I don’t understand that one persons fixation with dorms. I personally turned down schools that required me to stay in the dorms (university of Miami), as did many of my friends. Sorority housing was way better and more fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Visited Florida last Spring. Beautiful campus and they are building several new buildings. Very diverse student body as well. Go Gators!

Beautiful campus? Really?

UF is good school, but aside from the small area near the Century Tower (that they always include in their press photos) it is not the most aesthetic campus.

-- Gator grad

Gator grad here as well- I thought it was beautiful. My spouse went to Penn State and I thought that was ugly. UF was pretty! There were a few ugly buildings like CLAS but the rest were brick and classic design.

Anonymous wrote:Visited Florida last Spring. Beautiful campus and they are building several new buildings. Very diverse student body as well. Go Gators!

Beautiful campus? Really?

UF is good school, but aside from the small area near the Century Tower (that they always include in their press photos) it is not the most aesthetic campus.

-- Gator grad

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

Sure, but those “dining dollars” run out after a few weeks. And the plan offered to nonresidents is pretty paltry.

No, no, no. Where are you getting this info? It’s completely false. Maybe if you are a huge eater who wants to gorge all day? And you can add money at any time if you truly want.

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Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

Sure, but those “dining dollars” run out after a few weeks. And the plan offered to nonresidents is pretty paltry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

np- They do work for off campus students who can also go to the dining halls. There is a very expensive plan with unlimited swipes and this specific one is NOT accessible to off campus students, but off campus (and really on campus) students would not have much use for it. It's too much dining hall food even for the typical on campus student. Nobody wants to go to the dining hall three times a day. You can combine whatever plan you get with money to spend at Starbucks and a bunch of other campus restaurants. But a lot of UF kids are very health conscious and make their own shakes, meals if they have a kitchen in addition to this. It's really not an issue in any way.

Thanks, this is helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

You can very limited meal plan if you live off campus, five meals per week in dining hall is the largest. There is a completely different set of options for on campus students. I don’t care much either way but someone up thread said on campus was no different than off campus for meal plan.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gator alums need to understand that other flagships don’t rely on online classes and actually have enough housing. A fun SEC school and taking better care of your students aren’t mutually exclusive. Do better UF![/quote]

I went to UF. No one wanted to live on campus. It was just something freshman did. I’m not sure how dorms =taking care of your students.

And the big online classes were just for intro level classes like Man’s Food or Microeconomics 101. By senior year I didn’t have any classes over 25. Most were taught in conference rooms with under 10 kids instead of lecture halls. [/quote]

By senior year? Is that suppose to be impressive? Class size under 50 is actually a stat that US News used in their ratings. Got rid of it for social mobility factors. In any case, Florida does poorly on this objective measure of class size comparatively.

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No one is making your kid apply to UF.

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This is utter BS
UF No one OOS should be apply that is just financially stupid.
1. Large classes are growing like weeds at UF they don't have enough professors for all sections. Engineering seniors and Accounting seniors are taking classes with over 150 kids and on video. The video thing I took Econ 101 with Dr Denslow in the 1980's 8 sections of video class one with him personally in a 300 person autoturium this has not changed since then except Denslow is gone.
2. No company out of state is hiring from UF moving forward. You have to be a complete idiot to pay OOS tuition to UF.Now if you want your kid living under king Desantis the criminal rules more power to you but your kid is not getting a good education any longer.

No worries, no interest. Anywhere with online classes is a non starter in our home.[/quote][/quote]

Ha, I had Denslow in the '80s. Loved the class.

Gainesville and UF itself remain blue even with DeSantis's Stormtroopers marching around.

[b]To be educated is to be liberal.[/b] So I have hope for the long term at UF.[/quote]

This is an idiotic statement.

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Anonymous wrote:Gator alums need to understand that other flagships don’t rely on online classes and actually have enough housing. A fun SEC school and taking better care of your students aren’t mutually exclusive. Do better UF!

UF has 54,000 students. 34,000 are undergrads.

Does any university have that much housing?

And why is it important that it's a dorm when the whole town is an extension of UF?

Isn’t Gainesville shitty?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gator alums need to understand that other flagships don’t rely on online classes and actually have enough housing. A fun SEC school and taking better care of your students aren’t mutually exclusive. Do better UF![/quote]

I went to UF. No one wanted to live on campus. It was just something freshman did. I’m not sure how dorms =taking care of your students.

And the big online classes were just for intro level classes like Man’s Food or Microeconomics 101. By senior year I didn’t have any classes over 25. Most were taught in conference rooms with under 10 kids instead of lecture halls. [/quote]

By senior year? Is that suppose to be impressive? Class size under 50 is actually a stat that US News used in their ratings. Got rid of it for social mobility factors. In any case, Florida does poorly on this objective measure of class size comparatively.

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No one is making your kid apply to UF.

[/quote]

This is utter BS
UF No one OOS should be apply that is just financially stupid.
1. Large classes are growing like weeds at UF they don't have enough professors for all sections. Engineering seniors and Accounting seniors are taking classes with over 150 kids and on video. The video thing I took Econ 101 with Dr Denslow in the 1980's 8 sections of video class one with him personally in a 300 person autoturium this has not changed since then except Denslow is gone.
2. No company out of state is hiring from UF moving forward. You have to be a complete idiot to pay OOS tuition to UF.Now if you want your kid living under king Desantis the criminal rules more power to you but your kid is not getting a good education any longer.

No worries, no interest. Anywhere with online classes is a non starter in our home.[/quote][/quote]

Ha, I had Denslow in the '80s. Loved the class.

Gainesville and UF itself remain blue even with DeSantis's Stormtroopers marching around.

To be educated is to be liberal. So I have hope for the long term at UF.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

np- They do work for off campus students who can also go to the dining halls. There is a very expensive plan with unlimited swipes and this specific one is NOT accessible to off campus students, but off campus (and really on campus) students would not have much use for it. It's too much dining hall food even for the typical on campus student. Nobody wants to go to the dining hall three times a day. You can combine whatever plan you get with money to spend at Starbucks and a bunch of other campus restaurants. But a lot of UF kids are very health conscious and make their own shakes, meals if they have a kitchen in addition to this. It's really not an issue in any way.

Anonymous wrote:A two second google search shows that students that live off campus are not offered the same unlimited meal plan as on campus students at Florida.

Not sure what info you found, but we recently did a tour of UF and our guide mentioned that you can still get meal plans if you live off campus. Apparently the meal plans work at many of the local restaurants and on campus food courts too. One student said she lives off campus and just uses her meal plan for the coffee shop (can't recall if it was starbucks or dunkin).

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gator alums need to understand that other flagships don’t rely on online classes and actually have enough housing. A fun SEC school and taking better care of your students aren’t mutually exclusive. Do better UF![/quote]

I went to UF. No one wanted to live on campus. It was just something freshman did. I’m not sure how dorms =taking care of your students.

And the big online classes were just for intro level classes like Man’s Food or Microeconomics 101. By senior year I didn’t have any classes over 25. Most were taught in conference rooms with under 10 kids instead of lecture halls. [/quote]

By senior year? Is that suppose to be impressive? Class size under 50 is actually a stat that US News used in their ratings. Got rid of it for social mobility factors. In any case, Florida does poorly on this objective measure of class size comparatively.

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No one is making your kid apply to UF.

[/quote]

This is utter BS
UF No one OOS should be apply that is just financially stupid.
1. Large classes are growing like weeds at UF they don't have enough professors for all sections. Engineering seniors and Accounting seniors are taking classes with over 150 kids and on video. The video thing I took Econ 101 with Dr Denslow in the 1980's 8 sections of video class one with him personally in a 300 person autoturium this has not changed since then except Denslow is gone.
2. No company out of state is hiring from UF moving forward. You have to be a complete idiot to pay OOS tuition to UF.Now if you want your kid living under king Desantis the criminal rules more power to you but your kid is not getting a good education any longer.

No worries, no interest. Anywhere with online classes is a non starter in our home.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gator alums need to understand that other flagships don’t rely on online classes and actually have enough housing. A fun SEC school and taking better care of your students aren’t mutually exclusive. Do better UF![/quote]

I went to UF. No one wanted to live on campus. It was just something freshman did. I’m not sure how dorms =taking care of your students.

And the big online classes were just for intro level classes like Man’s Food or Microeconomics 101. By senior year I didn’t have any classes over 25. Most were taught in conference rooms with under 10 kids instead of lecture halls. [/quote]

By senior year? Is that suppose to be impressive? Class size under 50 is actually a stat that US News used in their ratings. Got rid of it for social mobility factors. In any case, Florida does poorly on this objective measure of class size comparatively.

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You just keep digging a hole for yourself.

No one is making your kid apply to UF.

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No worries, no interest. Anywhere with online classes is a non starter in our home.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want your 18 year old to have zero adult supervision and none of the social programming in campus reaidential life, then agree, Florida is an acceptable choice for your family.

There is a reason, however, that T20 colleges have been building more and more on campus housing, including the uc schools.

Yes, it is because this generation of kids you and your peers raised are helpless and need hand holding and supervision, apparently.

Some kids want to be intellectually challenged in and out of class. A well developed residential college system provides that type of programming. It says a lot about you that you can’t grasp any pros to providing on campus housing.

NP- I think you are the one being obtuse. Off campus students are literally right next to campus. They have access to all the same clubs, student union, gyms, games, sports, dining halls, and the off campus residences have programming as well.

Apartment buildings are the same as dorms with RAs, facukty advisors, on site tutoring, and non alcohols based social programming.


Your better argument is to that some kids don’t care about those perks.

Many of the off-campus buildings at UF actually do have RAs. The activities provided by the buildings are NOT alcohol centric at all. They cannot be since many residents are underage and it would be against the law. As for tutors and advisors IN the dorms? I have never heard of this and went to college (a top 20 one) and lived in a dorm.

Things have changed in the past three decades. These are standard at top private colleges now.