I’m not sure what that means? The end result for freshman admits is the same with AP/DE/IB/AICE credits, you’ll earn the credits without impacting your GPA at UF.
Freshman can earn a max of 45 credits. Both of my kids had over 60 credits (AICE and AP credits), and UF would pick which credits to “count” toward the 45 credit max.
Your choice of major will determine how useful these credits are towards graduation. Both of my kids had 10+ credits in physics, but it wasn’t the equivalent to the physics required for engineering majors, so they still had to take physics.
The state of Florida is financially supporting AP classes (the state pays for the class, not the local school district), DE, IB and AICE programs, so they have dictated that the state public universities all accept these “credits”. That does save a lot of $ for parents/students and is one reason many kids at UF graduate early or with dual/double degrees/majors.
In general, UF does like IB, AICE and AP. UF has done some research on comparing freshman GPA’s, as compared to the number of AP/IB/AICE courses they took in HS. The students who took these classes did much better than the average.
On the other hand, students that are taking a large number of AP classes, or completing IB or AICE degrees are usually the top students in that school.
I think DE credits are viewed about the same, especially at High schools that don’t offer many AP classes or have an IB/AICE program.
Also, if you have FL Prepaid credits left after earning your Bachelors Degree, you can apply them towards graduate school. The same is true for Bright Futures (up to 15 remaining credits may be applied to graduate school).
On another note, our high school allows students to dual enroll at either our local community college or with UF online dual enrollment. Many students think that if they do UF dual enrollment, it gives them a better chance of admittance to UF. I am not sure I believe that.
My twins did their dual enrollment at our local college as they wanted to take their DE classes in person. My daughter still got in to UF (my son did not apply to UF, but he got into FSU, USF, and FGCU all with very nice merit scholarship offers…and he took 4 AP classes and 9 DE classes).
My daughter will graduate with 10APs. The rest of her classes were honors if no AP was available. She was auto admitted to the honors college so taking a lot more than that probably isn’t necessary. I will say the ones she took were challenging, no AP Psych or AP Environmental Science.
I got in for fall with 20 classes that were all either AP or dual enrollment + honors + some regular. I had at least a 4.4 UF GPA when I applied and 1300 on my SATs (first and only attempt, disproportionately better on English than math).
I definitely do not think that you need 20 or even more than 6-8 APs/dual enrollment classes TOTAL in order to be considered competitive. What I did was excessive and crazy and now (especially in the middle of AP exam season) I strongly recommend against doing what I did. Like I said before, take 6-8 APs/dual enrollment total (core classes) and reach level 3 of a foreign language (which is recommended at FSU, so I’m assuming UF also would like to see that).
I took 21 if I can count correctly
AICE ENVIRONMENT
AP HUMAN GEO
AS LANG
AS SPANISH
AP GOV
AP WOLRD
AP EURO
AP US
AS US
AS GLOBAL
AS LIT
A LIT
AP CALC AB
AS PHYSICS
AP CALC BC
AP STATS
A PHYSICS
AP PHYSICS C :M
A INTERNATIONAL
AS MATH
AS GENERAL PAPER
I’m currently attending UF as a CE and math major and I think the most important part is to take the hardest classes that you can while it still being manageable. Personally I took The AP test for Physics c by myself since it wasn’t offered at my school and AP US because I thought it’d be fun but besides those I took the rest in class with some (not so great) teachers. I also stacked them so one year I took 3 math classes at once and anther year I took 3 history classes st once. I also got a 33 on the ACT
I took 3 ap and one dual enrollment total and was admitted. I should mention that i was out of state where dual enrollment is unheard of and APs arent as big but i still was way behind some others that applied and i got in and am doing really well in school
13 APs, 3 AICE, and 11 Dual Enrollments… Biggest advice is to start early and plan smart. Depending on the major, it is beneficial to dual enroll classes like psych and stats instead of taking them at school since colleges put a cap on AP class credits cashed in, but not for dual enrollment.
Have any admitted students for Summer or Fall 2018 had their dual enrollment credits added to their unofficial UF transcript yet? My daughter sent her transcript from our local community college, with 33 dual enrollment credits, to UF about a month ago, and the credits still do not appear on her UF transcript. We are only seeing her AP credits on her UF transcript. She emailed UF several weeks ago, and she still has no response. Just wondering if your dual enrollment credits are showing up on your UF transcript yet??? Thanks.
@ctc237 Dont stress about that they will go in eventually and if theyre not in by the time you get to campus then just go to admissions and ask. I remember a ton of people were having the same issue but the office has their reasons for doing things. dont worry
We didn’t stress but sent AICE transcripts early and showed in Unofficial transcript so we figured in the system. Come registration at preview, they had no record of one of his AICE classes that he needed to use as a prereq to take Calc1. So, spots for classes filled up as calls were made and in the end manual override got him into fall Calc 1. But in the meantime ended up with a class he doesn’t need or want summer B and now have to go thru drop-add.
I don’t think all computer systems talk to each other. So, even when see something one place, doesn’t mean another system will show the classes.
