FSU actually does defer. On their website they lay out their decision types in order:
Fall Admit
Summer Offer
Seminole Pathways Offer
Spring Offer
Defer
Deny
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All the Florida schools have two and two with the local state college. FSU and TCC, UF and Santa Fe, UCF and Valencia, USF and Hillsborough, FAU and PBSC, etc. Great option especially if your kid takes summer classes.
Tons of higher rank, more selective schools in March.
U of Florida is feb 24th.
I think UF is February 26
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@Couglesrx01 Agreed 2/26 at 6 pm.
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Good luck to everyone! Iāve created a poll in anticipation of decisions starting tomorrow. Feel free to register your outcome!
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Son is really hopeful for FSU. Heās in at Indiana and Michigan State. Spring admit at Maryland. Still waiting for Georgia and Florida. He was EA applicant to Georgia, but didnāt get all his material in time (High School wasnāt great at sending out stuff) so deferred to regular.
Iām probably more stressed than he is.
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UMD is probably a fair guide to FSU - harder than IU and Michigan State.
But both are great colleges - so he has choices!!
Yeah. He was an odd case. Really struggled his freshman year. Bs and Cs across the board (including a C-). Turned it around and made honor roll each quarter after that. Final GPA around a 3.5 unweighted. 1390 SAT. So the question is how much that first year holds him back. I know most places say that they look for improvement.
Unfortunately, applications soared this year pretty much across the board. Not sure why. Maybe some applying to more colleges. Maybe people who took a gap year. But UGA up nearly 30%. I would guess similar at FSU and Florida. Going to mean a lot of kids who would have gotten in last year, donāt this. Fingers crossed. Good luck to all!
My assumption is applications soared because of test optional. If you are a 3.9, 4.5 weighted and have 10 AP - if you didnāt apply to the Ivies you might apply to schools in the next tier - a Gtown, a UVA, a Rice or Johns Hopkins.
If you had a 28 or 25 ACT with those #s, you wouldnāt bother. But with TO you would.
Put another way - you may have applied to 5 schools in the past but this year you applied to 7. My daughter did 21. Why not - lots of schools sent waivers, etc. Sure - itās #s gaming - but thatās not my issue - iām chasing merit so i can afford to retire one day.
If you have a good SAT and yours seems very solid, that will help this year more than most because Florida schools are the only one in the country not Test Optional. Itās unfair to kids who couldnāt take the test but - those kids are automatically eliminated.
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UGA was up because of test optional + moving to common app.
Tomorrow will be the last of 14 my dd applied to. Sheās got into 13 and we are expecting her first rejection tomorrow lol. But good luck to everyone!!
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itās good to get rejected somewhere. Mine was rejected at UNC, deferred at Miami, and I imagine Emory and Rice will also be rejections along with a couple liberal arts schools. If you donāt stretch, you didnāt try.
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Good luck to you too! My D has 2 deferrals, and a handful of acceptances. Based on her stats I am hopeful, but since we are OOS and given their acceptance rate, we not confident.
My assumption is, right or wrong, that 3rd party websites show different ACT #s - like 26-30 on the 25/75 split so thereās probalby a lot of 25-28 ACTs that apply. Not that they canāt get in but itās probably a stretch for them based on the FSU #s. I think - but of course, iām not an admissions counselor, i think a 30 superscore ACT and a 4.2 or so Weighted GPA is probably safe.
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This is the official 2020-2021 middle 50% from the Florida Board Of Governors. Keep in mind that applicants that apply for fall may be offered summer based on their stats. GPA is recalculated for everyone. Add .5 for honors CORE only subjects. Add 1.0 for all AP/IB/AICE and Dual enrollment. Your weighted GPA on your transcript is not necessarily your FSU recalculated GPA.
Summer GPA: 3.8 - 4.3
Fall GPA : 4.1 - 4.5
Summer SAT : 1190 - 1310
Fall SAT: 1290 - 1410
Summer ACT: 26 - 30
Fall ACT: 29 - 32
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Sorry for dumb question. But is summer admission (if applies) for summer of 2021 or for 2022?
Not a dumb question.
Summer 2021
Does that just mean you have to start a semester early in summer instead of fall? There is nothing else different about summer admit?
Which tends to carry more weight, GPA or SAT? Weighted GPA not as high due to school not offering dual enrollment or IB, and only math and english offered as honors, but SAT higher than Summer or Fall in this list and