<p>Hey,
So I know that there area already posts comparing there 2 school but the schools change and grow so much every year (especially UCF).</p>
<p>So I'm not sure of my major at all but right now I'm looking at engineering (last week was nursing).</p>
<p>Both school offered me scholarships, but UCF offered me more by $11,000 over 4 years. So it's not THAT much more. I got accepted into both Honors programs</p>
<p>I'm really looking for a school that can treat me "special", that can help me grow as a student because I need a lot of help. I need help with my major and planning classes so I want to go to a college where advisers are always there to help me. I really want a school that I'm proud of where I can do undergraduate research, and play intramural sports. I'm hoping my school has lots of school spirit.</p>
<p>Although I currently reside in Orlando, I will be staying in a dorm at either schools because I want the typical college experiences. I want to learn how to cook my own food, I want to meet lots of people. I want to have lots of friends and go to parties (not that many)</p>
<p>UCF gave you $11,000 more than USF?! I’m all for USF; but, OP, that’s a lot of money. I’d say go to UCF. </p>
<p>Buuuuuuuuttttt…</p>
<p>On the basis of research opportunities and the avalability of mentors and advisors, I go with USF. They have a program in the honors college that helps pair you up with professors that are doing research in interests similar to yours! Pretty cool right? Also the honors college has mentors that you’ll be able to be assigned to who will guide you to accomplishing your goals. USF has a strong support system. Stronger than UCF’s.</p>
<p>This is more of a rebuttal to Niquii77’s reply than a response to this thread, but I’ll post it anyways. Just some background, I’m a first year student at UCF, a member of the Burnett Honors College, and I am currently doing undergraduate research in an Applied Cognition & Aging lab. Like USF (according to Niquii’s post), UCF’s honors college has a program set in place to match interested students with professors currently seeking undergrad researchers. In fact, outside of the honors college there are several programs set in place for the entire student population to match students with professors in a database that are taking undergrad researchers. </p>
<p>I think that you’d be surprised at how easy it is to get involved in undergrad research. Despite the programs available to me (and the fact that my national merit adviser does research and was readily available for me to use), I actually got my current research position just by going up to one of my professors on the first day of class this semester and asking if he was looking for any undergrad researchers. One of my roommates got her research position by sending out mass emails to professors and choosing which lab interested her the most. The awesome part about college is that you are surrounded by cutting edge research and many of your professors are spearheading that research.</p>
<p>That said, like USF, UCF offers you a plethora of advisers (I have lost track of how many I have). There is a building on campus next to the psychology building called Career Services Exploration and Learning (CSEL) that is there solely for the purpose of helping you figure out what major best suits you, how to present yourself well to potential employees, and other things you’ll need in your future career. I went to a workshop there with a friend who is undecided, so they are constantly attempting to draw students in who don’t know about them.</p>
<p>I say all this not because I think UCF is better than USF. I love UCF, but I honestly think that it’s up to the individual to make their own undergrad experience. Both UCF and USF are going to offer you plenty of opportunities and services to make your undergrad experience the best it can be, and if you take advantage of those you will LOVE college at either university; however, you can be miserable a either university if you don’t take an active role in your life.</p>
<p>I usually hate vague answers that don’t really answer the question that is asked, but I honestly don’t think it matters where you go. If the extra scholarship money honestly doesn’t matter to you, then think about if either university makes you a little more excited than the other. I just didn’t want you to choose to go to USF solely based on the assumption that their research and advising is somehow better than UCF’s. It isn’t. Good luck with your decision!</p>