Thank you so much. I will encourage her to write a letter. She has an offer for Honors and a substantial scholarship from UTK, so it really comes down to these 2 schools. We visited FSU last week and loved it.
Best of luck to your daughter at Notre Dame! That’s quite an accomplishment.
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Where are you staying? Collegetown is a great place that is convenient and has restaurants and cute little shops. The tour was great when we did it in the fall. My son is at UF and the FSU tour was definitely better!
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If you are doing the admitted student tour, they will give you a meal voucher. So you should try to grab a meal on campus to see what its like. They also give you a swag bag with Nole socks and some stickers.
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100% agree that the FSU tour is better, even though we will most likely be committing to UF. In our tour group, we had 3 guides - one, who was leading us to the next location, and two, who were purposely mingling with the students. I also thought that the presentation at the beginning of the tour was better than the UF one.
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There wasn’t an option for admitted student tours. It appears they don’t have one specifically for that. Hopefully they will pull the admitted kids aside at the beginning…I have seen that done that at a few other schools. I am so glad you guys had a good experience while there.
That’s exactly what they do. We were in a smaller group than the regular tour group. They will know which group you belong to when you check in.
Son was admitted today, applied after Dec 1st…
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Congratulations!!!
My kiddo got in today for Fall…. she was so unbelievably excited about Florida State after our visit this summer, but I think that excitement wore off as the months dragged on…. She was previously deferred
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Did anyone who got in today receive a scholarship
My D24 was considering doing her FYA and we were just wondering how competitive the program acceptances are for each location. Have any of y’all heard of students being rejected from the FYA program?
S21 did FYA Florence and then transferred to Valencia for the summer.
It was rolling admission in 21, I don’t think they denied anyone there was about 100 i think in Florence, and closer to 200 for the summer in Valencia
It is a great program, he made great friends and was an amazing experience living in Europe for 11 months.
Let me know if you have any questions
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Has anyone else noticed the large number of instagram posts from students planning to attend TCC and then transfer to FSU? I’m keep telling my DD to ignore these posts since they’re not representative of the overall student body, but it sounds like TCC is an 11,000 student community college right next to FSU that acts sort of like a “back-door” to FSU admissions…by basically allowing anyone with a 3.0 GPA to transfer to FSU after a few years. I have nothing against giving CC students who work hard a path into FSU, but it seems odd that freshman admissions are so competitive, yet it seems so easy to walk in as a CC transfer. Just curious if anyone has inside knowledge into how intertwined TCC and FSU really are?
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When we did the tour we ate at the Champions Club before the tour which had a cool view of the stadium. It requires a reservation and doing a tour gives you access. Food was ok, but neat place to see.
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There is a spring transfer option offered to students who applied for first year admission.
Seems like this is pretty common in Florida. FSU has this and UF has santa fe which basically advertises themselves as a UF backdoor.
I believe they have to apply directly to FSU and be invited by FSU to start at TCC. They can’t just go directly to TCC (not appling to FSU) and then transfer in.
UF has a similar option thru Sante Fe College and State College of Florida, and you only have to maintain a overall 2.0 GPA and 2.5 for certain major specific courses. I had to do a double take, like did they actually mean 3.0 and 3.5?
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Applied to UF as a freshman, denied by UF Admissions, reviewed by HWCOE, invited to UF’s partnership program with Santa Fe College (UF site)
Note that this is an invitation only program and only for specific engineering majors.
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Gator Engineering at Santa Fe - Undergraduate Student Affairs (ufl.edu)
Yes, just like FSU’s program, you have to be invited, in this case by UF’s HWCOE.
I was busy editing probably–sorry about that. Note though that the program is invitation only for specific engineering majors for students who first applied directly to UF for admission.
Arrgh. Did it again. FWIW–too many people think that “I’ll just go to Sante Fe and get in”. That’s not the way it works.
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