<p>I agree with Tomslawsky in regards to UF striving to achieve Top-10 Public status. By having UF rise, it will in fact bring up the entire fleet. This Flagship University needs to focus on quality, and to emulate Berkeley in regards to building up world-renowed Graduate Programs.</p>
<p>All Florida Universities should endeavor to take it up a couple notches. </p>
<p>GASP: I am even rooting for the University of Miami to crack into the Top Tier as well (I guess that makes me even more of a traitor to the Gatornation).</p>
<p>Because of the demand out here in Ca. the UC schools can pick and choose from many qualified students. It has already created a tier system amongst the UC schools and Cal state schools by default. It's obvious , just by the way the kids talk when ranking them.</p>
<p>It's sad New College isn't allowed to raise their tuition. They're already bringing in so many OOS students more money can possibly even catapult them in front of UF in the OOS popularity war.</p>
<p>I have heard that UF does not want to be considered a safety school so they rejected many kids that were extremely (or they say “over”) qualified.</p>
<p>UF admissions is, to put it short, a wildcard.</p>
<p>I find that unlikely. Schools practice this strategy to boost their yield rates. However, UF already has by far the highest yield rate of any public university (something like 60% or so) and so there’s no reason for UF to gamble on highly qualified kids for the sake of raising their yield rate slightly. They already know that there are many kids at the top 1-2% in the country that cannot afford to go to better schools and choose UF.</p>
<p>Daughter has a 4.25 UF gpa, 2130 sat, National Hispanic Scholar, a good shot at becoming a National Merit Finalist, top 5% of her class, but has week extra curriculars and I think they dare not reject her.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t buy the “reject exceptional student argument to protect yield.” D had 4.7+ UF GPA (4.0 u.w.), 35 ACT, valedictorian, yada, yada with all the great stats, and they accepted her. UF was her first choice; she only applied to 3 schools (UCF, UF, and GaTech). So, for them to make assumptions that all exceptionally qualified kids are using UF as a safety and reaching for greater aspirations is very much not true. I think the kids that get hurt, like my S two years ago, are kids who have very high SAT’s (1400+), but they are not in the top 10 percent of their graduating class w/ regards to their grades. But each year will be different. This year’s class was the largest graduating class of seniors in recent history. Beginning this coming year those numbers will decrease for awhile until, of course, they hit another exceptionally large class of students. All of these factors, including the economic climate, figure in, as well. So what seems to be the trend one year, might not be the trend to follow. Obviously, just do the best you can: course rigor, grades, SAT … etc.</p>
<p>But in my observations their admissions is pretty crazy. I knew one kid who had 7 APs, president of NHS, forget exact SAT score but I do remember it was very high, all these extra-curriculars, and he got rejected. Then I knew some girl, same year, that was pretty average, bright but not out of this world, and she was a very talented violin player in orchestra and she got in. So look, I don’t know. </p>
<p>I honestly do not expect to get in. I wish I had maybe done the IB course and joined more clubs earlier in high school to help me, but its too late for that.</p>
<p>People over analyze what it takes to get accepted into UF.</p>
<p>If you meet three criteria: <4.0 UF GPA , Top 10% of Class, and <1300 Sat Score (Out of 1600), you will be accepted into UF, given you are an instate resident of course.</p>
<p>I have never met anybody who did not get accepted when all three criteria are met.</p>
<p>Of course we will here random stories on CC of kids with amazing stats getting denied, but we never see the true side of their story. Many of these kids are out of state or have other factors not mentioned.</p>
<p>In some counties, like Orange County) courses such as PreCalc, and upper level foreign language (ex: Spanish 3/4) are given an honors boost, but UF DOES NOT weigh those courses extra. They are given a regular weight.</p>
<p>i know a few form my school that got rejected that match all those criteria
I got in, without matching any of those 3 criteria.</p>
<p>I had like a 3.4ish GPS, 1200 SAT (out of 1600) and ranked about 24.6%</p>
<p>but i had a boatload of ECs, and amazing essay, and i went to a private school (for some reason ppl say admission for private i-state applicants is different, but I have yet to see proof)</p>
<p>Wait, if I’m taking Pre Calc Honors and Spanish 3 Honors instead of regular, UF will only count those honor courses with regular credit did I just see that or am I reading wrong?</p>
<p>What about Spanish 3 Honors? Because with all the Ap’s and Honors classes I’m taking that could bring someone down if it counts as regular credit. I hope they coun it, anyone know?</p>