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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

Exactly. We're talking about how those three schools are elite peers now, not what the college admissions landscape looked like in 1982!

Even now, no one perceives UF to be a peer of UNC or UT. It’s a tier below with UGA.

Your kid goes to UGA apparently?

Life is so not fair. Some states (e.g., CA, MI, NC, FL, TX, VA) have amazing flagships, whereas others like Georgia has crappy ones

Nope my kids go to none of these (both enrolled at T30 private colleges), so, unlike you, I can be completely objective. But since you brought it up, GaTech also a tier above UF.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

Exactly. We're talking about how those three schools are elite peers now, not what the college admissions landscape looked like in 1982!

Even now, no one perceives UF to be a peer of UNC or UT. It’s a tier below with UGA.

Your kid goes to UGA apparently?

Life is so not fair. Some states (e.g., CA, MI, NC, FL, TX, VA) have amazing flagships, whereas others like Georgia has crappy ones

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

Exactly. We're talking about how those three schools are elite peers now, not what the college admissions landscape looked like in 1982!

Even now, no one perceives UF to be a peer of UNC or UT. It’s a tier below with UGA.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

Exactly. We're talking about how those three schools are elite peers now, not what the college admissions landscape looked like in 1982!

Even now, no one perceives UF to be a peer of UNC or UT. It’s a tier below with UGA.

Anonymous wrote:Are any of these schools know for strong alumni networks for seniors job searching? If so are they instate, regional or national?

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Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

But why would you want to network with these uninformed idiots anyway?

You do know that UT and UF have perhaps the most progressive admissions and financial aid programs, respectively, of any universities in the US, right?

So either you hate minorities and the middle class, or it’s you who is uninformed. Which is it?

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

Exactly. We're talking about how those three schools are elite peers now, not what the college admissions landscape looked like in 1982!

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

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Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

But why would you want to network with these uninformed idiots anyway?

Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are all quality flagship schools, I would go for the cheapest coa. Personally I would rank them UNC, UT, UF in terms of "perceived" prestige.

FWIW all those schools are party schools if that is your thing. UF was known for many years for its ready supply of illegal drugs as well as the usual alcohol. I think that perception has changed but who knows....here is a 1982 "typical" day time throwdown at UF!!!!!!!!!!!! Do these look like top shelf scholar types?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F78XV6fjxCE

You could step off the short bus into any of those schools in 1982. Even Ivies like Penn had a 50% acceptance rate then. And while they've gotten orders of magnitude more selective since then, they're all still massive party schools. Check out Franklin St in Chapel Hill right after the Heels beat Duke in basketball. Those students in that moment aren't going to look like "top shelf scholar types" either. UF can hold its own against UT-Austin and UNC. They're all equally elite.

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Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

This just isn't true. UF grads have great employment options in NYC and other major job hub areas, on par with UNC and UT.

Some posters on this board post a lot of false statements about Florida because they hate DeSantis and hate that Florida went for Trump.

Nope, we just know people outside Florida think of it as a party school, not on par academically with the other two.

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Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

This just isn't true. UF grads have great employment options in NYC and other major job hub areas, on par with UNC and UT.

Some posters on this board post a lot of false statements about Florida because they hate DeSantis and hate that Florida went for Trump.

? TX and NC also went for Trump, and a lot of posters hate Abbott, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Regionally they are all similar. Nationally UNC has the best network but UT is also very good at national level. UF is still seen as a "party" school by many outside of Florida.

This just isn't true. UF grads have great employment options in NYC and other major job hub areas, on par with UNC and UT.

Some posters on this board post a lot of false statements about Florida because they hate DeSantis and hate that Florida went for Trump.