<p>This will be interesting...</p>
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The board also voted to freeze freshman enrollment for the next three years at current levels of about 38,000 students each year across 11 state universities. That means thousands of qualified students will be refused entry.
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The state's university oversight board decided Tuesday to raise tuition for college undergraduates next spring, defying state lawmakers who claim only they have the authority
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<p>This should have been expected. In order to decrease the student to teacher ratio you have to decrease the number of students, increase the number of teachers, or both. So if UF is sincere in their plan to significantly decrease the ratio, they have to cap enrollment. That's certainly more palatable than reducing enrollment.</p>
<p>Ok so are they really looking to completely screw the applicants for this year? We already got early decision taken away, now this?!</p>
<p>This isn't UF's fault. </p>
<p>If you want to blame someone pick Charlie Crist & the Legislature.</p>
<p>According the the Gainesville Sun article, "the board also voted to mandate that all universities freeze freshman enrollment to their current levels starting in the spring. That will not cause much change at the University of Florida, which already tries to keep freshman enrollment flat, but other schools will be shutting out students that would otherwise be admitted."</p>
<p>It sounds like the enrollment freeze won't have much, if any, effect on UF, since they already keep enrollment flat. The legislature is determined to fight the tuition increase, so it may very well be decided in the legislative session next spring.</p>
<p>O...nevermind then</p>