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re: Are out of state colleges worth it?
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:30 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:30 pm to Pettifogger
This my daughter cannot get into UF living here in Florida. She has good grades and good test scores but not great. There are kids in her grade (one of the best public school) in Florida with great grades and test scores not getting in. We have no option but to go out of state unless we want her at USF, UCF, or UNF. We are looking all around the south and have a few places we have targeted further away.
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Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:33 pm to Tvilletiger
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This my daughter cannot get into UF living here in Florida. She has good grades and good test scores but not great. There are kids in her grade (one of the best public school) in Florida with great grades and test scores not getting in. We have no option but to go out of state unless we want her at USF, UCF, or UNF. We are looking all around the south and have a few places we have targeted further away.
This is the common scenario. My guess is that eventually UCF and USF will have degree programs comparable to "SEC schools" (if they don't already), but I'm not sure how long it'll be before the other characteristics are similar. I assume both still have a lot of older students, commuter students, etc. and those things really do change the experience.
That's the same as in GA where our equivalents are probably KSU and GSU. They're getting better and they're getting better quality students every year, but the other dynamics are still much different than UGA.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:44 pm to Tvilletiger
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We have no option but to go out of state unless we want her at USF, UCF
I think USF and UCF are terrific options at Florida in-state prices, especially with the State of Florida Bright Futures scholarship. USF recently became an AAU institution. Georgia can't say the same.
Don't feel bad about your daughter not being able to get into UF. Getting into the top state flagships at the most populated states (Texas, Florida, etc.) is a complete bloodbath. Kids with SATs in the upper 1400s, and sometimes into the 1500s, sometimes get rejected from UF. There were kids this year with SATs in the mid-1500s (I even saw a 1570 kid) who got rejected from CS, Engineering and Business at Texas (they were auto-admits to the school, but that doesn't give you certain majors). People without college aged kids have no idea how insane college admissions have become.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:55 pm to Tvilletiger
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This my daughter cannot get into UF living here in Florida. She has good grades and good test scores but not great. There are kids in her grade (one of the best public school) in Florida with great grades and test scores not getting in. We have no option but to go out of state unless we want her at USF, UCF, or UNF. We are looking all around the south and have a few places we have targeted further away.
Florida, and FSU to an extent, are insanely hard to get into these days. My daughter was rejected from UF, but was accepted to Georgetown, Colgate, Swarthmore, Carleton, and Davidson.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 7:41 pm to Tvilletiger
Still wondering if this LSU-S MBA is going to be "worth it". I do know that I will be one of very few in a very large pool at work that have an MBA. But my path to leadership where I am is still working for morons, while supervising morons. It's best I get out of this particular section of the company and around non-morons.
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