<p>No, checks are not obsolete! My son must take one to his apt. office every month. They don't take debit cards!</p>
<p>Thank you GatorGuy for your words of insight and wisdom. Your sons are very lucky for the life's lessons you have provided to them on this subject, as well as to others here. </p>
<p>Do you have to pay cash for tuition in Texas & how much is it to go to the flagship out of pocket? Or do you have something like the Bright Futures Scholarship which covers the $4100 tuition for virtually every student in FL?</p>
<p>i'm still stuck on the fact that people from my school got in that:
1. believed that obama was a muslim.
2. asked the question their senior year:"are stars big planets?"
hard workers for you.</p>
<p>33 ACT
3.8 UF GPA (3.4 UW)</p>
<p>Will graduate with 6 APs (8 if US/Comp gov and Macro/Micro econ are separate). Admissions were definitely tougher this year. I know quite a few people with 3.4 UW and 30 ACTs that were rejected.
Rejected.</p>
<p>^^^^
not tougher. just weirder.</p>
<p>i think the lesson for applicants next year is, take a few APs and easy honors courses, get a slightly above average SAT score, and generally be a tool.
and this is the internet. maturity doesn't apply, nor does ethics.</p>
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<p>Yeah what an unbelievable statement by that guy. I have to use checks all the time to pay my apartment rent, among other things.</p>
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<p>We have to pay. No bright futures, plus - UT is extremely stingy with scholarships. My second son is a sophomore in the business school at UT. He was a valedictorian, high test scores, awards out the wazoo, many ec's with leadership, etc. He did not get one penny in merit scholarships from UT!!! </p>
<p>We pay (including tuition, fees, books, rent and food) around $20,000 per year. When you add in his fraternity dues, club sport dues and spending $$$, we are paying around $27,000 a year.</p>
<p>But, thanks to UF - my oldest son went to college for free, so we can afford UT for the 2nd (and hopefully 3rd if he can stay in the top 10%)! Oldest was an OOS NMF, and UF gave him a full ride plus stipend for rent and expenses... UT only offered him $4500 the 1st year and $3500 each additional year (stingy!). I don't think UF is as generous anymore, but even if they just waive OOS tuition, we'd be ahead. Florida's tuition is less than 1/2 the cost of UT's.</p>
<p>GO Gators (and Longhorns!!)</p>
<p>Oreo45 . . .</p>
<p>We're taking out PLUS loans for the son at Texas. There isn't anything like Bright Futures here in Texas, so we pay the full freight. Tuition and fees are about $6800. He had an offer for a full ride at UT Dallas, but was set on going to Texas and we're fortunate enough to be able to afford the student loan payments so he got to go where he wanted. </p>
<p>We'll obviously be paying a lot more than that for the younger son with out of state tuition at Florida. We'll pay it happily if somewhat painfully.</p>
<p>Gatorguy, curious - what is your son's major because my son's tuition and fees are over $8000 per year. I think tuition is major specific and I'm curious which majors are less. My younger son is looking at engineering and I'm hoping it's less than business.</p>
<p>Also, have you checked into UF waiving the oos tuition? (I'm sure you have, just wondering what the cutoff for that is now).</p>
<p>ag . . . He is in Natural Sciences doing a Neurobiology major. The tuition and fees will go up to about $8800 next year when he is in upper division courses.</p>
<p>I've not read anything on UF's website that indicates there is any way around paying the out of state.</p>
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<p>I've only heard it happening for NMF/NAF's.</p>
<p>ag54 & GatorGuyDallas,</p>
<p>I hope you all post on the UF message board more often. You all have good viewpoints on issues.</p>
<p>I noticed some comments on various State school's OOS admission percentages. In smaller states with major Universities, the local population may not supply enough quality students to make it self supporting. Therefore, a larger percentage of OOS are admitted. In some cases, such schools want a more diverse population of students. UF has a large Florida student population to select from. In addition, the want to keep as many quality student from the area to stay in FL in the long run. </p>
<p>Just a small correction from my first post, my son had a 33 (NOT 30) ACT, 4.0 GPA and 2140 SAT. Does not matter as e was still rejected.</p>
<p>1400 SAT
4.7 weighted GPA
Hispanic
REJECTED...</p>
<p>I got to school today to find kids with 1180's and 1210's accepted! </p>
<p>Wow...I am amazed</p>
<p>1400 SAT
4.7 weighted GPA
Hispanic
REJECTED...</p>
<p>I got to school today to find kids with 1180's and 1210's celebrating their acceptance in to UF! </p>
<p>Wow...I am shocked</p>
<p>ag54, you got screwed if your kids was a valedictorian in Texas and you got no merit scholarships at UT. Did you not realize that all valedictorians from accredited Texas schools are guaranteed a Freshman "tuition voucher," that makes their tuition free for the first year?</p>
<p>When you have 26 "valedictorians" at the high school (all A's in all AP/Honors), they don't give the tuition voucher to them all, so it didn't apply to my son. </p>
<p>We looked into it, and they will only do 1 per highschool. I never could get a straight answer from the highschool as to who the 1 was. But, considering my son was the kind of kid who figured out exactly what he needed to make to get an A, not to get the highest grade, I doubt he would have been the "chosen one" LOL</p>
<p>BTW, can you say "grade inflation"? I always thought that if the curriculum was such that 26 kids could make straight A's in all honors/Ap classes, the classes weren't hard enough! I will say though, that my son is doing beautifully at UT, so no complaints on the quality of the education he got. :)</p>
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<p>Yeah that is ridiculous. I'm sure those 26 kids didn't get all 4's or 5's on the AP exam either. A good idea one of my teachers had was to give a practice AP exam at the semester and a 4 or 5 was an A, a 2 or 3 was a B and a 1 was a C (for the grading period)</p>
<p>I don't know about the other kids, but my son got all 4's & 5's except for environmental science. He knew he wouldn't get credit for it at UT (they don't accept it), so he bubbled in all A's and drew pictures on the spaces for the essays. He hated the class, the teacher, and the content, and he used the test space as a protest for being forced to take the test (it is required in our school but that's a different gripe!). He got a 1 on that one. Screwed up his chances as National AP scholar, but by that time he didn't care, he was already in.</p>