Anonymous
Post 02/18/2025 00:59     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid got in and really wants to attend, but I'm trying to push him to attend in-state (so surprisingly the OOS cost isn't too much higher than going in-state). Anyone with personal experience? What are the pros and cons? Is it easy to get back and forth for breaks? I've heard that the dorms kind of suck (i.e. communal showers) - but that its sort of like a "right of passage."


Univ of Florida - Gators is a great school to attend. I did my Masters few years ago. Great campus, quality education, lot of companies coming for campus interviews, was and will be a great football team again (Go Gators), very reasonable OOS tuition, great weather. If you want to work in Florida there may not be that many jobs other than Miami / Ft Lauderdale area but Florida is always great. Also you are not too far from the Trumps


This

It’s very difficult to get in nowadays and has many strong colleges and majors.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 22:51     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Florida k-12 public education is not top notch. Expect those graduates to be your DC’s peers.



10th in the nation is pretty good actually.


Could you cite this source?


Why are you on this thread?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 22:43     Subject: Re:What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is a senior (actually graduated in 3.5 so she’s doing a masters for the rest of this year). Loves UF, it is competitive but she likes that big spirit school and picked it over VA schools and the price isn’t that different. There are lots of online business classes, but the students usually like those too.
We fly into mco usually bc cheapest, but Jax is closer. Theres more rental cars available there than at gnv too. Best hotels for location and ease are usually ac hotel and there’s one actually on campus. We usually pick a Hilton chain though (home2 or regular Hilton), drury is fine too but not as close to campus. The swamp restaurant is a hangout-ish place. Fun place to also see is depot park and 4th st food park.


Thank you! Exactly the kind of information that I was looking for. I did notice that UF is pretty generous in terms of accepting credits. My son will have about 45 credits going in. Also, what dorms did your daughter like? I also heard that there are many off campus apartments within walking distance.


UF is very generous with credits - your son can also CLEP credits prior to get even more gen eds out of the way. My daughter always did apts bc they were so close to the business school - social 28 (not the greatest but location was good) and the row (where she’s been the rest of the time) - I think kids like broward if social for dorms but all have some good and bad factors
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 22:39     Subject: Re:What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is a senior (actually graduated in 3.5 so she’s doing a masters for the rest of this year). Loves UF, it is competitive but she likes that big spirit school and picked it over VA schools and the price isn’t that different. There are lots of online business classes, but the students usually like those too.
We fly into mco usually bc cheapest, but Jax is closer. Theres more rental cars available there than at gnv too. Best hotels for location and ease are usually ac hotel and there’s one actually on campus. We usually pick a Hilton chain though (home2 or regular Hilton), drury is fine too but not as close to campus. The swamp restaurant is a hangout-ish place. Fun place to also see is depot park and 4th st food park.


Are there any shuttle buses from Orlando to UF? My DS will be a freshman there next year. We live in the Upper Midwest and concerned about him getting back and forth from the airport. What do most students do?


There’s no shuttle which stinks - it’s one of my biggest annoyances sending my daughter there - red coach bus picks up at UF and takes them to Orlando but you would still have to uber 5 mins to the airport; there are some drivers that the kids use to get to the airport and the out of state gators board on fb is good for pairing up kids with similar flight times to split costs of these drivers.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 22:37     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information about the nine credit hours of summer classes required? Can these be taken online, or do most students stay a summer to complete them?


The classes can be online. Also, it can be waived with a summer internship.
My daughter had an internship in DC so she never had to take classes in the summer.



My daughter also got them waived via summer internship - though lots do get them waived via summer study abroad which if we had to do over, would considered for bw freshman to sophomore summer.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 20:56     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Florida k-12 public education is not top notch. Expect those graduates to be your DC’s peers.



10th in the nation is pretty good actually.


Could you cite this source?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 20:17     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information about the nine credit hours of summer classes required? Can these be taken online, or do most students stay a summer to complete them?


The classes can be online. Also, it can be waived with a summer internship.
My daughter had an internship in DC so she never had to take classes in the summer.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 20:10     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Does anyone have information about the nine credit hours of summer classes required? Can these be taken online, or do most students stay a summer to complete them?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 18:39     Subject: Re:What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is a senior (actually graduated in 3.5 so she’s doing a masters for the rest of this year). Loves UF, it is competitive but she likes that big spirit school and picked it over VA schools and the price isn’t that different. There are lots of online business classes, but the students usually like those too.
We fly into mco usually bc cheapest, but Jax is closer. Theres more rental cars available there than at gnv too. Best hotels for location and ease are usually ac hotel and there’s one actually on campus. We usually pick a Hilton chain though (home2 or regular Hilton), drury is fine too but not as close to campus. The swamp restaurant is a hangout-ish place. Fun place to also see is depot park and 4th st food park.


Are there any shuttle buses from Orlando to UF? My DS will be a freshman there next year. We live in the Upper Midwest and concerned about him getting back and forth from the airport. What do most students do?
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 18:20     Subject: Re:What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:My daughter is a senior (actually graduated in 3.5 so she’s doing a masters for the rest of this year). Loves UF, it is competitive but she likes that big spirit school and picked it over VA schools and the price isn’t that different. There are lots of online business classes, but the students usually like those too.
We fly into mco usually bc cheapest, but Jax is closer. Theres more rental cars available there than at gnv too. Best hotels for location and ease are usually ac hotel and there’s one actually on campus. We usually pick a Hilton chain though (home2 or regular Hilton), drury is fine too but not as close to campus. The swamp restaurant is a hangout-ish place. Fun place to also see is depot park and 4th st food park.


Thank you! Exactly the kind of information that I was looking for. I did notice that UF is pretty generous in terms of accepting credits. My son will have about 45 credits going in. Also, what dorms did your daughter like? I also heard that there are many off campus apartments within walking distance.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 17:49     Subject: Re:What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
My daughter is a senior (actually graduated in 3.5 so she’s doing a masters for the rest of this year). Loves UF, it is competitive but she likes that big spirit school and picked it over VA schools and the price isn’t that different. There are lots of online business classes, but the students usually like those too.
We fly into mco usually bc cheapest, but Jax is closer. Theres more rental cars available there than at gnv too. Best hotels for location and ease are usually ac hotel and there’s one actually on campus. We usually pick a Hilton chain though (home2 or regular Hilton), drury is fine too but not as close to campus. The swamp restaurant is a hangout-ish place. Fun place to also see is depot park and 4th st food park.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 16:58     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Overated, way too reliant on online learning. Also question state’s current commitment to maintaining same level of funding.


I’ve heard about the whole first year online, but is this common otherwise and what about at other flagships? This would really bother me.

They have had online learning ie televised classes at UF since the 90s
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 16:53     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
I remember reading somewhere that UF is really good for kids who want to get into AI. I think UF is the only school to have a supercomputer. Also, UF has tons of AI courses.
Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 16:43     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are like multiple threads on UF. Just search. The out of state tuition is phenomenal for a public ivie. If OP is real, congrats on acceptance!


ivie?

are you dumb?


He said "Public Ivies". Forbes calls it the "Ivies"

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/forbes-releases-list-of-new-ivies-with-multiple-colleges-from-the-midwest-making-the-cut/3429809/

Anonymous
Post 02/17/2025 16:38     Subject: What are everyone's thoughts on UF (University of Florida)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Florida k-12 public education is not top notch. Expect those graduates to be your DC’s peers.



10th in the nation is pretty good actually.


He or She knew. They are just trying to be political. There is a lot of that in this forum.