<p>@metal,
no doubt… best to be prepared now; you think your application is pretty competitive?</p>
<p>Some actual numbers… </p>
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<p>Per each schools 08/09 Common Data Set (info schools must provide to the government in a specified form)</p>
<p>Amount of top 10% students: (State of Florida schools)</p>
<p>UF- 76% top 10%
UM- 66% top 10%
UCF- 35% top 10%
FSU- 31% top 10%
USF- 25% top 10%</p>
<p>What sja1202 states about private competitive schools probably makes the 76% at UF artificially low since there is no way to count them.</p>
<p>If you are a top 10% student at your school you have an excellent chance to get into UF.</p>
<p>To say that UF weighs class rank heavily in the admissions process is complete garbage. Call the Admissions Office right now and ask any person there and they will tell you that they don’t use it. I asked about it at the preview thing last year and they said they don’t use it. Then I called and emailed again to make sure they don’t check it (because on my h.s. transcript it is optional to include class rank). They don’t. And since when did I lose my credulity? I was in the newspaper :P</p>
<p>Go GATORS!</p>
<p>here’s one of the emails:</p>
<p>Thanks for your message and your interest in the University of Florida. We do not consider class rank in the admission/application process.</p>
<p>Good luck and GO Gators!</p>
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<p>Sandra R. Hayden
Manager, UF Welcome Center
Assistant Director of Admissions
University of Florida
[University</a> of Florida - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ufl.edu%5DUniversity”>http://www.admissions.ufl.edu)
352-392-2959 or
352-392-1365 ext. 3301
<a href=“mailto:hayden@ufl.edu”>hayden@ufl.edu</a></p>
<p>Gatorboy: If you believe that than the Easter bunny must have treated you very kindly yesterday.</p>
<p>Are you saying that you think the Assisstant Director of Admissions lied to me in an email? Well as soon as someone shows me some proof that UF does look at class rank, I’m not buying it. There is no place on the application for class rank (other than an area for survey use only), and I didn’t send it in and I was accepted. If you want to worry about class rank then go ahead… I don’t care if everyone else is too ignorant to listen to the actual assistant director of admissions about the topic… but I’m tellin ya, it doesn’t matter hahaha</p>
<p>I actually know one of the Admissions directors through my college advisor who is great friends with them. They say they don’t consider it but then again if you’re in the top 10% of your class then you probably have some of the top grades in your school and they look at your grades and GPA. it looks better to be in the top 10% especially if your test scores are lacking…</p>
<p>The tour guide said that they honestly don’t consider it…but who knows how much she knew?</p>
<p>^Probably more than you think. They are professionally trained Cicerones, lol.</p>
<p>But if UF dont care about ranking, then so be it… they have many other factors to contribute to the admission process; so this top 10% discussion is probably irrelevant. I think strong gpas with a rigorous course load strengthens the application. However, they do ask if one’s in the top half, quarter, or tenth percent on the application; it may be optional though.</p>
<p>In case some of you don’t remember, UF did ask us for our class rank as a percentile on the application. This was self-reported information. I didn’t input it because a.) I wasn’t sure what it was and b.) They eventually get this information off your transcript. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that being in the top 10% is a make it or break it type deal, and I sorta find this misleading. I know quite a few people who weren’t in the top 10% of their class who got accepted. I also know some valedictorians, saludictorians, perfect SAT-scorers, etc. who were rejected. So clearly the top 10% cut-off does not apply to UF (if it did, why do they reject valedictorians?) I’m not denying that having a good rank will certainly help, but we shouldn’t discourage other prospective Gators from applying just because they don’t rank in the top 10% of their class. I’ve never heard of this top 10% rule in the state of Florida, because it doesn’t apply. In states like Texas, they have a top 10% rule, which automatically admits students in the top 10% of their class into a state university. Also, remember that UF reviews high schools’ profiles. Usually when UF receives an application, they are very familiar with the high school that the applicant attends because in all likelihood they’ve received applications from that school in the past. With that said, suppose they receive an application from a student who ranked 400/2000 students (top 20%) and they receive an application from a student who ranked 10/50 students (top 20%). Same rank, and maybe assume that the second student scored better on his ACT/SAT. They’re most likely going to take the second student. Probably for students who attend large schools, I’d recommend that you’d be ranked fairly high. For instance, say someone is ranked 200/2000 (top 10%), and 50 other students in that top 200 group applied to UF… Clearly, being in the top 10% might not be enough because there are so many other qualified students. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that there are sooooo many other admissions factors. And UF weighs those factors differently for different students. Hopefully, you get my point.</p>
<p>I encourage everyone to apply to UF. It can’t hurt to try.</p>
<p>Per UF’s CDS subsection CDS-C10:
Link: [Office</a> of Institutional Planning and Research - Common Data Set: CDS Section B Enrollment and Persistence](<a href=“http://www.ir.ufl.edu/OIRAPPS/CDS/CDS_UF.asp?pagesource=admission]Office”>http://www.ir.ufl.edu/OIRAPPS/CDS/CDS_UF.asp?pagesource=admission)</p>
<p>“Note: Florida public high school students graduating in the top 5% and completing the college preparatory curriculum will receive priority consideration for admission to UF.”</p>
<p>.
The same CDS section lists 88.1% of the entering class as having an “unweighted” GPA of 3.75 out of 4.0.</p>
<p>It may just be cause and effect that high GPA naturally translates into a top 10% ranking.</p>
<p>By the way it used to be that top 5% was a guaranteed admission. Now its just “priority”</p>
<p>Isn’t class rank a heavy factor in US News rankings? If they take less of these students, rankings may go down and UF works very hard to avoid that…</p>
<p>Well, 75% of those admitted were in the top 10% of their class. That still means that 25% of admitted students were not in the top 10% of their class. Obviously, being in the top 10% helps, but it is by no means the be-all and end-all when it comes to UF admissions. That’s all I’m saying.</p>
<p>xNYer: Nice job providing some fresh empirical data.</p>
<p>If those numbers are accurate and my math is right enrollment for 08 was 41% male and 59% female.</p>
<p>If those numbers hold true for the 09 class than that proves my hypothesis that UF is by far the best school in the country bar none.</p>
<p>I dont think that class ranks matters at all, it just happens that the people with high gpas are high in class rank, look at college board, UF says that Alumni Relation has very little to do in their application.</p>
<p>Ok do they look at all at UW or just there UF GPA?</p>
<p>They only look at UF GPA.</p>
<p>ypu Tzais is right, thats why it is good to have honors and APs. From what i have seen UF only looks at a number of things, UF GPA, Then Number of Credits, and your SAT scores.</p>
<p>at my school…</p>
<p>all the top 5% of my class got into UF. People i know that were not in top 5% did not get in. I have a friend who is in top 5% got a 1000/16000 on her SAT’s has a 4.2 weighted GPA and got into UF. I have a friend who is top 7% in class, got a 29 on the ACT’s, has a 3.9 weighted GPA and didn’t get into UF. They were both involved in a lot of extracurricular activities (both did a 4 year varsity sport)</p>
<p>Her GPA was over 4.0, thats why</p>