<p>My nephew is applying to UF as a Florida Community College Transfer. His major is biology will be applying to the ag school. His gpa is 3.4 his course load was calculus, chem and biology. He has been working part time in a local hospital.</p>
<p>My ? is does UF look at transfer students SAT's? EC? etc.</p>
<p>What are his chances? if he is willing to start summer A?</p>
<p>thanks in advance for the advice.</p>
<p>If he completes his AA they don’t bother looking at SAT scores. They will look at EC though. Most uni’s want to see that the applicsnt was full time and challenging course loads. I’ve heard transfers who’ve earned their AA already have it a little easier depending on the program they are getting into.</p>
<p>I believe that UF’s bio major can be taken from either the CLAS or CALS colleges. CALS seems to be far more competitive, but I’m not sure if it would really help your chances more if applying to CLAS instead.
I recently found out that I was denied transfer admission (on the basis of not being competitive) to CALS under a related major, with my A.A. already completed and a gpa of 3.77. All transfer prereqs were completed or in progress, and I had been taking full loads (courses similar to the ones above).
UF will not care about high school testing scores, or anything really from high school with the A.A. completed except for foreign lang. requirements.
Good luck…</p>
<p>It looks good to me! </p>
<p>We are still waiting to hear about admission for spring. My daughter applied to CLAS, biochem major, AA complete in a few weeks, 3.4 gpa. I will let you know when we hear something.</p>
<p>@Tinuviel8 - Sorry it didn’t work out for you! I have a hard time believing you were not ‘competitive’!</p>
<p>So let me see if I this straight?</p>
<p>CALS college of agriculture and life sciences??
CLAS college of liberal arts?</p>
<p>is that correct?</p>
<p>You would figure that it would be easier to get into the Ag School? Is this correct?</p>
<p>Yes, you are correct! The first time I saw CALS, I thought it was a typo!! CLAS is the college of liberal arts & sciences.</p>
<p>I agree that you would think it would be easier to get into agriculture. Who knows?</p>
<p>Tinuviel - you said you’re at UCF, correct? That is why you didn’t get in, not because you aren’t “competitive” as they try and lead you to believe. UF is highly biased against transfers from 4 year universities. They are preferential to CC transfers, a lot because of the agreement between Florida public universities and CC’s (guarantee transfer into a public university with your AA from a CC).</p>
<p>I transferred into CALS as a bio major from a CC with 3.45 gpa if that tells you anything… and from observing threads on here I’ve seen people (FROM CC’s) with as low as 3.3’s say they got in. When you’re coming from a 4-year school you have like a 50/50 chance no matter what your gpa from what I’ve observed… it’s very hit or miss.</p>
<p>SO is it easier to get in applying to the College of Liberal Arts or the Ag School?</p>
<p>please let me know.</p>
<p>hsb1104, thank you for response. I had heard a bit about having a harder time if you were already at a university. Yes, I am technically a UCF student. I say technically because the only course I’ve taken there was a nursing course that was taught at the local state/CC. I applied and was accepted to UCF in fall of last year- at that time I was applying to/was accepted to the UCF-state college combined B.S. in nursing program. It was not for me at all, so I left after the first term (spring of this year) and have since continued taking courses at my community college because it is only half the distance and cheaper. UCF is over an hour commute each way…not looking forward to that.</p>
<p>Over the summer/fall terms I’ve realized and accepted my love for science, although I did apply to UF under the food sci/human nutrition major (thinking that another interest, dietetics, would be interesting yet also allow me to take more sciences as the UF program requires- subsequently serving as a much better preparation/leaving many more doors open for grad school choices).
I mention this because it is ironic… Although I was accepted into/am a UCF student though not currently attending, when I applied to the FSHN UF major I wrote in my essay the reasons that I would love to attend the UF program specifically, emphasizing that UCF did not offer the major or anything remotely comparable (dietetics requires completion of a certified program so you can sit for your boards after internship). UCF doesn’t have a single upper level nutrition/food sci course.</p>
<p>I did apply to UNF earlier in the year as well because they also have a nutrition program, and I did get accepted. I wasn’t nearly as interested in the school though because of the lack of science in the curriculum and opportunities there. I was mailed a notice stating that my UNF admission was revoked because I did not attend the term for which I was admitted (fall '11); at the start of this term I had still been considering myself a nutrition/FSHN major and made the decision not to attend UNF and to instead complete my final UF transfer requirements this term. I had visited the UF campus and was aware of the greater opportunities and I was set on UF. I felt pretty good about my chances (enough to take a full load of courses that only UF was requiring- not my alternative choice UNF- especially after reading about others who were accepted on this site.</p>
<p>I did have to send a UCF transcript to UF when I applied, since I have a single nursing course from there. But I would not be able to complete the major I was interested in on my UF application at UCF. (Of course, I mentioned in the other thread that I was interested in changing to bio or more of a pure science- but that’s a whole different matter and one of which UF was unaware.)</p>
<p>gator4ever: based on what I have read from searching through the threads on here while waiting for an admission decision and elsewhere online, the liberal arts college seems to be much easier to get into. The life sciences/ag college seems to have a much higher gpa cutoff in general. Be careful though, you may not be able to change much at UF once you are accepted and attending- transfers are told this but I’m not sure what is true. You cannot change your intentions (major/college etc.) once the application has been sent and is awaiting/being reviewed.</p>
<p>Meh you should have gotten in Tinuviel, sorry to hear that. Sounds like you got screwed on a technicality… there’s no way a 3.77 isn’t competetive :</p>
<p>Thanks. Who knows, maybe I will find myself there for a grad program. I doubt they would take me for undergrad now (as a UCF student) even if I was to reapply under the bio major after a few more additional prereqs. I wouldn’t have considered going away to UF for a major that was actually offered at my local university due to expense, but I may end up getting housing there due to the long commute anyhow; and in that light it makes me wonder about applying to UF again as a bio major… I think I would just be disappointed again though.
I will make the best of it. Undergrad is only a couple more years, and then I have many years of grad ahead where all of this will be much more important.</p>