<p>I've been thinking about this a lot lately, with two kids who have matriculated to UF in the past two years. How do you all predict the new admissions process will play out? Will the yield be <em>higher</em> GPA/SATs? The same? Will it backfire? The earlier application date.... hmmmm.... I'm wondering if that will eliminate otherwise outstanding applicants from OOS who are unaware that the drop-dead date was... what? November 1st? :eek:
Most selective U's have a January deadline, so that's the aim for most high-achieving applicants, isn't it? OTOH, supposedly doing away with ED will increase the quality of accepted students? </p>
<p>UF will become more selective like it does every year, but I don't think it will be the result of the new system. I think UF will have a better picture of their applicants as a whole. It can make the selectivity meter go either way.</p>
<p>based upon last year, it appears that UF did not want to deal with the flood of calls spanning 3 decision periods of people complaining that a another applicant was admitted with far lower qualifications.</p>
<p>This appeared to happen a lot last year. early decision applicants had weaker stats then the regular decision 1 and 2 applicants. it seemed like there was a degree of inconsistancy. i figured it was more of a holistic element. many highly qualified academic applicants don't put as much into the application as borderline applicants thinking that their grades are good enough. UF, like all universities strives for a well rounded freshman class each year.</p>
<p>This year, while the deadline was November 1, UF is still accepting applications until march 1, on a "space available basis".</p>
<p>the application was available on line July1, 2007. I believe for those applicants that got their "completed" applications in early in the process (by the middle to end of august) the university has already evaluated those applications. In fact they would be silly not to review fully completed (application, sat/act, transcript, recs etc) applications as they are submitted. With the volume of applications they get, to let completed applications sit there from august/september until after November 1, makes no sense to me. clearly, applicants who were motivated and organized enough to get everything submitted early on should be viewed by UF admissions as students who really "want to be a gator" . I think UF puts some weight into this and might be a bit more flexible in its standards with that pool of applicants.</p>
<p>with a single notification date (rather then 2-3 in past years), UF has placed itself in a stronger positiion to deal with potential complaints by saying all applicants were reviewed together and holistic elements may have resulted in a weaker academic applicant gaining admission over a stronger academic applicant. I also think you will see an increase in oos applicants gaining admission. Because so few applicants come from oos, and I believe UF wants more oos ($$$), the standards for oos will be lower than those for in state.</p>