<p>Does anyone know if the University has released the 2007 admission statistics?</p>
<p>It doesn't really matter. They basically threw all applications into two piles and only looked at one of them. So many people got rejected who shouldn't have.</p>
<p>lol don't you think that's a little unfair?</p>
<p>I would expect the statistics to not be that different from previous years, I don't know when they release those statistics.</p>
<p>you know what i heard.....someone told me that if they have a bunch of applicants with similar stats then it's just a lottery admission. or something along those lines. is that true? how do they differentiate b/t students who have the same stats? i dunno... i was just curious =)</p>
<p>yay go UF'11</p>
<p>I <em>highly</em> doubt that. They'll look at their essays, recs, and other ec's to differentiate between applicants.</p>
<p>i love it how people who talk crap about the admissions are those that got rejected. angry haha</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't see why people keep posting on the UF specific forums if they got rejected. It's just rude and vindictive.</p>
<p>i find it a little amusing actually. you'd think that if you got rejected you go down with honor</p>
<p>I love that people give themselves the honor of assuming whether or not someone should or shouldn't have gotten in. </p>
<p>You can't just base it on quantitative data ("My friend had a 1500/4.0! And someone with lower scores got in! Unfair!"). You can't assume you know the personal history of someone who may just have lower stats because of personal circumstances, learning impediments, or a person can simply be a bad test taker. You haven't gone through every persons files, read their essays, viewed their recommendations. Admissions definitely has a holistic factor in it.</p>
<p>Oh, and my personal favorite? "You only got in because you're an URM."</p>
<p>Please go nurse your wounds elsewhere. You don't need to bring down everyone else with you.</p>
<p>Well im not here to talk s*** about the university but I would really want to see some stats for RD2, broken down by quantifiable statistics, and an admission rate, mainly to offer advice to my junior friends who will be applying next year, not for me, since i wont be going there.</p>
<p>um.....i was accepted like last year in dec. but okay!</p>
<p>I was only really referring to erhswimming and other people scattered in the UF boards, not you two.</p>
<p>Um...I actually got accepted for the record. I'm talking about they disparity at my school, it was so weird who got accepted/rejected. I'm not going though, going to Rollins instead. I'm not trying to bash on UF itself, just the admissions. People on here with 1400/3.8+ stats should not have been rejected over kids with low stats like 1090/3.5 (some kids at my school got accepted with that). I'm only advocating for others.</p>
<p>And for schools that I got rejected at (Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, JHU) I am not talking crap like this. There are simply too many applicants for too many spots, and who gets accepted/rejected actually seems a lot more understandable. Only truly deserving people got in there.</p>
<p>"And for schools that I got rejected at (Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, JHU) I am not talking crap like this. There are simply too many applicants for too many spots, and who gets accepted/rejected actually seems a lot more understandable. Only truly deserving people got in there."</p>
<p>That's not entirely true, some of the legacies that get in are laughable and they really do take up spots that should go to more deserving candidates (i'm pointing at Princeton and Yale as I type this). </p>
<p>As for some of the people with low stats, a good number of them probably had something holistically that made up for them.</p>
<p>Even if someone has a 1600 or a 36 ACT, they aren't guaranteed admission. I think UF started focusing less on test scores this year and more on the application as a whole.</p>
<p>Yeah I went three years ago to an alumni admission session and they said that they have seen and will pass up someone with a 4.0 and admit somone with a lower g.p.a if they have a better essay, etc.</p>
<p>That said, I know for a fact that at least three of the seven kids that got in at my school didnt deserve to get in. One had a really bad essay, and all three had no e.c. This is enough to make even me mad, even though I was accepted too. </p>
<p>Also, on the Ivy school thing, my friend just got rejected from Columbia yet they let someone with a 3.1 in simply because his dad knew someone on the board. The whole thing is really frustrating.</p>
<p>ooh you're going to rollins? rollins is a pretty school! i didn't apply..even though my app fee was waived cuz i went there for this thing or wahtever. it's soo pretty! i love it there.</p>
<p>As far as admissions go, I've got to agree with "vb0515" on basically all of this. Many of the people who complain about UF's acceptances and whatnot are those who have been rejected.
As far as "people with really good scores & gpa" who deserved to get in and didn't... there is definitely a holistic review of the applications. If you have good scores and a crappy essay with no e.c.'s, what the hell do you expect? If you have lower scores & a lower GPA but your essay and e.c.'s are amazing, you're more likely to get in. Also, REMEMBER LEGACY. Having family attending the school also adds to it.
Also, there are SO MANY APPLICANTS to UF that it's ridiculous. So mentioning ivies and whatnot and their high applicant numbers means nothing. It's a public school. Thousands of applicants. Even more applicants since "everyone wants to be a winner" and so they apply to a school with national champion teams.
As for those kids who think they deserved to get in because they work harder than some kid that did? That means nothing if their GPA and SAT/ACT scores are lower than the not-so-hard worker. UF doesn't see the kids working, they see the scores... they see what's on paper.
Also, you have to consider the fact that the reason why so many people got rejected or wait-listed for UF for RDII because they accepted a really high number of kids for ED and RDI.
So, for those of you bitter kids that didn't get in... get over it. You didn't. End of story. For those who were accepted, congrats. As for those complaining just because you think it's "just not fair," nothing is fair.</p>
<p>MIT gets like 11,000 application and some ivies even less. UF gets 22,000+ obviously people with great stats are not going to be accepted all the time, esp if they know you what to go to ivies and what not.</p>
<p>I think everyone in the state of Florida had a pretty good idea how academically strong UF has become. Up until last year alot of really smart kids from Dade, Broward, Orange, etc. were still wanting to stay at their regional universities or applying OOS instead of coming to Gainesville for college. Now after 2 National Championships, and another on the way, these students are willing to give anything to come to UF. Watch in the years to come how difficult FTIC admissions to UF will be. I have no doubt that it is going to get ridiculously hard (not that it hasn't already, but I'm talking UVA, UNC levels). </p>
<p>Evidently over 26,000 applications were sent in this year (this is up 12% from last year), and admissions has tried to cut the size of this class as compared to the class of 2010 by a good amount.</p>