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The University of Florida gets the
award from The Guide to Colleges for Pregnant and Parenting Students
as the best college in the United States for teenage mothers.
Great College for pregnant and parenting
students! Our
top rated college for accessibility. College
moms, college dads, single mothers, teenage mothers and all pregnant
and parenting students take notice: *Excellent choice of Family
Housing, good housing prices and subsidized day care gives this
school our highest rating!! Housing:
renab@housing.ufl.edu |
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 Tallahassee, FL 32306-2400 850 644 6200 Financial aid phone: 850 644 5871 admissions@fsu.edu web: http://www.fsu.edu
With 791 furnished one, two and three bedroom apartments, Florida State University gets a good rating from us. That's not to say that with 30,519 total student population, we deem this a satisfactory percentage of family housing. Let's just say that Florida State University is better than average, but much in need of improvement. The family housing is one and a half mile from campus but the university provides reliable free shuttle bus service. The up side is there is a playground on the housing grounds; the down side is that AC is not provided, so count on this extra expense in Sunshineville, USA.
The day care center, the Alumni Village Child Development Center takes kids age 2.6 to 5.11 or kindergarden. Call early to get on the waiting list and to find out about subsidies (850 644-830). The University is enrolled in the Federal Subsidized Day Care Program so Pell recipients receive discounts and in some cases, free day care.
Don't be too put off by the party school reputation or all the football FSU Seminoles rah-rah-har-ness, liberal arts, especially political science, music, drama, dance and art. Physics, chemistry and biology departments have state of the art equipment and facilities. The computer science program is strong here along with impressive business and engineering schools. The School of Motion Picture, TV, and Recording Arts apparently is a newer and yet award winning department. If you get too bored you can sign up for the Honors Program, which offers smaller advanced classes. For more challenge try the Directed Individual Study courses in which you can participate in independent research projects. If you want to escape entirely you can participate in the foreign study centers in Florence or London, or escape the hot summer by signing up for the summer programs in France, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, the Czech Republic or Costa Rica.
Most (80%) of the students are from Florida and with the great low instate tuition cost: $1, 988, it makes perfect sense. Male/ female ratio is 45% to 55%. Twenty percent are members of faternities and sororities and only 18% live on-campus. The school is multicultural with 21% minorities. There is a Non-traditional Student Services office and a Multicultural Peer Facilitator Program.
Housing:
Phone: 850 644 6200
5800 Bay Shore Road Sarasota, FL. 34243 Phone 941 487 5000 Financial Aid Phone: 941 487 5001 Website: http://www.ncf.edu email: admissions@ucf.edu Tuition: $3,850 in state (2008) Out of state $20,575 Undergraduates 746 Experimental self motivated curriculum. Scholarships: All freshman are guaranteed scholarship funding.Special scholarhip funding for National Merit scholars, National Achievment scholars and National Hispanic scholars which includes full room and board and tuition.Bright Futures Progam offers full tuition scholarships based on high school grades and test scores.
4202 East Fowler Avenue SVC 1036 Tampa, FL 33620 Phone 813 974 3350 financial aid phone: 813 974 4700 website: http://www.usf.edu undergraduate population: 33,580 Tuition: $3,416 instate $16,115 out of state (2008-9) Scholarships: need based and merit based awards
P.O. Box 160111 Orlando, FL 32816 Phone: 407 823 3000 Financial aid phone: 407 823 2827 Website: http://www.ucf.edu email: admission@ucf.edu Tuition: $3,492 in state $17,017 out of state Scholarships: see financial aid office about merit and need based scholarships. Arts, minority scholarships and alumni awards. |
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by Katherine Arnoldi, author, The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom about her own struggle to attend college as a teen mom |
copyright by Katherine Arnoldi Contact us to submit stories about your experiences at college as a mom and to share information about the accessibility of your school contact: equalrightsformoms@yahoo.com |
