Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 12:15     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
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Anonymous wrote:Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.


Having visited both Gainesville and Athens, I disagree. I liked both towns but prefer Gainesville to Athens. Gainesville is 1.5 hrs to Jacksonville & st Augustine, 2 hrs to Orlando and Tampa. It’s a great, central location.


Gainesville is very central, but do students at UF visit these places regularly?



Most college kids rarely leave the campus area, maybe one or two times a semester max.


That is not my experience. Maybe my friends and I are just more adventurous than most but we would leave campus and travel around the area almost every weekend.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 12:13     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.


Having visited both Gainesville and Athens, I disagree. I liked both towns but prefer Gainesville to Athens. Gainesville is 1.5 hrs to Jacksonville & st Augustine, 2 hrs to Orlando and Tampa. It’s a great, central location.


Gainesville is very central, but do students at UF visit these places regularly?



Most college kids rarely leave the campus area, maybe one or two times a semester max.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 12:12     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.


Georgia, better college town and doesn’t rely on online classes.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 12:08     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
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Anonymous wrote:Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.


Having visited both Gainesville and Athens, I disagree. I liked both towns but prefer Gainesville to Athens. Gainesville is 1.5 hrs to Jacksonville & st Augustine, 2 hrs to Orlando and Tampa. It’s a great, central location.


Gainesville is very central, but do students at UF visit these places regularly?


When I was a student at UF, we frequently went to St. Augustine beach on weekends just for a day trip. I also went w other students for weekend trips to Disney world, Tampa bay/St Petersburg, Dunedin/Tarpon Springs/Anastasia island, Sarasota/bradenton and many other weekend getaways. Also took a week long trip (spring break) where we drove down to the Keys. So, to answer your question: depends on the student of course but if have the $ and motivation to travel, YES!
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 12:00     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.


Having visited both Gainesville and Athens, I disagree. I liked both towns but prefer Gainesville to Athens. Gainesville is 1.5 hrs to Jacksonville & st Augustine, 2 hrs to Orlando and Tampa. It’s a great, central location.


Gainesville is very central, but do students at UF visit these places regularly?
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:59     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.


UF - no comparison. Usually, people will choose UGA when they cannot get into UF (or if they just want to live in Georgia).
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:28     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.


Having visited both Gainesville and Athens, I disagree. I liked both towns but prefer Gainesville to Athens. Gainesville is 1.5 hrs to Jacksonville & st Augustine, 2 hrs to Orlando and Tampa. It’s a great, central location.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:22     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
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Anonymous wrote:Shy kid with interest in humanities and social science. Cost of Attendance for each school.

Rice 15k
Berkeley 10k
UCLA 10k
UCSB 10k




Kind of an odd list because all of these schools are known for their strength in STEM, not humanities/ social science. Since your kid is shy, I’d go with Rice given its reputation for doing well with introverted students .

Um Berkeley and ucla are extremely strong and known for humanities/soc. sciences.

Yep. Berkeley's English program is right there with Yale at the tippy top and UCLA is usually among the top 10. I haven't checked other humanities or social science departments; just the one department that I know.
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Berkeley’s Classics department is phenomenal.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:20     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.


100% UF. Much better ranking and excellent career services and job placement outcome. Also, you should be proud to have gotten in as OOS-very low acceptance rate.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:18     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:Purdue 44k
UVA 49k
Northwestern 60k
Harvey Mudd 50k
Girl cs/ engineering


NU
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:13     Subject: Re:Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Slight lean to UGA, unless your student plans to stay in Florida after. Athens > Gainesville for college town, plus easy to get to Atlanta. Gainesville a couple hours or more to almost everything.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 11:07     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.


UF
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 10:48     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.


Chomp chomp!
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2024 10:40     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
University of Florida or University of Georgia for business/finance. Both out of state, both full pay at almost the same total cost.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 19:47     Subject: Let us pick for you…list acceptances
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Shy kid with interest in humanities and social science. Cost of Attendance for each school.

Rice 15k
Berkeley 10k
UCLA 10k
UCSB 10k




Kind of an odd list because all of these schools are known for their strength in STEM, not humanities/ social science. Since your kid is shy, I’d go with Rice given its reputation for doing well with introverted students .

Um Berkeley and ucla are extremely strong and known for humanities/soc. sciences. /quote]
Yep. Berkeley's English program is right there with Yale at the tippy top and UCLA is usually among the top 10. I haven't checked other humanities or social science departments; just the one department that I know.