Hey! Rising senior here! Im going to apply to apply to UF but was wondering if I had a chance at it! Heres a bit of background.
White Cuban female, in state. Also my GPA may be a little off do to my school inputting some grades wrong and I just caught it the other day.
Core GPA: 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.69
SAT- 1230 (retook it, haven’t gotten scores back)
ACT-28 (going to retake it)
Dual Enrolled- Got an A in course, planning on getting As on current two courses.
AP Human-5
AP World His-5
AP Bio-3
APUSH- Not Known Yet
AP Enviro-Not Known Yet
AP Lang- Not Known Yet
Intern/ going to get a job most likely at a local vet clinic. CPR and Vet Assistant Certified.
Varsity Lacrosse- gonna be 4 years (most likely captain this year) Various awards from school for this + honorable mention all-district
PTSA- award 3 years
1st place in lit fair category for school
Student of the year for a course, not sure if thats important or notm worried that I have a low chance at getting in.
Key Club-gonna be 4 years- was editor
A health club at my school- gonna be 2 years, but heavily involved/ was going to be an officer but the hours did not mix well with an internship/ a job I have going on.
Gonna try to Start/ re-starting Environmental club
Same with a Pre-vet club
NHS- 1 year, had to get out due to toxic club experience with the current officers that make it extremely hard to work with them
Volunteering- Volunteer educator at local zoo (started January). Lead volunteer at a therapy farm for disabled. Around 470 hours in total so far.
I also failed a algebra 2 class this year (due to circumstances that I may or ma not talk about in the essay) but retook it with and got an A. This coupled with my few leadership positions really hurt my app and I
and if not, any other colleges I should be considering for a career in vet? I`m planning on FSU, USF, FGCU, Pudue (Maybe) or maybe a UC or somthing.
UF looks like a match. You do want to raise your test scores a bit, and keep up with your EC’s.
Since you want to be a vet, look for schools with Colleges of Agriculture (like UF"s College of Agriculture and Life sciences, CALS), as these will have majors and options that best fit a vet.
Purdue fits the bill, as it has a very large College of Agriculture.
Auburn would be a good choice, but you may need to raise your test scores to make it affordable.
http://auburn.edu/scholarship/undergraduate/freshman.html
Mississippi State University is another example, and it’s more generous with OOS merit based scholarships:
https://www.admissions.msstate.edu/freshmen/money-matters/scholarships/academic-scholarships/
Other examples could include TAMU, University of Missouri (where it’s not that hard to get in-state tuition after one year), ….
UC? University of California? Biggest challenge with a UC is cost, they don’t offer OOS merit aid and tuition is around $40K a year.
I should add that your other Florida in-state options could also work, even if they don’t have a college of agriculture. For example, UCF does offer a Zoology and Pre-Veterinary Track in it’s biology major.
https://sciences.ucf.edu/biology/undergraduate-program/zoology-pre-veterinary-track/
Thank you so much! And would that F be extremely bad, even with the retake? I can’t appeal to get it out even so I was planning on talking about it in the additional info, but is that the write place to do it?
Sorry for all the questions! My sister had a private helped for this so my parents have no clue what to tell me.
And once again thank you so much!!
Re: your “F” - since you retook the class, will you have to report it on the SSAR? If so, the UF app gives a place on to tell them anything else about you. If it is a good story of overcoming an obstacle, I would address it.
whats ssar? is that the report where you self-report your grades? if so, I have no clue. It just shows up on my transcripts on my counselling service for school.