<p>So I was accepted to UF in Spring 2010(meaning I have to skip the first semester and start in January 2010) and in FSU for the Fall of 2009. I really want to go to UF in summer or fall due to many reasons. They are gonna get back to me. I could always go to Santa Fe CC in UF for the first semester.</p>
<p>What should I do? UF in Spring 2010(start january) or FSU fall 2009? Thanks for the opinions!!</p>
<p>I have no idea what I want to study.</p>
<p>It depends on where your heart is. If you like FSU and really don’t want to start in Spring at UF, go to FSU. If your dream school was UF, then do something else in the fall like Santa Fe or your local community college and start in January. </p>
<p>Seems like you need to decide by Friday as enrollment is due for FSU, right? It’s probably too late to submit a request for a term change.</p>
<p>My daughter got admitted for Spring at UF and is doing Fall at Santa Fe if her request for term change to summer isn’t granted. At least she’s living by UF and involved in everything for the Fall semester.</p>
<p>I’m doing a term request change, tzais01. I requested for Summer OR Fall due to academic reasons. Good luck to your daughter. I’m most likely going to put the deposit for UF, because my parents do not want me to go to FSU.</p>
<p>I don’t want you to go to fsu either</p>
<p>why is that, rsala004?</p>
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Likely because this is a University of Florida forum.</p>
<p>Ask the same question in the FSU forum and I bet you could guess their answer. </p>
<p>In the end you have to examine your potential field of study. While UF is better for most majors, FSU has some strong art programs.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you need to know what can of lifestyle you want.
Gainesville is extremely different than Tallahassee.</p>
<p>Can you please tell me how it is? I visited gainseville, but I don’t really know what you mean by how it’s different. Gainsville looked depressing to me if you were gonna live there as a non-college student. There were alot of strip malls and stuff, but that’s about it. Like the campus is pretty huge, but I guess it’s doable to walk from one corner to a next, from my memory. Or from a dorm in the middle to the football stadium. Does it really make THAT much of a difference though? I’d assume there will be the same things to do in both colleges. Parties, little get togethers, study sessions, all kinds of different people and different friends to makes, bars for the older croud, football games. I am imagining it to be the same. I have a friend that visited the FSU campus, was accepted to UF and set on it, and now is going to FSU. But he really couldn’t verbalize why he choose FSU except that “he liked it better.” If you could would you please explain a bit why “Gainesville is extremely different than Tallahassee”? Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Don’t let the small size of Gainesville detract from the size of UF. It is a really big university.</p>
<p>That being said, everything is self contained. Anything you would want to do you can do on campus. In essence, most college students just party and attend football games. If you want a more diverse environment, maybe FSU would be better. However, my brother was very active in the greek system and he had a blast. If you were to go to UF I would recommend getting involved in student organizations to make up the dearth of things to do in Gainesville.</p>
<p>Your friend who chose FSU over UF is an anomaly. Academically, UF is much better, except for some very specialized majors. From my perspective, most of the kids who got rejected from UF went to FSU. This might be a over-generalization on my part, but FSU is increasingly becoming a second tier state university.</p>
<p>All in all, go to UF, you won’t regret it.</p>
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<p>Really? Specialized majors such as chemistry, physics, criminology, creative writing, meteorology, music, English, political science, sociology and the like?</p>
<p>Go to UF for engineering, building sciences (construction, as it were) and agricultural sciences. The rest can be quite a toss-up.</p>
<p>See: <a href=“http://fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html[/url]”>http://fsu.edu/highlights/rankings.html</a> and:
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<p>Parent2noles you honestly never have any evidence that FSU is higher than Florida in about anything in direct comparison. Get some unbiased evidence.</p>
<p>FSU isn’t that good of school. UF is better. Face reality.</p>
<p>Once again, you use the FSU website as a source. </p>
<p>Look at any ranking from any newspaper or institution and UF will be ranked higher than FSU.</p>
<p>Lets look at a US News and World Report Ranking</p>
<p>University of Florida ranked #49
[National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://rankings.usnews.com/college/national-search/page+2]National”>http://rankings.usnews.com/college/national-search/page+2)</p>
<p>Florida State University ranked #102
[National</a> Universities Rankings - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://rankings.usnews.com/college/national-search/page+5]National”>http://rankings.usnews.com/college/national-search/page+5)</p>
<p>The numbers speak for themselves</p>
<p>you don’t like to think for yourself, do you, dabigdawg</p>
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<p>ROFL</p>
<p>Honestly, my friend, you should conduct some more research before you make yourself appear any more ignorant. You insist that we should face reality that UF is “better” than FSU. I think you need a reality check because the margin between the two isn’t huge and, in the long run, a degree from EITHER institution won’t make a huge difference.</p>
<p>you’re asking this question in a UF forum. you already know the answer you wanna hear. if you’re a gator at heart, by all means, stay in Gainesville.</p>
<p>Better listen to Invictus8, bd. You may actually learn something. Some 15% of US News ratings is opinion. Another component is “per student funding”, wherein UF counts IFAS (the state agricultural extension service) as contributing to their numbers considered by US News. Now, while I appreciate having UF agri-research advise me on how to grow St. Augustine grass, I doubt if the money spent by the state there really helps you through freshman English. </p>
<p>Consider also that the only universities in Florida with any significant graduate research, by US News numbers, is FSU and UF. This includes U Miami.</p>
<p>You might also want to consider the student-faculty ratio between the two schools.</p>
<p>I don’t fault your zeal, however…the marketing combination of basketball and football championships is attractive. FSU realized a substantial push in numbers when it was clobbering opponents on the football field.</p>
<p>Last summer my son faced the same dilemma. He came from the #1 ranked hs in the country and was IB grad with honors - high sat scores. When he contacted Gainesville in disbelief (he was a gator at heart) about not being accepted for fall, they said the first factor they consider is class ranking. His class ranking would have been higher if he would have attended a regular high school, rather than one specific to “academically talented.” He also could have attended uf in the spring. </p>
<p>He chose to go to fsu and this turned out to be a good decision. He was able to join the honors program where class sizes are 6-19 students. At the end of the year, he was inducted into two academic honor fraternies, 4.0 gpa, $1800 merit scholarship for the next year, and an invitation to study overseas for next summer.</p>
<p>He knew that he could transfer to UF, if he wanted, but he chose not, too. He had friends that did go to Gainesville and they said it’s a big, big party school. Also the campus is so spread out, that it is very inconvenient for those there without a vehicle. Also, it you visit there, you will see it’s not a beautiful university - almost seems like it was built as a commuter college. FSU is rich in tradition and the campus is beautiful.</p>
<p>He knows he can go to UF at anytime he wants now, but if there’s one thing he learned from the UF admissions staff, it is that class ranking is all important. When he graduates, this will again be an important factor to get the top jobs.</p>
<p>this thread is old as dirt.
but a) UF and FSU are about the same party-wise. FSU, however, has a reputation for being heavier on drugs other than alcohol. regardless, if you aren’t a partier, this is a non-issue because parties are easy to avoid.
b) uf does not look like a commuter school at all. i’ve never even heard that before.</p>
<p>finally, there is the option of requesting a change in terms. i imagine OP and above poster tried that though.</p>
<p>Informed-</p>
<p>Just curious, did your son go to Stanton Prep?</p>
<p>I hear lots of negative comments about Gainesville…here is a link to a NY Times piece that will put things into better persepective about what a great place it is.</p>
<p>[American</a> Journeys - Gainesville, Fla. - Home to the University of Florida, Museums, Gardens and Florida History - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/travel/escapes/06American.html]American”>http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/travel/escapes/06American.html)</p>
<p>The Florida Museum of National History is really cool. It’s actually the State of Florida’s official history museum.</p>