If UF is getting more funding (supposedly), does that mean they will accept more?

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While reading about all the new Bright Futures changes, I couldn’t help but wonder how much more competitive admissions would be.

With the addition of full OOS scholarships for NMS, I’m assuming at least 5,000 OOS National Merit Scholars (About 1,000 under half of the amount of people they accepted this year) will apply here and will likely get accepted since NMS tend to have great academic profiles anyways. This, on top of more incentive for in-state students to apply, will definitely increase the competitiveness greatly.

That being said, I also read something about the schools receiving a lot more funding towards education, but is that only towards financial aid/services, or will Florida colleges be obligated to start accepting more students if this occurs?

Am I just severely overestimating?

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Yes, way overestimating.

UF used to offer a very competitive scholarship to OOS NMF, back in the early 2000’s, so we already have some idea of the possible impacts. We also can look at other schools that offer very good packages to NMF’s such as Oklahoma University. Currently OU brings in about 280 or so NMF’s, and UF was similar, back in the 2000’s.

At MOST, I would think UF may get into the 300 to 400 range (in-state+OOS), over the next 2 or 3 years. That’s out of the 6,500 to 7,000 freshman that yearly enroll at UF.

It will make UF more competitive(selective), it will raise the number of OOS enrolled, but not nearly to the extent you fear.

UF doesn’t want to expand the number of Freshman it enrolls on campus (PaCE, IA, Online, yes, but not the standard Summer B/Fall first time in college Freshman). They want to keep the undergraduate student count about the same, but hire more faculty in an effort to improve the student to faculty ratio. This year they wanted funding to improve the ratio to 19 to 1 (not sure if they got enough to do that in this year’s budget, but they did get funding to hire additional faculty), and ultimately to improve the ratio to 17 to 1. It’s hard to improve the ratio, if you keep increasing the number of students.

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Wouldn’t that proposed change in scholarship program also help FSU, UCF, USF, etc as well as UF?

So yes way overestimated

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@ClarinetDad16 In theory, but most NMF kids would pick UF over any other florida college.