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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone actually had their kid attend UF?  If so, what was your experience like? [/quote]
Yep, DS, loves it. Engineering major. Junior, has summer job in Orlando making $55 per hour. Very active in student government and recreational sports. Professors are very helpful and engaged. Always available for office hours-UF takes office hours very seriously. Downsides to UF-dorms are terrible, super competitive vibe and very hard with sink or swim weed classes way more than other schools, hard to travel to Gainesville, classes can be hard to get in for desired time or professor, lots of kids into sports (downside if your kid isn’t), parking is atrocious. But again, my kid absolutely loves it. [/quote]

Considering the schedule my senior will be leaving behind in HS (6-8 classes / day, unrelenting pressure to maintain a perfect GPA, pressure to stick the landing with a perfect SAT score, varsity sports and navigating the ups and downs of the D1 recruitment process, competing for playing time on a travel team that plays nationally, specialized coaching related to his sport(s), strength and conditioning training, 3-4 school clubs, volunteering with 2-3 organizations, interning during the school year in research labs at our local university, holding a part-time job, etc.), it’s frankly unfathomable how college would be capable of presenting a more “super competitive” environment. Respectfully, it’s my experience that undergraduate life is a relative breeze after HS for most achievement oriented students.[/quote]

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