Florida culture

[Anonymous]

What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Old saying is the further north you go in Florida, the further south you end up.

[Anonymous]

It's ick, I just couldn't, not our thing at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's ick, I just couldn't, not our thing at all.

Thank you for the insightful response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Old saying is the further north you go in Florida, the further south you end up.

Yeah, but Gainesville is like this little island of diversity and intellectualism -- the student body and professors come from everywhere.
But they are football obsessed, so that feels like the South.

Tallahasee is actually a surprisingly cute and funky little town.

I think SOuth Fl and Central FL feel more like Florida schools -- they aren't pulling as much from other areas.

[Anonymous]

Lots of online classes compared to other state systems. Even regular "in person" majors often require online classes. Read a story about a student at UCF on FB who had 1 class every two weeks in person, the other 4 out of 5 classes were fully remote. Parent was concerned that they never left their dorm room, made no friends, and just played video games day and night in between logging into zooms.

I'd pull my kid if that was the situation... so just watch out for that. Not sure if it's specific majors, but FL does not fund their schools well, even though they game the stats/rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Old saying is the further north you go in Florida, the further south you end up.

Yeah, but Gainesville is like this little island of diversity and intellectualism -- the student body and professors come from everywhere.
But they are football obsessed, so that feels like the South.

Tallahasee is actually a surprisingly cute and funky little town.

I think SOuth Fl and Central FL feel more like Florida schools -- they aren't pulling as much from other areas.

UF (Gainesville) likes IBDP HS grads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Old saying is the further north you go in Florida, the further south you end up.

Yeah, but Gainesville is like this little island of diversity and intellectualism -- the student body and professors come from everywhere.
But they are football obsessed, so that feels like the South.

Tallahasee is actually a surprisingly cute and funky little town.

I think SOuth Fl and Central FL feel more like Florida schools -- they aren't pulling as much from other areas.

UF (Gainesville) likes IBDP HS grads

Meaning there are academic kids like at all large state flagships

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Old saying is the further north you go in Florida, the further south you end up.

Yeah, but Gainesville is like this little island of diversity and intellectualism -- the student body and professors come from everywhere.
But they are football obsessed, so that feels like the South.

Tallahasee is actually a surprisingly cute and funky little town.

I think SOuth Fl and Central FL feel more like Florida schools -- they aren't pulling as much from other areas.

UF (Gainesville) likes IBDP HS grads

And football

[Anonymous]

U of Florida is still top ranked and offers an excellent education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ick, I just couldn't, not our thing at all.

Thank you for the insightful response.

+1 comments like that are juvenile and waste everyone’s time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the culture at each of the FL public colleges? Univ of FL, South FL, FL State, Univ of Central FL? Etc.

Mine goes to UCF and finds it down to earth and friendly. Nice campus and surrounding area. Lots of kids work in addition to going to classes. What do you want to know about? It’s a large school but it feels homey, and is very walkable. And the campus is surrounded by tons of apartment complexes geared to students. Quite a few are just a short walk to campus across the street.

UF- visited but none of my kids liked it, but couldn’t put their finger on why. Area is meh. Lots of Vesper scooters and traffic on campus. The kids we know who went there were more into fraternity type life and parties than mine, and they like it there.

FSU- surrounding area doesn’t feel safe and wasn’t a place mine would want to walk around in. I know many find the campus beautiful, but it didn’t appeal to us. Kids we know there seem to enjoy it.

USF- not a pretty campus imo and it seems to have more true commuters (kids living at home) than others, and a very international feel. But that’s only surface level feedback; I’m not that familiar with it though we visited a couple times.

[Anonymous]

Alligators and pythons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's ick, I just couldn't, not our thing at all.

Then keep staying in your bubble, until it finally bursts that is!

[Anonymous]

Super intense
Nerdy study only types
Lots of competitive pressure
All nighters on labs