<p>I visited and really liked it.</p>
<p>GPA: UW: 3.6
Recalculate UF GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>ACT: 31
PSAT:205</p>
<p>Extracurrics:
around 100 community service hours
varsity letters in track and cross country, each of which I ran 3 years
piano
boy scouts
computer club
government class president
part-time job as a bagger</p>
<p>Also, I am an IB diploma program student</p>
<p>Try ending your junior year on a strong note because UF likes higher unweighted GPAs than that, especially for an out-of-state applicant. Your ACT, however, is pretty strong and hopefully that will carry over when you take the SAT (assuming you do). The ECs look pretty good as well. </p>
<p>Just curious, what are you ranked in your class?</p>
<p>Yes only if you are ranked top 10% in your class. </p>
<p>No if you are not.</p>
<p>That is how crucial it will be to be in the top of your class.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s still a stretch even if he is in the top 10 percent based off of how other OOS candidates have been evaluated. Finishing the year with an improved GPA and strong SAT/retaken ACT score should do a lot for his cause.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Good chance.</p>
<p>you’re a boy scout… nuff said…</p>
<p>but keep working.</p>
<p>My class rank is top 29%, which clearly isn’t top 10%</p>
<p>HOWEVER, my school does not release class rank, so that won’t hurt (or help) me. They do this because my school, Notre Dame Prep, is so good that many students who would be top 10% at other schools are not in the top 10% here. My schedule consisted primarily of Honors, AP, and IB HL’s. It was the hardest possible curriculum at a difficult HS.</p>
<p>Apparently UF only considers the “UF” gpa, and since the average last year was a 4.1, my 4.0 can’t be TOO bad, right?</p>
<p>(I realize that it will be harder cause I am OOS) :(</p>
<p>Keep your hopes up, you certainly have a good shot. </p>
<p>Just keep in mind that you may be able to get accepted into a better school than UF just because UF’s OOS standards are pretty high.</p>
<p>Invictus8, I thought UF doesn’t look at UW GPA’s? I’m confused?</p>
<p>An A’s an A. Getting one will boost your UW and Weighted GPA. Getting one in an academic class will boost your UW, Weighted, and UF GPA. I’m just saying he needs to finish off the year strong to boost his GPA.</p>
<p>I’m just saying they only look at UF Calculated GPA’s with 1 point for AP and .5 for honors.</p>
<p>I like UF’s way of looking at GPA’s. It rewards students like me who challenged themselves in high school. That’s why my GPA, which is a 3.6 unweighted, becomes a 4.0 when you weight it according to UF’s system.</p>
<p>I hope you get in, I’m a 2010 hopeful myself!!</p>
<p>I’d make my own chance me thread, but I fear I’d just be intruding on your recent thread…so I’ll wait a bit.</p>
<p>I never heard an UF Official say it is very important to be in the top 10%, because valedictorians and salutorians are denied every year, but being in the top 10% will not hurt you of course. So good luck.</p>
<p>@metal,
You’re right. UF is not looking at unweighted or weighted, they look at recalculated. Their calculation is pretty much like Bright Futures (AP/IB/Aice=1pt) (Honors/Dual Enrollment=.5pt)</p>
<p>Many applicants seem to have difficulty finding their academic gpa, but all one should do is add the academic grades (with the extra points given to rigorous courses), and divide by the credits. Simple math, nothing more.</p>