<p>I believe that the data mentioned above is for the class of 2005, which is 2 years ago......</p>
<p>I certainly hope that the rule still applies. My college counselor said that she asked the admissions officer that came to my school to make a presentation if the rule still applied, and that he responded "Not neccesarily". </p>
<p>It's all sooooo confusing.</p>
<p>If you go to the main Common Data set page, <a href="http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data.htm</a> , you will notice that it is titled 2006-2007, but they simply forgot to change the title of the "First-Time, First-Year (Freshman) Admission" page. I wouldn't read into it too much since nothing has really changed, and the 5% rule still remains in effect. State schools are required by law to do this, and UF -- while very much an increasingly competitive and "public Ivy" school, is still very much also a state school which has an obligation to its public school students in the state of Florida.</p>
<p>I sure hope so! :)</p>
<p>The question about the top 5% being guaranteed admission to UF came up a couple of weeks ago. I called the Admissions Dept., and when no one returned my voicemail, I called UF's Office of Institutional Planning & Research (OIPR). That's the department that publishes the 'common data set'.</p>
<p>The woman in OIPR said she had no idea, because they hadn't yet mailed the 2006 forms to the Admissions Dept., asking them for the figures on the 2006 freshman class. The forms will be mailed in early January, and the figures on the 2006 freshman class will be updated on the website in February, 2007.</p>
<p>The next day, I got through to an Admissions Officer, and she told me she had never heard of such a guarantee. However, if someone is in the top 5% of his/her Florida high school, it's "highly unlikely" they he/she would be rejected. She also said that nothing is guaranteed, however. </p>
<p>Since then, I read that the Top 5% guarantee was established by Provost David Colburn in 1998, when he was promoted to his position as Provost and VP of Adademic Affairs. Colburn resigned in December 2004 to take another job, and the 2005 freshman class was the last class to be guaranteed admission. The 2006 class had no such guarantee for the Top 5%.</p>
<p>Remember, 369 Valedictorians applied for UF's 2006 freshman class, and only 346 were admitted. Good luck to all of you who have applied ED! I remember the anxiety of ED acceptance week, and it's not easy.</p>
<p>g8trmom</p>
<p>I'bve always wondered why a valedictorian would not be admitted to UF then I understood why. Empty shell.</p>
<p>Since UF's admission process is now split into 2 separate non-conversing groups of scholar/hollistic that assign points based on what an applicant have, such valedictorians may have had awesome marks on half the applicant but failed the hollistic for having no community service, sports, and pretty much studying their entire lives (including practice of osmosis, to sleep on their books)</p>
<p>what are my chances?</p>
<p>Out of State (California) from a rigorous private catholic school
UF GPA: 3.35
SAT Reading: 720, 670
SAT Math: 610, 650
SAT Writing: 700, 800
SAT Total Best Sitting w/o writing: 1330
SAT Total Best Sitting w/ writing: 2120
SAT Total Best Combined w/o writing: 1370
SAT Total Best Combined w/o writing: 2170
EC: 4 years of cross country and track with two practices a day. President and formerly vice-president of the Social Justice and Community Service Leadership Team at my school.</p>
<p>I don't know whether UF counts writing or not and whether they take best combined on each section or not so i listed several different scenarios.</p>
<p>mmm seems like you'd need a bit more of hollistic but you may be ok. it's on the fence</p>
<p>avseahawks:
Your UF GPA is quite low for admissions although your SAT is good. Last year, just 25.2% of applicants with your GPA were admitted.
Any chance you could be recruited for track? Have your track coach write a recommendation. From the UF website:
Middle 50% of the Class</p>
<p>High School GPA of 3.9 - 4.4
SAT of 1220 - 1390
ACT of 26 - 31</p>
<p>Anyone eles want to comment on my chances? the original thread :)</p>
<p>IBIVY, you're exactly the student UF is looking for. What are you worried about?</p>
<p>I think that Ruo is in that same boat. What are you so worried about?</p>
<p>Fear of the unknown, its part of my personality haha, what im not sure about ends up tweaking me out.</p>
<p>I'll retract me worries fri afternoon = )</p>
<p>I had a dream last night that I got accepted. No joke. How ridiculous is that? This stuff is really getting to me. I need to study for my final that I take in less than an hour, not worry about something I have no control over anymore!</p>