<p>serchingon:
"Miami has a beautiful campus and the city has become more, and more cosmopolitan. These two factors are a major advantage over Gainesville. The fact remains, UF does not not have a big name nor a big following and unfortunately is very underrated. The top students from South Florida either go to UMiami, or leave the state to attend other top rated universities. Those who go to UF is sadly, because they just can not afford UM, whihc is very expensive.</p>
<p>You can argue all you want about the quality of UF undergraduate education, however, if you look at Princeton Review’ Rankings, you do not get very good feed back about the school from their own students.( reputation as a party school, jock school with horrible dorms in a lousy college town )</p>
<p>So there are a bunch of rich kids in Miami, so what? For those of you that like to look at rankings so much, USNews listed UF only two slots above Miami, which means NOTHING." </p>
<p>I was born and raised in Miami Beach and can attest that the majority of UM students are either locals who allow the community to define their social lives (preferable ethnic demographic, nightlife, friends and whatnot), out-of-staters who simply want to be a part of the South Beach frenzy, and/or rich kids who couldn’t get into any prestigious schools yet have the networks to buy their way into the university. </p>
<p>Initially I had no idea how to respond to your assertion that UF doesn’t have a “name” or a “following”. There is no other university in Florida, and very few state universities in the country, that have as much tradition and pride as UF. </p>
<p>As for UF being “underrated”, I’m really curious about where you get this information because this is news to me. Last time I checked UF was the most selective university in Florida, followed by FSU and, I hear that due to their climbing academic standards, UCF. Who underates UF???</p>