<p>That's helpful, thanks!! ;) Is the club area safe? (sorry for all these questions lol)</p>
<p>The strip is a very commercial area where there are 24 hr fast food restauarants open, clubs, grocery stores, etc. It's pretty safe, but you need to BE SAFE and travel in groups. The Night Nole bus helps. There are taxi's that are easy to be had.</p>
<p>When you turn 21 there is a tradition that you take the "Tennessee Waltz" and go club hopping along Tennessee or even clubs off Tennessee. </p>
<p>Most of the clubs admit 18yo's, you just can't drink. So the Waltz is to celebrate being able to go to the clubs and "partake." </p>
<p>There is plenty of night life around the campus. I think too much!!! You can go clubbing Mon-Sat. And clubbing seems to start late and go until the wee hours of the morning. Things seem to get going around 10 pm and go till 2-3 in the morning. </p>
<p>You'll need to set priorities, and not get caught up in the party scene at the expense of your academics. I think sometimes freshman get there and have so much freedom that they get into some grade trouble. My daughter is seeing some kids in her dorm who thought they could party all week and still have no problem studying. Some of them are realizing that they are in a little hot water!?!?</p>
<p>Oh of course..I only plan to go clubbing 1-2 times a week, on days when I don't have class the next morning, so it won't hurt my studying. I don't even care about drinking, I just like to go dance. ;)</p>
<p>lol, the Night Nole (I call it the drunk taxi) is such a big help. Even if you aren't going to clubs or anything like that. It'll take you to or around 90% of the apartments. I take it every week to go to my friends apartment and without it I'd be so lost. But if you're walking around the town at night, you'll want to do that in a group or something because regardless of the area, anything can happen.</p>
<p>thanks! lol, i was about to post my stats and ask how high of a chance i had but i guess that was my OP. haha.
i'm getting so nervous. before I knew for a fact that new college was my top choice and fsu would be 2nd. but now i don't know. i want to do either criminal justice/law or be an english prof, but i can't pick. fsu has great programs with both. there's so many things i could get at a big uni that i couldn't get at ncf, but there's so many things i can get at ncf that i couldn't get anywhere else. and i'm stuck. lol. but i guess i shouldn't worry too much, just see where i get in then decide...if only one of those schools wants me then it will be an easy choice ;)</p>
<p>Wow! I would think the environments are completely different at NCF vs FSU.
You will probably get admitted to both and you really need to decide whether you want the small make your own curriculum college or the big university with longtime traditions, clubs and athletics experience. Go visit both and see which is a better fit for you.</p>
<p>I used to be sure it was NCF. Now I"m thinking FSU. I definitely have to check both out. It would be easier if they were more similar - example, FSU vs UF - because then I could just see which had more in my areas of interest. But it's harder when they're so drastically different like NCF/FSU. I don't know which lifestyle I'd want, and I'd worry that either way I'd miss out on the other..idk.</p>
<p>I don't mean to change the subject but your acceptance rates at the beginning of the thread are off quite a bit. The University of Florida announced their Fall 2008 acceptance rate at 36% (their lowest in history). At the same time, the University of Central Florida posted a 38% acceptance rate (also their lowest ever) for Fall 2008. Florida State University has yet to release their preliminary acceptance rate for Fall 2008, although an article released several weeks ago suggested that it had dropped to 36% for FSU. With the state budget cuts forcing some schools (UF, FSU) to cut the size of their incoming freshman classes, more students have been applying to other, younger state schools. I believe the University of South Florida also posted a record acceptance rate, although I'm not exactly well versed on USF, as I was never enrolled there.</p>
<p>GradBoy</p>
<p>Thanks for the acceptance rate info. It looks as if the current applicants will be in for an even more competitive situation than the 2008 group.</p>
<p>It's like a pyramid in terms of how cutting freshmen enrollment at FSU & UF will change the landscape of the big picture. The 2,000 FTIC freshmen cut who would have normally attend one of the Big Name Research Universities (ie: UF & FSU) will now have to attend one of the growing Urban Universities. In turn those 2,000 spots taken up that would of normally been granted to the bottom 25% of UCF, USF, FIU, and FAU will then have to find admission in one of the smaller public Florida universities (ie: UNF, UWF, FGCU, and FAMU). These institutons will have the choice of bloating up their incoming FTIC classes or they will deny admission to students who need remediation and the market will force the layover to attend the Florida Community Colleges that will now start offering 4 year Bachelor degrees. Makes sense doesn't it?</p>
<p>UCF is only 38%?? Wow, I considered it to be a safety school. I got in 2 weeks after I applied. I thought their rate was more like 60-70%. Weird...
I guess that makes me feel better about my stats and FSU??</p>
<p>The Freshman Profile page on UCF's web does show the 38%. I'm surprised by that too. So far, my D and all her friends who have applied have been accepted.</p>
<p>FIU has an acceptance rate of around 44%, but that still doesn't make it a good university. Flagler College has an acceptance rate in the 20's, which I find laughable.</p>
<p>Acceptance Rate can be deceiving. I judge the quality of the incoming FTIC students on their statistics. Clearly FSU, beat out UCF last year by a very good margin in their last incoming class. This year I am expecting FSU to jump in the rankings because of the quality of this next year's class (which is being reduced by 1,000) and the Tuition Differential money.</p>
<p>SSobick</p>
<p>Why will the Tuition Differential money make FSU rise in the rankings? Will it help student to teacher ratios?</p>
<p>For Fall 2007 Florida State's student-to-faculty ratio is 21.3 to 1. UF's is 21.7 to 1 for the same period.</p>
<p>"Why will the Tuition Differential money make FSU rise in the rankings? Will it help student to teacher ratios?"</p>
<p>Yes, FSU & UF should impove on the student-to-faculty ratio in the years to come. You see the law requires that the money must be used to hire more faculty, and student advisors.</p>
<p>Wait, now I'm confused...I don't understand what we're talking about now ;)</p>
<p>To the OP: Honestly, I think you are going to get in. I didn't get the best grades (I got 4.1W, 3.13UW) or SAT score (My total M+W+R score was 1620) and I got accepted.</p>
<p>^That is no guarantee. Someone else received a high SAT (e.g. a 1420/1600) and had supposedly reasonable grades but was deferred.</p>
<p>I got in!! YaY!! And thanks!!</p>