<p>I did not think I was going to get in but I didddd. University of florida is known as best value out of state. This is my first choice I would love to go here, but you know money. Anyone know if uf gives good aid.
my efc is 4249 thank you please reply.</p>
<p>Texas Resident
Chance me for
Scholarships</p>
<p>African American first generation
Parent income 50000-60000
Act score composite 25 reading 29 science 25 math 23 English 22
3.57 UW GPA
4.2 W GPA</p>
<p>I got into UF as well. #UF18. On the website, UF will email students regarding the 3-tier Presidential Scholarships by Mid-March. </p>
<p>Congrats on getting in.</p>
<p>“Chance me for
Scholarships”</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Are you asking about merit scholarships? or are you asking about need-based grants?</p>
<p>Do you qualify for Bright Futures? IF so, what amount.</p>
<p>Your stats aren’t likely high enough for merit scholarships from UF, but you may qualify for need-based grants.</p>
<p>Run the NPC on the website and let us know what results you get.</p>
<p>It basically said I will get 17,000 total in grants 11,000 from uf and 4,000 from pell grant and other grant 2000
Bringing my cost to basically 25,000 after all the grants have come in.</p>
<p>@larryle congrats hope to see you on campus
@mom2collegekids
I meant merit aid and financial aid, because I heard they were good. No I don’t know what bright future is I believe it is for instate kids I think. Also my scores are low so I don’t know about that. Th k you so much you are so helpful, I don’t know how you know so much about this, but thank you.</p>
<p>Bright Futures is only for those who graduate from a Florida high school </p>
<p>@pipe135</p>
<p>At this point, it looks like you’re waiting to hear about the OOS scholarships. These are done in 3 tiers:</p>
<p>Office of Admissions Alumni Scholarship: $8,000 per year
Sunshine Scholarship: $16,000 per year
Gator Nation Scholarship: $20,000 per year</p>
<p>The selection group uses a “Holistic” method in awarding the scholarships:they take a bunch of factors into account, including finacial need and URM status. You do need to have a back-up to UF in place, since you can’t depend on these scholarships.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>UF isn’t exactly the most generous at handing out scholarships, but this allows them a huge reserve on financial aid don’t which is why they have this status.</p>
<p>You should gey a back-up, as Gator88NE says, because the OOS scholarships are just as holistic as the admissions process.</p>
<p>Also, Bright Futures is for graduates of a Florida high schools having stayed in-state for either 1 year or 2 years (don’t remember which), where taxes were payed to qualify for said scholarship. This isn’t a really suggestion since Pipe135 is from Texas.</p>
<p>Unless you can think about applying to scholarships and such, you’d probably want to wait for later in March for UF’s OOS scholarships but it shouldn’t be something to depend on completely.</p>
<p>It might also be helpful to say that those numbers are not exact (there will be deductions aside from tuition for student services and resources). One tip would be to plan wisely with money (avoid a meal plan; cook your own food; buy in bulks; don’t get a car; share an apt. with some friends). These sacrifices will save a lot of money. I live this way and can barely afford living in town. Of course, you have to decide on it.</p>
<p>I didn’t get a sense that the OOS scholarships were need based according to what the website says. I interpreted it as more merit based- or holistic considering merit. Hopefully I’m not wrong b/c while we’re not rich, we don’t qualify for much financial aid (i.e. grants) if any. We’re in that in-between group- too poor for college but too ‘rich’ for financial aid (using the term ‘rich’ very loosely). </p>
<p>From University of Florida - Admissions</p>
<p>Out of State Tuition Scholarships
Recipients are selected from admitted freshmen who are non-Florida residents for tuition purposes. There is not a separate application for these scholarships, as all admitted students who apply by the November 1 priority deadline are considered eligible. The recipients are selected by a committee each spring and will be notified via e-mail and regular mail by the end of March. Due to our very strong freshman class and the limited number of scholarships we are able to award, our committee has a very challenging time making their selections.</p>
<p>There are three tiers of out-of-state scholarships, reducing the out-of-state tuition for selected students.
The dollar amounts are reflective of the awards made to members of the 2013 freshman class:</p>
<p>Office of Admissions Alumni Scholarship: $8,000 per year</p>
<p>Sunshine Scholarship: $16,000 per year</p>
<p>Gator Nation Scholarship: $20,000 per year</p>
<p>Holistic Process = We don’t know what the $#$# UF is using. ~X( </p>
<p>Looking at past years, based on postings to this forum, we can tell that the “some” OOS scholarships have been awarded to OOS students with average stats (middle 50% range) but who are low SES (low income)/URMs. Of course, this is based on anecdotal evidence…</p>
<p>Thank you all very much for thus information gator88NE what would us gators first without you. You are just so helpful</p>
<p>With an EFC of 4249 I wouldn’t think you will get much financial aid. My EFC was about half of that last year, and while the estimated I would get a lot from Grants, I got about $3,000 per year Pell and $1,000 more from a UF Grant called Douglas Turner ( a lot of people get this one in varied amounts). I don’t think you will get anything in terms of merit scholarships from UF. I don’t know of UF giving out many merit scholarships besides those for National Merit Semifinalists and Finalists.
My best advice would be to figure out how much aid you need in order to be able to afford UF. If you think you can just barely pay for it, I would go somewhere else. In my opinion, it isn’t worth spending tons of money to go to UF unless you are sure you will have no problem affording it. I think you should apply for private scholarships and anything you can find from other people besides UF and see what you can get! If you really want to go to UF then just keep looking around and find as many scholarships as possible and then reevaluate!</p>
<p>Thank you all very much for this</p>
<p>How about FL students? Besides bright futures, does UF offers merit for FL students?</p>
<p>Yeah, they do. I’m copying and pasting from their website. <a href=“Scholarships | UF Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships”>http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/scholarships.html</a></p>
<p>"Presidential Scholarships
Recipients are selected from admitted freshmen who are Florida residents for tuition purposes. There is not a separate application for these scholarships, as all admitted students who apply by the November 1 priority deadline are considered eligible.
The recipients are selected by a committee each spring and will be notified via e-mail and regular mail by the end of March. Due to our very strong freshman class and the limited number of scholarships we are able to award, our committee has a very challenging time making their selections.
There are three tiers of Presidential Scholarships. The dollar amounts are reflective of the awards made to members of the 2013 freshman class:</p>
<p>Presidential Scholarship: $5,000 per year</p>
<p>Presidential Gold Scholarship: $8,000 per year</p>
<p>Presidential Platinum Scholarship: $10,000 per year</p>
<p>Contact the scholarship coordinator in the Office of Admissions, <a href=“mailto:freshman@admissions.ufl.edu”>freshman@admissions.ufl.edu</a> or (352) 392-1365 for more information."</p>
<p>^Thank you</p>
<p>He was invited to Honors, does that make a difference? Should I call the school and find out how much it will cost me? I don’t know when they release that info</p>
<p>Honors is free. Honors housing, of course, is not. Invited doesn’t mean he got in. Even those who got invited still have to apply. I would recommend that he do it; UF’s honors program is pretty nice.</p>
<p>@Saona63</p>
<p>Not much cost to Honors. If you choose to live at Hume, the honor’s dorm, it’s can be pricey. A typical double dorm is around $2,640 a semester, while Hume is $3,352 (these are last year’s rates). For that reason some honor students do NOT live in Hume (living at Hume is optional). On the other hand, some none honor students do select Hume, since the rooms are very nice.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.honors.ufl.edu/”>http://www.honors.ufl.edu/</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.honors.ufl.edu/UF-Honors-Video.aspx”>http://www.honors.ufl.edu/UF-Honors-Video.aspx</a></p>
<p>I did my actually FAFSA the 4279 was an estimate and my new EFC IS $10
Is that going get a little more money</p>
<p>EFC stands for the minimum amount of money your family can contribute to you for 1 year at college.</p>
<p>Let T = cost of 1 year for you.
Let EFC = what I said above.
Let MaxPotential = the maximum amount of financial aid UF could give you.</p>
<p>MaxPotential = T - EFC.</p>
<p>Note that you will not necessary get the MaxPotential. I’m fairly certain that UF will cap their financial package to about 19-20k. I do not believe that UF will go above this cap for OOS.</p>
<p>As for going down from 4k to 10, you could expect at most 4k more money towards the year. :)</p>