What are my chances of getting in with:
GPA: 3.7736 (Unweighted) 5.934 (Weighted)
Class Rank: 57/447 (I go to an IB school if that makes any difference)
SAT: 1340 (August 24, 2019 test)
Volunteer Hours: 143 total hours
Classes: Did two years of Pre IB courses and One AP course each year (Freshman and Sophmore). Mostly AP classes Junior year. 2 Dual enrollment courses last summer. 8 Dual enrollment courses during senior year.
Extra Curriculars: 3 years of Varsity Football, 3 years of Varsity Lacrosse. 1 year of SNHS, 1 year of NHS
Awards: Won 2 coaches awards in football and lacrosse. Won the defensive player of the week in football from the Treasure Coast Newspaper
Essay: I felt like I wrote a very strong and personal essay.
Ethnicity/Background: White, Middle Class in an wealthy area.
Any type of input of my chances is greatly appreciated!
@Connorwat what is your recalculated GPA… while we understand the unweighted, the weighted does not mean much… recalculated tells the actual story… i think you look pretty good though . the recalculated gpa would help
@Connorwat I see you being on the bubble, could go either way. UF is very hard to predict due to the holistic nature of their process unless you are on one of the tails of the bell curve of GPA & SAT.
For me, your class rank being 12-13% is the key as your SAT is just below the midpoint of the recent classes. Your best indicator is how students in your high school with similar class rank fared in the last couple of years. Some high schools normally get 15% accepted and some only 5% or less. So, if you can find out via Naviance or your GC how students with your profile fared, that is the best indicator. But no guarantee either way…
I agree with the other posters. If you can figure out your UF recalculated GPA, that gives a bit more information. UF only looks at academic classes, so no art or newspaper or yearbook and they give a .5 bump for honors and a 1 point bump for ap and DE.
UF weighs GPA, rigor and essay more than it does test scores and class rank. The running theory on here appears to be (in my opinion) that you have an excellent chance if you are in the top 5-10% of your class and your grades/scores are in the top 25% of the UF range – so that’s (for summer) recalculated GPA of 4.6 or better, SAT of 1400 / ACT of 32 or better.
Everyone else is open to debate. Some kids have a high GPA but not a high test score. Some are the other way around. UF also looks at you compared to kids in your school, so @fl1234’s analysis then comes into play.
And then, there’s the other subjective part (which is either worth about 1/3 or 1/2 of your app depending on who you ask) which is your ECs, community service and your essay.
Given all that and assuming a good essay, I think you have a good chance of getting in. Juggling varsity sports and grades is tough. I would have some safeties lined up, though, as UF’s holistic process is hard to predict. Let us know what happens.
you create a GPA based only on your high school classes that are academic classes: science, math, English, foreign language, social studies, AP and DE. You don’t include art, band, web design, drama, newspaper, yearbook, etc. – just the core academic classes and all AP and DE.
An “A” Grade in a regular class is worth 4. In an honors class: 4.5. In an AP or DE: 5. And so on with B and Cs.
That GPA will be what UF and the other state schools in Florida will use to compare you to other kids.
It is more than likely different (and lower) that what your high school calls your “weighted” GPA.
Make a list of all your classes and your grades, apply the weighting and average them.
UF says it doesn’t take your term selection into consideration when evaluating your application, so they say it doesn’t help you to say you want to start in Summer. The statistics suggest that kids who are admitted for summer have slightly lesser stats than fall. In previous years, UF has reported no difference between the terms.
Your GPA is excellent though the rank still clouds things a bit. At many high schools in Florida, a kid with a 4.6 is in the top 5%, but you are in the top 12% – that works against you, according to several prominent theorists on here.
Anyway, I still think you have a good chance, but be prepared with your safeties as it will be the most competitive year ever with plenty of heartbreak. Let us know what happens.
@Connorwat Your initial post said that you go to an IB high school but the description of your classes does not mention IB classes. It it right that you are not in the IB program and not going for the IB diploma?
Also, I am wondering how your UF recalculated GPA could be 4.619 while the unweighted is 3.77. That is a pretty big leap caused by the Honors and AP/DE classes. You would need almost all of your classes for 3 years to be AP/DE to get that kind of bump (by getting the extra 1.0 point in all of those classes). Your course description indicates that your first 2 years you took 1 AP class each year. That does not add up for me, unless you did really bad in the non-core classes and your unweighted GPA in just the core classes is close to 4.0… But even so, that is still a big jump.
For example, through Junior year, my son has a 4.0 unweighted Core GPA and his UF GPA is 4.54. He has completed 7 APs and most other classes were Honors.
How would I compute my GPA if I took a lab with my Bio 1 lecture class, since it was only 1 credit instead of 3. I made an error in counting those two as separate full classes.
Also, when computing my GPA do I include my grades for this past fall semester or only up until last summer’s classes? That may have something to do with my high boost in my UF GPA.
@connorwat I failed to mention that UF does not look at your senior year grades. So when you calculate your UF GPA include all high school level classes – even if you took them in middle school – and the classes through the end of your junior year.
UF will look at your senior year schedule to see that you are still taking challenging classes but not your grades this year. Upon acceptance, you need to send your final transcripts and still have “good grades” or you risk having your acceptance rescinded, which does happen.
@fl1234 typically classes with a lab are usually 1.0 (meaning full year) versus a regular dual enrollment which is .5 half year classes. thus, you take the class with the lab and count it twice where a regular dual enrollment you only count once… like a semester…
@Connorwat typically classes with a lab are usually 1.0 (meaning full year) versus a regular dual enrollment which is .5 half year classes. thus, you take the class with the lab and count it twice where a regular dual enrollment you only count once… like a semester. did you get a separate grade for the lab? lets assume not… so if you too a science class that has a lab and get an A you have 2 classes worth 5 points each versus a regular Dual enrollment A would be 5 points
@fl1234 you are correct, didn’t make sense to have a UF recalculated GPA of 4.619 while the unweighted is 3.77… my daughter had a 3.96 UW 5.0 W with a UF recalc of 4.63. she only got 2 B’s…
PS: does anyone know anyone that got higher UF gpa recalc than a 4.7? that seems extremely hard to do? I mean there are very few freshmen and sophomores that take more than 2-3 college level as a freshmen and 3-4 as a sophomore… thus they have honors classes making it extremely hard to have a 4.7 . even if my daughter got A’s for those 2 semesters (her only 2 B’s) she would have only bumped to 4.67 . and she has taken through junior year 14 college level (AP, AICE, DE) classes…i guess if she took 3-4 more DE classes even then would have been 4.69 with 16 College levels? anyones thoughts?
those 4.7 GPA’s are really for the kids ranked in the top 5 in big schools… 550 kids or more! i don’t mean top 5 percent… i mean literally top 5 of their class…
My recalculated GPA now is 4.3947, after adding my summer classes and not taking into consideration my first semester of senior year. Also, my lab was a separate grade from lecture for biology 1.