<p>My school has a very established IB program that is one of the first in Florida and has been a pipeline to UF in past years. This year however, me and a frightening number of IB kids have been rejected. I almost always hear that UF takes almost anyone in IB but so far this year I know of more IB kids who were rejected than accepted. Does anyone else who was in IB see the same type of thing happening at their school?</p>
<p>My dd is in AICE (similar to IB) and they seem to be doing fine. Those outside of the top 10% or 15% of the class are having issues. </p>
<p>In general UF “likes” IB, AICE and even AP’s. They like to see that you’re taking the most rigorous classes available at your high school. They even done some surveys comparing IB, AICE and AP (heavy) kids to how they perform in their first year at UF (they all do well).</p>
<p>UF takes “Geographical residence”, inside of the state into account (it’s important, like test scores). They try to spread the offers across the state. For this reason they will cap how many students they make offers to at a high school, county or school district level (we’re not sure of how they do this, via holistic admissions, but they do).</p>
<p>I’m looking at the people who are getting in on my social media accounts and I can tell you not a lot of them are even in heavy AP work. Most of them are struggling in Pre-Calc and aren’t taking many difficult classes and a lot of them have several late arrival/early release periods where they don’t even have a class. </p>
<p>I’ve been spending a solid amount of time trying to figure out a reason they got in and the only thing I can think of is that they fudged some of their numbers on their self-reported transcripts or something else in their stats. I’m counting 8 kids right now in AP who have worse stats than me in every single category possible except for the fact that some of them are working jobs. They’re all at my same school and they’re all white while I’m half hispanic. I really can’t think of any good reason why they were accepted over me. </p>
<p>Meanwhile I know of about 20 kids in IB who were rejected along with me and many of them have outstanding stats and personalities and extra curriculars themselves. 18 of the 20 are guys and I only know of 2 girls who were rejected from UF period. There is some weird stuff going on. UF is really dissappointing me because I think they’re just trying to fill quotas and it’s kind of dissappointing how many well-deserving kids are missing out on the best education in the state. </p>
<p>I am an IB student from colorado and was admitted. My sister, who is a senior at the university of colorado had a better GPA than me coming out of high school and was rejected. I do think that being an IB student did help me in the admissions process. It is baffling to me that the University of Florida would let any of us IB students out of their grasp, but then again college admissions arent exactly fair ;)</p>
<p>I don’t think UF has something against IB. Unless you are saying that in the past they have admitted IB kids and this year they didn’t admit as many, that could be true, I wouldn’t know. I do know that an incredible amount of students in my class (UF’17) were in IB in high school. I would think UF really likes IB students. However, I came from a school without an IB program and tons of kids were accepted from my school but we did have really good test scores and lots of AP classes. </p>
<p>As far as students being accepted that seem to have worse stats, there are a lot of reasons UF might accept them that you might not think of.
Maybe they had a really good essay that caught the attention of the admissions people, and their essay convinced them that the student would benefit UF. The student could have a lot of family members that went to UF, that does play a role in acceptance. Also, being a minority is beneficial in the admissions process. The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is if they had some sort of difficulty at home (family illness, financial situation) that they mentioned in their application that maybe other students aren’t aware of. UF admits students with weaker stats if they have a really good reason behind it. </p>
<p>UF has nothing against IB. More than half the kids in my school are doing the IB diploma and most of them who applied have gotten in. Btw, do you know how many Hispanic people applied in the state of Florida? Being Hispanic in this state doesn’t make you a minority and doesn’t help you in that sense.</p>