!! Now i just have to decide on what dorm I want lol.</p>
<p>Libra!
Pod style!</p>
<p>UCF has a Student-Faculty ratio of about 32 to1. Florida State has a ratio of 22 to 1. Both were made worse in the current budget environment. </p>
<p>This is not difficult.</p>
<p>Actually, it is, nole, because there’s many things to factor in. Such as, that ratio would never be a problem for me, because I have 35 kids, average, in every class throughout my high school life. It will not be a new change. What about location? No matter what an individual says, no one can say that Tallahassee has more internship and job opportunities then orlando does. It’s an obvious fact. It’s difficult for the OP to decide, because they’re both amazing schools, however, looking at your previous post, and seeing as you have children who attend FSU (As well as looking at your screen name) it’s a bit bias. He’s choosing UCF because it’s a better fit for him, and what he wants-now that’s not difficult.</p>
<p>my daughter just got accepted to fsu and hasnt heard on ucf yet. She is also considering UF if she gets in. She was also accepted to USF and offered a pretty nice scholarship there. I have to say that while I know there is crime in every city, at first i was telling her I would not even consider letting her apply to UCF. This is because we live about an hour away, and the horrible crime stories we hear on the news for that area, every night is just scary. I’m talking rape and murder and home invasions, I imagine it might be the same everywhere but to be honest, when I visit my son in NYC, the news up there doesnt seem near as bad. Orlando area crime is just awful, to the point of if you are vacationing at Disney you wouldnt want to be anywhere that is not on Disney property. This is just from a person that lives an hour away, and orlando news is our local news channel. Perhaps if I lived near tallahassee I would be hearing the same thing, but let me tell you, its bad :(</p>
<p>FYI I just looked up these annual violent crime rates orlando 3848 tallahassee 1965, neither are very Impressive but does seem like orlando is significantly worse :(</p>
<p>I feel as though it depends what you’re used to. If you’re from a small, safe area, it will come across as shocking. However, some of us are used to it. I’m from chicago, which has very high crime.</p>
<p>That’s a good point WRITE. I think for us, we have lived in this area almost 30 years, and back in the day, Orlando was considered a relatively safe area. it’s been really sad to see things deteriorate so badly. Also, there may or may not be a lot of job internship opportunities for students over there, but also right now in the Orlando area there is a huge homeless, deplaced family population. Families that have lost their homes and jobs, and they can’t find any work and are living out of their cars and stuff, they even had a Nightline special about it, how many kids in the Orlando area are sent to school hungry and going to bed without supper:(</p>
<p>The best universities have low student-faculty ratios. Why would anyone attend a school, pay significantly for an education, and opt for LESS contact with faculty?</p>
<p>Doesn’t make sense to me.</p>
<p>That point is not necessarily true. Such as, you can have a small ratio, but the professor can be lacking, so it doesn’t directly relate. Obviously FSU has some amazing professors-UCF does, too. You have to look at the over all picture, and everyone is looking for something different. While the I thought the FSU campus was pretty, I could not stand how close the buildings were, as well as the hype of football. I’d rather attend a university, like UCF, where football isn’t a huge aspect, though now they’re in the big east. The campus was designed in a admiring and intelligent way, in the rings of circles, verses the buildings at FSU randomly scattered. As well as other things, it’s based on what you want, and UCF has it, for me, at least. FSU SHOULD have some better academics, they’ve been around, what, 100 years? UCF is breathing down their necks, and they only established in 63’. At this rate, it won’t be surprising if they end up greatly competing with FSU/UF.</p>
<p>May-we see it in chicago all the time:( It’s really awful how the economy is impacting everyone, and I don’t see a change occurring anytime soon. Though chicago is a beautiful city, you can’t walk down jackson street without a homeless invidiual following you. Yet, when I give them money, they will follow you the rest of the day, so it’s all about being careful and cautious.</p>
<p>regardless of where my daughter decides to go, I am really gonna have to try to prepare her, shes been pretty spoiled and sheltered in our upper middle class area and anywhere will probably be a bit of a rude awakening. She really will need to learn that she is not in Kansas anymore…sigh</p>
<p>crime in orlando? The 2 years we lived there we didn’t even lock our doors and nothing hapenned. You just gotta be careful like in every city and dont do stupid things, and nothing will happen to you. If you are stupid, you will get raped in Beverly Hills too</p>
<p>^ This. Chill out guys. Just don’t be an idiot and carry a knife if you’re really that worried. At the very least it will give you peace of mind lol</p>
<p>Let me just say that where a school is really is not important for jobs and internships. My cousin who graduated from UNC got an internship in NYC and now has a job there. My brother who goes to Penn State, which if anyone knows ANYTHING about PSU, they know it is in the middle of nowhere. Yet, PSU is said to have the best percentage of students who get jobs right after graduating and it is never in the penn state area.</p>
<p>I can vouch for the safety of UCF. I live three minutes away from the main campus and have never felt scared for my life or seen a crime occur. The high crime rates of Orlando are generally in downtown Orlando, which is not where UCF is located. UCF is in more of a suburbs of Orlando, but they like to say ‘Orlando’ because it’s a bigger, well-known city in Florida and it’s about a half-hour drive away. Anyone who says that the area around UCF has high crime rates has obviously never been here. The public elementary, middle, and high schools around UCF are considered some of the better schools in the state and as a result many families have developed the area around it making it a very safe area. On the actual campus, they have their own police squad/department dedicated to UCF. There’s always a risk when you have such a large university, but I’m surprised by all the comments involving crime rates in this discussion board for UCF.</p>