Chance me: UF 2023

Hey everyone, I’m getting stressed about my UF application. Chance me?

ACT: 31
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
Weighted UF GPA (if calculated): 4.2
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 176 (Very competitive AP school)
AP classes: 7
Dual enrollment: Sociology, government, economics, oceanography, political science, art appreciation
Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 2 dual enrollment, honors math, orchestra

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): French NHS social coordinator, National History Honors society treasurer
Volunteer/Community service: 1000+ hours (since 2015) educating the public about climate change and environmentalism as a volunteer (tour guide), 900+ hours interning for a U.S. congressional campaign (summer and fall 2018)
Essays (rate 1-10): 9

Intended Major: International relations
Race: White
Gender: Female

My guess would be you have at least a 50% chance of getting in based on your grades and test scores being in the middle 50% of who they accept, plus an apparently excellent essay. I wonder if 2 people would ever rate an essay the same way. That’s why I think all these college decisions are a crap shoot. Maybe they are experts at determining who writes an essay, but you can buy an essay or have one professional edited online. Or they have family members write it for them. To put an essay that can easily not be legitimate to be more important than a standardized test everyone takes is wrong and gives admissions officers room to bring their own biases into play. Sorry for the rant. Good luck to you Friday.

More information:
I applied for Summer B 2019 in the International Relations major.
My sister is currently a sophomore at UF.

@rem1999 Are you in state? Is 7 AP classes the most that you could have taken at your high school? You are 176th in your class rank? Out of how many seniors?

@fl1234, I’m in state and my rank is 176/350. My school is really competetive, a friend of mine is ranked 50-something and her GPA is only .15 points below people in the top 20.
My school offers tons of APs, underclassmen usually take 1-2 AP classes per year while upper classmen take 2-5. There are definitely students who take full AP schedules by their senior year and wind up with 4.9/5 GPAs.

The thing with my school is that it’s a choice program with strict admission criteria, and students come from all over the county. I commute 40 minutes there every day. I could’ve stayed at my home school and been in their top 10.

Freshman at my school only have the option of taking one AP (human geo), which I did.
Sophomore year I took AP world.
Junior year I took APUSH, APES, and APLang plus dual enrollment sociology and political science
This year I’m in APLit, APEuro, and AP psych. Last summer I dual enrolled government and microeconomics, and I’m curently in oceanography and art appreciation.

@rem1999 As I and others have posted before, the best indicator is the last couple of years of acceptances from your high school. Since you are in state, UF knows your school very well and how competitive it is. I would guess that they accept about the same number of students each year from your school and there is a GPA/Class Rank they look to admit.

Other factors like test scores, extracurriculars and the essay are also important. You indicate that your essay is very good and your ACT is a bit over the average, and your course load is not weak, so that is good.
The best feedback you could get is from your guidance counselor regarding whether the people with your approximate class rank/GPA were accepted last year. That will give you a better idea than me or anyone else on these boards can.

I sometimes wonder if going to a very competitive highschool is a detriment.

Thought I’d post an update: rejected and on to better things, like UM. Thanks for the advice guys

@Trisherella I honestly believe that now because I got accepted to UF even though I attend HS in a place with only 300 students and no real class rigor, plus I’m OOS. My test scores were not that high and my GPA was not anything special compared to many students on this website who do live in Florida. I wonder how “holistic” the system is, but I can’t complain as I tried my best and it worked out.