<p>From the Tallahassee Democrat:</p>
<p>"The high school seniors are extremely competitive,” said Janice Finney, director of admissions at FSU. She says it just might be the most competitive crop of applicants she has seen apply to the university since 1998.</p>
<p>Out of the 30,000 students who applied to go to FSU, the university is expecting 6,000 freshmen. Enrollment dropped by about 500 freshmen compared to last year, said Hege Ferguson, associate director of admissions at FSU. “If you retain more students then you don’t have to bring in more students.” (6,000/30,000 = 20%)</p>
<p>School administrators say the average grade point average for incoming freshmen has increased to a 3.8. The average ACT score for an incoming freshman has also increased to a 26.</p>
<p>The FSU admission staff looked at the complexity of the student’s senior schedule and evaluated their class ranking and how well they performed on harder courses if they took them at all. However, these days, there are so many students who graduated in the top tenth of their class after taking college level courses."</p>
<p>Complete article here: <a href="http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070430/BREAKINGNEWS/70430031%5B/url%5D">http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070430/BREAKINGNEWS/70430031</a></p>
<p>You are making the wrong calculation. You need to divide the # number of acceptances offered ( which for FSU is close to 20 000 probably ) by the 30 000 who applied. They make a lot more offers than they have spaces because a lot of students end up going elsewhere....</p>
<p>The acceptance rates at Ivy League universities goes from 9%- 15 %. No way FSU is going to be 20%</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ir.fsu.edu/student/studentinfo.asp?ID=t_admission%5B/url%5D">http://www.ir.fsu.edu/student/studentinfo.asp?ID=t_admission</a></p>
<p>This link indicates FSU's admit rate was 53.7% for Enrolled Class of 2006. Their 'yield rate' (enrolled students/admitted students) was 37.7%. </p>
<p>The enrolled number in this chart doesn't jive with another chart showing 3200 more freshman (4007 freshman enrolled 2006 in the admission statistics to calculate admit rate, vs. 7241 freshman 2006 in the other charst), so not sure what that means.</p>
<p>Class of 2007 apparently had over 10,000 more applicants than 2006, so the admit rate will surely go down, and the yield rate (a US News & World Report College Ranking quality indicator) will surely go up.</p>
<p>Parent good info, we are happy to hear that even though Lindsey didn't go to FSU she did get an offer in a very competitive year as you have said in the past. I suspect it is a similar situation at UCF. They had hugh numbers of applicant's for about the same number of slots. Seems like pretty much everyone wants to go to school in Florida.</p>
<p>BTW we did get a housing contract sent to us so we do have on campus housing there. Since that though about 2-3 weeks ago they stopped taking applications for on campus as it's full up at the Inn.</p>
<p>"Enrollment dropped by about 500 freshmen compared to last year, said Hege Ferguson" I think the democrat got this wrong, i believe it should be acceptance dropped by 500 this year.</p>
<p>Last year 14027 acceptances-500=13527 acceptance 2007
13527 acceptances divided by 30000 applications = 45% acceptance rate a drop of 17%...if calculating yield we use last years 44% and get 5952 freshman next year....this is a very rough calculation and i find it hard to believe that the rate dropped 17%..</p>
<p>rough calc...45% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>It should be admitted/applied = acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Really looks a lot more like an 8.6% drop from 2006/7 to 2007/8 (53.7 - 45.1 = 8.6% drop)</p>
<p>^That data is somewhat dated.</p>
<p>The admissions rate I posted is preliminary based on information in a recent article in the newspaper. The college board data is dated relative to it.</p>