<p>How difficult is it to actually get the classes you need at both colleges? A parent was telling me that at UCF there are only 200 chairs and 2000 students for the class. So if you want to actually attend the lecture you need to get to the class way in advance in order to get a seat. She said that everyone ends up taking it online instead. Another parent told me that it’s difficult to actually get the class you sign up for at FSU. It has me rethinking the whole decision as my son’s been accepted at FGCU as well.</p>
<p>For classes at UCF, it depends on the major.</p>
<p>A lot of the business classes have a ton of seats (I’ve seen as high as 800), but are video streaming classes. So the student can either go to the class or watch the lecture online during the class or at a later time. The lecture hall generally will not have enough space for 800 students.</p>
<p>Other majors tend to have less seats but more sections and require you to go. They generally have enough seats that unless you sign up insanely late, you’ll get them. Exceptions include some labs, which do not have enough sections to meet the demand due to room restraints. The most common problem is the Chem II lab, which fills up insanely quick because there are only so many teaching labs for it, each section only has 20 slots or so and it’s 3 hour sections. In this case, you may forgo taking the lab until you grab a spot, unless you have very early enrollment time (Senior/Junior/LEAD/Honors/High GPA)</p>
<p>I have visited UCF today, and really liked the campus. Feels very relaxed, overall.</p>
<p>@TheTicks, how about undergrad classes?</p>
<p>My daughter just made her decision today, and it is UCF. We do live 10 minutes away, and she was very against going here, because she wanted to get away, but I asked her to please look at the school, tour it, ask around before deciding against it. She did the tour this morning, and decided this is what she wants. She was offered a great scholarship to Rollins, but would still carry quite a bit more loan debt at Rollins vs. very little, if any, as we are more likely to be able to help her with the debt at UCF. She thought she was really decided on Rollins, but I think after seeing that she will not be able to have the typical Rollins lifestyle that most of those students have, living on campus, driving a BMW, and not having to work, she finally realized that UCF might be a better fit. She was also accepted to FSU but she felt it would be easier to find a job in Orlando vs. Tallahassee. She seems to be happy with her decision, and relieved that she has finally made one.</p>
<p>@becrisler, everything I mentioned referred to undergraduate.</p>
<p>I should have said prior to entering your major.</p>
<p>You mean the General Ed. classes? It shouldn’t be an issue. Although, you shouldn’t be taking only Gen. Eds. unless you have no other choice (College of Business usually has that issue where you can’t take any major classes, and even then…)</p>
<p>I finally made my decision. As much as I know FSU is a great school, I went with UCF. Thanks everyone for all of the advice you’ve given me, it really did help me in making my decision.</p>
<p>Congragulations, Nicholas! I know it must have been a very difficult choice-if UCF doesn’t end up being what you wished, you can always transfer to FSU! You’re officially a knight:)</p>
<p>Yeah it feels good! I was thinking about transferring to UF…if UCF doesn’t work out, but I’m sure it will!</p>
<p>“However, UCF is so big (almost TWICE the size of FSU)
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“All FL publics are big but UCF is ginormous!”</p>
<p>Why do people seem to think this? It there some kind of optical illusion at play, or they are just basing it on raw enrollment numbers (note: UCF online courses should not really factor into the on-campus population).</p>
<p>I recently visited both campuses and drove around them both and looked and the buildings and campus size in detail. I was blown away by the sheer size of FSU. Hands down, it was enormous by comparison. UCF just seemed smaller to me. More compact in some ways. The UCF campus actually reminded me of Disney’s Magic Kingdom, where everything circles around a central hub, with less streets and lots more walking. In contrast, FSU is much more sprawling, with streets and hills separating what appears to be an endless sea of matching brownstone campus buildings, dorms, halls, sport complexs and fields, etc. More like a very large inner-city university.</p>
<p>But to set the record straight, FSU is just plain bigger. Don’t believe me? Do this: open each college in a separate tab of maps.google.com, then set both to a 1000 ft elevation and you can see the relative difference for yourself (in shaded campus area).</p>
<p>Also, another misconception: people often refer to FSU as being older and UCF as being more contemporary. While its true that FSU was establish in the early part of the last century and UCF in the 60s, I wanted to point out that most of the buildings I saw at FSU were brand new with lots of new construction all around. But they all tie together with the same brick facade theme. And it definitely looks like Hogwarts at night! So this gives FSU the appearance of looking like a very old institution (like the northeast Ivy Leagues), but trust me, most of the buildings I saw were either brand new or very modernized on the inside. And I actually wondered where they got all the money for such a massive display of university presence - then I remembered it was the state capitol, and just figured FSU was benefiting from being just a little closer to the state tax honey pot than other universities. :-)</p>
<p>Yeah, I can see where your coming from.</p>
<p>Where did you end up deciding to go,I was literally in the same predicament as you accepted to UCF summer FSU fall. I ended up choosing UCF in early November, just waiting for february to see if I got into UF. Needless to say I didn’t lol I paid for all my tuition and everything housing orientation everything for UCF, and last month changed my mind and decided to go to FSU 
The landscape, school, establishment of being here for so long; and that fact that its in the state capital, and has argubaly the best criminology program in the state are all why I chose there. In the end UCF was a nice campus, it did feel like home, like a place I could see myself there. It felt, comfortable. Maybe too comfortable I wanted to experience something new and thats why FSU will be my new home, where I am prone to learn how to survive with my parents not 45 mins away from me. Welp thats just me? So where’d you go?!</p>
<p>Disclaimer:(I didn’t read through the whole post just the questions and some entries, so sorry if you already said where you chose haha)</p>
<p>You decided to attend UCF:) Congratulations on choosing FSU, it’s no wonder-their criminology program is GREAT, from what I’ve heard of it!</p>
<p>Yeah, BiancaMarie819, I decided to attend UCF in the summer, I’m sure FSU is a phenomenal school, and it was a really close decision between the two. I’m sure you’ll really like FSU, I have alot of friends going there, who really love the school. The criminology program is FSU is arguably one of the best in the country, so if that’s what you want to pursue, FSU is the place for you :).</p>