<p>I am a junior in high school
IB Program - HL Math, HL Biology, HL History, HL English, SL Spanish, SL Econ
UF Recalculated Gpa : 4.30, Unweighted: 3.54
I got a C in Spanish 3 and 4. I also got a C in Calculus BC (while skipping Calc AB).
5 AP classes (with 4's on all and one 3) so far on top of IB classes (soon to have 8)
SAT: 2000 and hoping to improve
I will be applying for the SSTP program and hope to go this summer.
Dual Enrollment: Speech 1 (Got an A)
EC: Soccer JV: 2010-2012
Mu Alpha Theta: 2010-
Asian Student association: 2010-
Indian culture Club Vice president :2012-
National Honor Society: 2012-
Youth Group Leader at temple: 2006-
Organize events for the temple
Presentations
Volunteer at Florida Hospital: 2012-
Internship/Volunteer Daily at Oncologist's office. 2012-
Shadow
Dance :2010-
My sister also goes there currently, if legacy plays a part.
100+ hours of community service.</p>
<p>Can you guys help me with my chance of getting in? Im worried.</p>
<p>Really nice app. My guess is you’re asking us ways you can improve. Well, everyone can imrpove in every aspect, but that’s not really helpful of an answer. In my opinion, try to get some more community service, somewhere in the 200+ range would help. Try to make sure your GPA is high, your UF GPA that is. A UF GPA around (and mainly ABOVE) a 4.0 is excellent. To calculate UF GPA, As=4.0, Bs=3.0, Cs=2.0 and you get the point lolol. Get all of your classes, count up the As and Bs and etc. and the numbers they correspond to. Take all of the numbers, add them up. Then take number of Honors courses, multiply by 0.5. Add that to your total number. Take the number of AP/IB classes, multiply by 1. Add that to your total number. Take your total number and divide it by total number of classes, you should get your UF GPA. </p>
<p>AND FOCUS ON RANK, it’s very important. Try to be at least in the top 10%. Top 5% is even better.</p>
<p>I think you are an extremely good applicant. If there is really anything else you want to do to help enhance your app (even though I think you’re just about a shoo-in) I’d say just work on increasing your UW and weighted GPA.</p>
<p>@Cens10: No one is really shoe-in at UF. It’s become one of those schools where you can’t say for sure if someone is shoe-in or not (crazy how competitive it’s gotten on all ends). And it’s important to focus on UF GPA. UW and weighted don’t really matter in comparison the UF GPA; that’s the main one.</p>
<p>IN MY OPINION, YOUR UFL WEIGHED GPA IS NOT PORPERLY CALCULATED AND YOUR REAL UFL WEIGHED GPA IS ‘PROBABLY’ MUCH LOWER. HAVE YOUR COUSNELOR RECALCULATED YOUR WEIGHED GPA. Also work on you SAT scores. If you can at least improve 50 points and bring your combined SAT over a 2050 and have a correct UFL weighed GPA over 4.2, then you should have a strong chance at freshman admissions.</p>
<p>@Sabertooth That’s exactly why I said “just about”… As in an extremely impressive applicant, which they are if their stats are correct. And, I was saying if they want to do ANYTHING at all they should work on weighted GPA for UF, not weighted in general… And that is true for ALL applicants, and actually it does matter. </p>
<p>Back to wannabegator, UF doesn’t often take people with under a 3.8 recalculated weighted, which means it’s good to take honors, dual enrollment, and AP in core classes… You said your weighted is the UF recalculated, so I’m going to assume its more or less correct. Saying this again, I was saying before to work on both of your GPA’s, because the higher the UW GPA the better chance to have an even higher weighted… So work on increasing BOTH.</p>
<p>And back to Sabertooth, the one true thing is that UF GPA is the one that matters. But I think you might want to look at posts twice before trying to lecture someone.</p>
<p>Friend-
This is for YOUR benefit as your GPA weighed calculations are off.
The only way one can increase their weighed GPA vs unweighed GPA
from a 3.5 to a 4.3 is to take all AP academic classes with no more than
four academic honor classes and no regular academic courses. This being said,
your "actual: weighed UFL GPA is “probably” currently below average for UFL admits, so take more AP courses and achieve more A’s.</p>
<p>Colleges will recalculate the GPA from the transcript according their individual formulas, to standardize applicants’ records. Calculating your own may help target reach/match/safety schools, but won’t affect admission chances.</p>
<p>I have to agree with Sabertooth. UF is so unpredictable in their admissions policy. My D applied a couple of years ago, and although she was accepted to Northwestern, Penn State (Honors College), and Univ of Illinois (Honors College), she was denied acceptance at UF. She graduated #2 out of 650, active in about everything you could be (sports, clubs, community service, etc.), and perfect 4.0 UW (her school didn’t weigh GPA). She did appeal her admissions and was eventually accepted but the logic in their admissions is beyond comprehension.</p>
<p>Um, I have a 3.5 UW GPA and my UF GPA will be a 4.2 after this semester if I get mostly A’s and maybe a B or two this semester like it looks like will happen. (I resend my high school transcripts in the winter because I’m technically a 3-year grad.)
My school shows us our core weighted GPA (UF GPA) so I know I’m calculating right. It’s definitely possible to have that big of a gap if you’ve taken mainly all honors and AP academic courses (I’ve only taken one regular core class). I’ve gotten mostly A’s, three or four B’s, one C, and I was dropped from a class and that all factored into to give me a big gap between the two GPA’s.</p>
<p>I am not a regular applicant. I spent my junior year abroad, so UF is treating me as a 3-year graduate because it’s the easiest method of reviewing my application with a year missing. Three-year graduates resend in their grades after the first semester of their senior year so the admissions has more information on which to make their decision. I talked to an admissions officer about exactly what that means, and my new grades will be added to my GPA to recalculate it because they will not make a decision until they have my senior grades from this semester.
Even if they did not include my grades, I would still have a 4.0 UF GPA and a 3.5 UW GPA. It is not off. I have calculated (along with the automatic calculation my school does) it several times to check, and the CORRECT way. I know this because I followed the same formula that was stated in this thread.
It is possible that that gap is there because I have ONLY taken honors and AP core classes (except one math class I was forced to take in the first semester of 9th grade when Algebra 2 wasn’t offered yet), so there are a lot of weights bringing up my GPA. It will go up to 4.2 after this semester because I am currently taking 4 AP classes and I will have .5 credits from all of them. Then I am taking 3 dual enrollments and will have 1.0 high school credits after this semester from each. As long as I keep my grades at A’s (with the possible exception of one B) my UF GPA will go up to a 4.2 when I resend my transcript.</p>
<p>So if the original poster’s high school schedule was anything like mine, it IS POSSIBLE she did not miscalculate.</p>
<p>^^^Mi amigo, make sure you’re only using Academic Classes to calculate. Your school can weigh grades on a 5.0 scale, but they also take electives. UF Doesn’t.</p>
<p>I have only taken 1 elective throughout my high school career. Therefore, my academic classes are the only ones I calculated. I gave .5 extra for the honors and pre ib classes. I also gave 1 for the ib and ap classes. After these proper calculations, my uf GPA is 4.30 and stablizes at this level.</p>
<p>I am. My school shows my weighted GPA (4.4) unweighted GPA (3.5) and then my core academic GPA (4.0) which is only my academic courses on a 5.0 scale.</p>
<p>And I only know this because I calculated my UF GPA separately the way admissions said to, and then noticed it was the exact same as the core GPA. I actually didn’t know what “core academic” meant until I had to calculate the UF GPA.</p>