<p>I have already been admitted (WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I just had some questions about FSU's very high acceptance rate o.0 58.5 last time I checked? I don't understand how the 2nd or 3rd school in the state has such a high acceptance rate... Why is this? Is this number misleading as to the quality of the school? Why do UCF, USF and even FIU have lower acceptance rates? Go Noles!!!!</p>
<p>I don’t think the acceptance rate is anywhere near 58.5% (for incoming freshmen). </p>
<p>Last I recall, there was around 32-33,000 applications, and only about 10-11,000 are accepted, with only around 6,000 people choosing to enroll at FSU as a freshman. </p>
<p>That only amounts to around a 33% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Hmmm… IDK where you got those numbers but everywhere I check it’s 50 + guess i’m not checking in the correct places. US news says 50 something aswell.</p>
<p><a href=“FSU Admissions | Error 404 page not found”>http://admissions.fsu.edu/publications/counselor/CounselorBrochure2012.pdf</a>
44% last year</p>
<p>Admission rates don’t mean anything by themselves. It really depends on the quality of the applicant pool. Schools like UF and FSU have “higher” admission rates than FAU and FIU, but which schools do you think are more selective?</p>
<p>The difference is that UF and FSU are not located in big metro areas so most people don’t bother to apply unless they have good grades/test scores (or they play football) so a higher percentage are admitted. Basically, they have a “higher-quality” applicant pool.</p>
<p>FAU and FIU have to reject many applicants because a large number of wildly unqualified people in the South Florida area apply because they are the nearest, half-way decent schools and many people probably assume (incorrectly) that they will just take anyone.</p>
<p>A guy who lives in the Miami metro with a 2.7 weighted GPA and a 1000/1600 SAT isn’t going to bother applying to UF or FSU (unless he plays football) but I bet he applies to FIU, who will most likely reject him, thus lowering their “admission rate.”</p>
<p>I wish USNews would include some of this information when they mention admission rates in their rankings, because a lot of people seem to take them at face value.</p>
<p>Ahhhh sweetheart that makes alot of sense thanks for that and yea I was just taking the number @ face value and thank you nole mom for that.</p>