<p>If it were all I cared about I could probably graduate this Fall. However, I would like to stay at least a year longer for a number of reasons. I know that as an in state student they want to get me out of here ASAP, but if I am flying under the radar I don’t want to bring this to their attention by asking any advisors or anything like that. </p>
<p>Does anyone know someone who was “graduated?” I have 4 classes to finish to qualify for a degree, but will try not to finish them until I’m ready. Would they just put a ton of holds on you to force you to take the right schedule? If this is going to happen I’d like to know about it in advance so I can plan optimally.</p>
<p>they aren’t going to force you to take classes in a certain semester unless they’re critical tracking afaik. solution: save one of your required classes for your final semester.</p>
<p>your timeline is unclear though. how many semesters have you been here? are you saying you want to stay for another 2 semesters?</p>
<p>if all you want to do is stay for another 2 semesters, just take 12 credits in the fall, then you can get special permission to be considered full-time (for financial aid purposes) in the spring while only taking 3 credits–as long as its your graduating semester.</p>
<p>All of this is very complicated and convoluted and also depends on what majors/minors you have declared, when you have declared them, and the corresponding College and program you are a student in. There are certain credit hour limits when it comes not only to enrollment but also to receiving federal financial aid and state financial aid (which are different sources of funding with their own requirements). UF may not ‘force’ you to graduate per say but some students may feel that way because of a cap/limit on hours to recieve federal financial aid. And then others may be forced out because they just are not meeting tracking criteria. It all depends.</p>
<p>Familiarize yourself with the terms “hours carried” “hours attempted” “hours earned” and other relevant terminology and try to figure out how they relate to your own unique situation. Read as many sets of requirements and rules (and make sure they are up to date) as you can which are provided online either at the student financial affairs website or your department/program’s website for your degree. THEN go to an ADVISOR in your department, then a student financial affairs advisor in Criser Hall, and then . </p>
<p>I would take everything you hear on this website with a grain of salt because it is all made up of either n = 1 anecdotes, peope guessing, or people providing out of date info. While you do make a good point that, yes, in general, UF forces the in state students to graduate ASAP, the situations are VERY heterogeneous and it depends on who you are, what you have done, what you are doing, and how you handle it. </p>
<p>I would advise you to seek multiple opinions and don’t just believe what one Univ admin tells you. There are days when I go to Criser Hall with a single question and get 3 different answers from 3 different people sitting behind 3 parts of the same desk in the same department. I do not think most of them know what they are doing. Stick with the ones who demonstrate that they are informed. Don’t be afraid to question if they have handled similar situations before. This question/issue is actually something I would even approach a Dean about if I were not getting the kinds of answers/action I wanted. </p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
<p>I took ~ 2years off and don’t get Bright Futures, although I think they still lose money on me. I want to stay at least 3 semesters primarily to have a chance to get internships that are almost impossible to get after graduation, because I think I’ll have a hell of a time finding a job without one. I’d like to at least attempt a math minor and if I have nothing going on by that point it might be worth staying one last semester to finish up the double major. I have some red flags on my resume and the longer school goes on the further I get from those flags before I start constructing new ones by graduating without a job.</p>
<p>when i applied for my double major, they were very explicit about telling me i wouldn’t be able to register for classes relating to the new minor past my 4th spring semester. there would be a hold on my registration that basically said ‘game over’. I don’t expect that they would grant you another degree/minor/certificate if it meant you had to stay for a semester longer than necessary.</p>
<p>Just be careful and make sure you clear all your bases. I was in CLAS as a transfer student, and I did two years and was 12 hours from graduating from my major when they cut off my financial aid and set a timeline requirement for me to finish that upcoming fall. This stopped me from continuing to seek my double major plus I had no way to pay for the remainder off my classes. I decided to transfer to FSU. Sadly I won’t graduate from UF, but at least my credentials/gpa will increase drastically when I finish FSU. </p>
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<p>Why do you want to graduate?</p>