i am a high school senior
Weighted gpa : 3.4
Unweighted : 2.9 
Sat : 680 Math , 500 Reading
Not much community service but i do have some.
Participates in many clubs while in high school
1180 sat
Did you apply for summer session?
Where else have you applied?
You can still apply to Eckerd, Stetson, Barry… And, depending on budget, to UAlabama, Georgia State, Ole Miss, Mississippi Southern…
i applied to summer for fau … and accidentally applied to fiu fall term . still trying to get it changed before they give me my admissions decision. and my mom really wants me to stay in state . i was going to apply to famu , ucf, usf, fmu . so i have no chances of getting into either school ? those are the schools i was gunning for
You do have a chance but they’re both reaches due to your GPA. Summer makes both more likely.
You have a good chance at famu, UCF is unlikely, USF apply through ‘First’ if you’re first generation (neither parent graduated from college)
You can also do the tcc2fsu program. You’d likely do very well.
Do you get bright futures, have Florida prepaid…? Do you know why your mother wants you to stay instate? Have you discussed budget - how much can she contribute? Do you or her have savings?
Run the NPC and apply to a few other universities that are affordable- Florida is a huge state so unlike you’re near home it doesn’t matter whether you’re in the north of Florida or the south of Georgia or Eastern Alabama or Mississippi… Except for costs (bright futures, florida prepaid) and merit scholarships you may get.
i am first generation . i did apply for bright futures ( still sort of confused on how it works ) . i’m applying to famu now so maybe i’ll atleast get in there . my mom doesn’t think i’m all together ready to go away for college so she would like me to stay close and i also wanna stay close . she can’t contribute much seeing as though she goes to school as well and has two kids . neither of us really have savings so i’ve been doing scholarships like crazy … i’m expecting to have to have to take out loans . i was really just gunning for fiu and fau bc of the majors and it’s sort of heart crushing that i don’t have a chance lol i did apply for fsu care and didn’t get in so they recommended i do the tcc2fsu and i was considering it. i don’t know what florida prepaid is so i’m going to look into it
GPA is quite low, but if the club are truly amazing and the work you did in them was them you have a shot
Well, you do have A chance, not a very good one, but you never know. You just cannot count on them.
Florida prepaid is when parents set money aside in a special account that will grow to pay for college when you come of age. Ask your mother but odds are if you haven’t heard about, you don’t have one.
Local scholarships help a little but the bulk of the money comes from the colleges themselves. Then, from the federal government (Stafford/federal loans, capped to 5.5K for freshman year + if eligible Pell grants). Then, State grants (Bright Futures, but you need a good GPA, a good ACT, and a certain number of volunteer hours).
You CANNOT take on loans over the 5.5K/year cap. Your mother may take them for you but… unless it’s just like $1,000 to patch a small financial gap, don’t do that to her.
Have you run the Net Price Calculator on these colleges?
Run the NPC on Eckerd, Stetson, Barry, UTampa, and the other universities I listed. Apply to the cheapest ones according to the NPC. You never know. 
FAMU and FSU share the same Engineering program and degrees, except FAMU has special engineering scholarships for specific math scores, so look into that.
TCC2FSU may be a cheap alternative, too.
Suggestion: in addition to thinking about where you can get in, think about how you are going to pay for college and - especially - how well you are likely to do when you get to wherever you land. Based on what you have presented, you might want to consider going the community college route to: strengthen your academics, keep the tuition costs way down, and eliminate the room and board costs altogether. Miami Dade College is an excellent option if you live in Miami Dade. Broward and Palm Beach and the other FL counties also have their ccs. Work hard, get good grades, collect an AA degree then plan to transfer to FIU or FAU or some other target college to complete your bachelor’s degree. Most likely, your options in such a scenario will be more advantageous to you than what you have going for you right now.
2.9 GPA/1180 SAT are respectable stats. @KortneyMccloud just needs to find a good value, something that’ll be supportive and within budget.
@KortneyMccloud : what’s your EFC? Has your mother told you how much she can give you for college?
You need to have a budget.
Run the NPC on all the colleges listed on this page, even if at this point they don’t appeal to you all that much, and apply to all colleges within budget.
I agree with @Agincourt in that community college may be a better option simply from a financial point of view. If you can improve your GPA and take challenging courses there, you’d have a great shot at transferring into one of your target schools to complete your bachelor’s degree.
Here’s what you need to do. Go to this site: http://www.flbog.edu/board/office/asa/admissionstour.php and download the 2017 SUS matrix. It’s an excel spreadsheet which lists all the admissions data for the state universities in Florida. You need to compute your state university GPA which is essentially your academic classes – this is not your unweighted GPA or your high school weighted GPA. You have to look just at your academic classes and how the state weighs honors and AP.
With a 3.4 and 1180, you will see that you are in the lane or close to it for: FIU, FAU, UNF, University of West Florida and Florida Gulf Coast, mainly for summer admission. All of those have rolling admissions, so the sooner you apply the better.
My daughter applied to UNF only reporting her then 1250 SAT score – no grades at all. They accepted her almost immediately, but this was back in August. Again, rolling admissions favor the early bird.
Get to it. Good luck.
I have the same GPA but applied for both when I had a 1260 SAT. I got into FIU summer and FAU fall.
i was accepted to fau spring term