<p>To clear any confusion up, I graduated high school this past June and decided to take a gap year for personal reasons.</p>
<p>Gender/Ethnicity: F, Caucasian
Location: Tampa, Florida (In-State)
College Class Year: 2019
High School: Private Christian school during freshman year, great private Catholic during sophomore & junior year (sent most grads to UF, FSU, UCF, etc), and competitive, best-in-area public (sends most grads to UF, FSU, UCF, and other top schools) during senior year.
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Income bracket: 100k+</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>Courseload: Mostly Honors & AP's
GPA - Unweighted: 3.60
GPA - Weighted: 4.20
Class Rank: around top 25%
Class Size: 568</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>Retaking the SAT for 1200+ (M & CR) in Nov.</p>
<p>AP European History: 3
AP Psychology: 4
AP English Lit. & Composition: 3
AP Physics: (cancelled)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Astronomy Club (President 2011-2012), National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Fingerstyle guitar, songwriting (10 years and counting), Piano (4 years and counting)
Volunteer/Service Work: 75+ hours
Honors and Awards: Award of Academic Excellence in Spanish, AP Scholar</p>
<p>Hello маусинаблэндэр ! Let’s leave the uncertainty principle out of UF’s admission’s and look at the hard facts:</p>
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<li><p>Your unweighted GPA is not too bad, and your weighted falls into the norm. It won’t add nor remove any points from your case. However the fact that you studied at a rigorous private school could balance it in your favor.(Gaahh, this whole weighted GPA is tearing me apart. Being an international student, we don’t have that here, I really hope they take that into consideration!) </p></li>
<li><p>Your SAT score is nice, but definitely retake it in November! (I’m also retaking it then.) How about we both aim for a 1400+ CR/M? We can do it! What are you intending to major in by the way?</p></li>
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<p>-EC’s : This is a tricky one, but looking at the past admitted students, I wouldn’t say it’s bad but not toooo impressive in their eyes. I feel ya’ though, EC’s practically don’t even exist here in Brazil, so everything was by my own accord. Astronomy club is cool… How I wish we had one of those ^^… </p>
<p>-Community service: Would be good to specify where those 75+ were contributed to. This and with the awards makes a nice case for you.</p>
<p>All in all, I would say UCF and FSU are spot-on matches. UF would be a bit higher, as you’d probably imagine. Just get those scores up and try to do as many significant things as possible in these final moments leading up to the app deadline! Good luck, and hopefully we’ll see each other on campus! </p>