Admission to UF, FSU, other state universities may depend on where you attend high school

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Florida
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The Sun Sentinel wrote an article on how your choice of HS could impact your chances at admissions.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-college-admissions-high-schools-20190125-story.html

What’s interesting, is they did an analysis by HS. Click on this link and look up almost any Florida HS to see the results for the class of 2017.

http://content.orlandosentinel.com/table/2017-Florida-campus-admissions/index.html

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I agree more than most people that underprivileged groups have a harder time getting into college, but did they control for stats? I didn’t see that in the article, and that means that UF might be doing that by accident as they are trying to raise their stats, as lower income students are disadvantaged when it comes to tests like the SAT and even GPA.

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I think the only thing they looked at was the number of applications and admits by HS. They didn’t control by stats.

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In the Orlando article they talk about no kids getting in from Jones HS in Orlando for the fall, but on reddit a verified admissions officer said 5 were admitted for the summer term, so misleading. Not to mention that they reference a study from Georgetown about how public universities should not be using standardized tests, Yet they use the heck out of them 1) they want to see all sat scores not just superset, plus 3 sat subject tests, so they see a lot of value in standardized tests. The important part for public universities is that they have a place in at least one school for every student that wants one NOT that we should force unqualified kids in the toughest school.