Reply to What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My kid was accepted at UF Honors (also FSU Honors), and he's going elsewhere, abroad actually, simply because... what was an argument for leaving Florida is now an argument for leaving the US. That said, the UF-bashing on this thread is ridiculous. Florida is a huge state, with many smart and ambitious students. Moreover, the Bright Futures program makes in-state tuition entirely free for them, so there's a huge incentive to stay in-state. Florida and now US politics give good reasons to go elsewhere, but not because the kids are dumb! I worry about academic free speech (FL's ridiculous 'stop woke' act may be reinstated, and the idea that prof speech is 'government speech' is truly scary) and science funding (everywhere in the US), and my kid hates the UF campus (which is a huge sprawl, though with some pretty bits) and Gainesville (which seems nothing like the nicer US college towns). But there's every reason to think that students and faculty are excellent at FL, and my kid would probably be going there (hard to turn down free tuition!) were it not for the political changes of the past five years (and especially the past five weeks).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics