<p>““first tier” is reserved for only the top 50 schools. Any college ranked below 50 but above Tier 3 is commonly called “second tier,””</p>
<p>This bickering is pointless. Just sayin’. I agree with the person who said this thread should have been allowed to die two years ago.</p>
<p>The bottom line here is the person/book that coined the term “Public Ivy” has UF on that list. So by definition UF is a “Public Ivy” institution. You can disagree with that definition all you want but that doesn’t change the fact of the definition.</p>
<p>UF is also a member of the “Association of American Universities”, a recognition of breadth and quality of education in research and undergrad/graduate education – which Auburn is NOT a member of.</p>
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<p>You are absolutely misguided. The other top institutions in North America have already recognized that UF is a distinguished university.</p>
<p>UF is a great school. And public ivy is so ambiguous…but, goufgators is right. The guy made up the term, he coined UF as one of the “public ivies”. Strange that Univ. of Arizona made the cut, but I’m not one argue. And to be honest, in most likely going to UF, I don’t care. It’s what I make of it there as to whether I’ll be successful.
Hint to folks that don’t care for UF - stop posting on the University of Florida board :rolleyes: You won’t find a friend here.</p>
<p>^ I’m just curious, but where are you guys seeing UF hate in this thread? I don’t see a single post from this year like that. People (on both sides) are moreso arguing over how stupid the term “public ivy” is.</p>
<p>“”“first tier” is reserved for only the top 50 schools. Any college ranked below 50 but above Tier 3 is commonly called “second tier,”"</p>
<p>Really? It’s so common that I’ve never heard/seen anyone only refer to the top 50 as tier 1 before you…? All I’m saying (and all that I said before Ryan started his random FSU bashing yet again) is that UF is not at the bottom of the first tier.</p>
<p>Dnerd, get over yourself. My SAT and GPA (2130 and 4.2W) far surpasses yours, so for you to be insulting my intelligence and reading comprehension skills (740 CR btw) on an Internet forum is plain comical.</p>
<p>Looking over your stats I was curious how you even got admitted to UF with a 3.28 unweighted GPA, and then I saw the classic ace in the hole, URM status. Lucky for you the University of Florida employs “holistic admissions” (aka affirmative action), or I doubt you would have even been admitted.</p>
<p>Choosing FSU was a good decision considering you were in the bottom 3% of admitted students at UF based on your unweighted GPA.</p>
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<p>See what I mean, people? Not only did this ****tard go through my posts to demonstrate his Sherlock Holmes skills, he feels the need to post them as if I don’t know what my own stats are… You BEG for your intelligence and reading comprehension skills to be insulted when you make stupid remarks (like every single one you’ve made in this thread) and continue to miss the point of the posts you’re responding to. Your SAT score means nothing if you can’t apply the same reading comprehension skills in real-life scenarios. If anyone needs to get over himself, it’s you. Actually, I think you need to jump over a bridge, but I’ll leave my fantasies out of this…</p>
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<li>I wasn’t posting ANYTHING about myself or FSU here. You brought it up.</li>
<li>My unweighted GPA was a 3.3 and my UF weighted GPA was a 4.0. I’m sorry that I don’t go to an easy public school which hands out As. Fortunately, UF admission officers know that.</li>
<li>Your racist bull**** doesn’t fly here. EVERYONE in the IB Program at my school got in except for one girl with exceptionally low stats. I had higher test scores than all but 5 of my classmates who applied to UF… and I’m the only black one. Being an URM did nothing for me, especially since I didn’t even report my race on the application.</li>
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<p>I like how you edited your post to add that last comment. You chose to compare me to other admits based on my UW GPA rather than my weighted GPA or SAT score (1970)…? Really? Everyone school grades exactly the same…? No, that’s why UF has a weighted GPA system.
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<p>Dnerd is trying to say that UF isn’t in the bottom of the first tier so that he could expand the first tier status to include FSU.</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? I couldn’t care less if FSU was or wasn’t in the first tier (I’m still curious as to how/why FSU even got in this ‘conversation’). I like how you guys take a ‘positive’ UF remark and turn it into the opposite… I looked at the US News Ranking of tier 1 schools… the same one that Crow posted as his reference, and UF is nowhere near at the end of the first tier. If anything, I was “bashing” FSU for being at the end… not that I care about my school’s ranking in the first place.</p>
<p>It’s a shame that the general vibe I get from UF (a GREAT school) is that it’s full of people like goufgators and Ryan. But there are lots of people like my brother, Vertigo220h, and biply who aren’t asshats.</p>
<p>I said nothing that produced a bad vibe. I replied the way I did because I found it funny how you’re so adamant about the “first tier” cutoff line is much lower than 50 after you were saying how US News rankings are objective.</p>
<p>What does that have to do with anything…? I said US News Ranking were subjective, not objective… and they are. I wasn’t being adamant about that, but the fact that what he said was wrong, and then he produced a link which proved he was wrong. I didn’t say you produced a “bad vibe” in that post. I’ve seen your posts on the FSU board… They’re the “negative” and “anti” posts Ryan seems to think I like making (when in reality he’s just badly misinterpreting everyone’s posts).</p>
<p>don’t be a slave to the rankings, people. anyone who cares where the “tier 1 cutoff” is has too much time on their hands. i will say this, though: ryan looked pretty ******y with his SAT rant. also, when it comes down to UF vs FSU, it’s all about THE U so everyone shut the hell up :-D</p>
<p>Does anybody really put any relevance in US News and World Report other than people looking to justify their love of their school?</p>
<p>Does the ranking mean that you going to get a better education at #41 rather than #52?</p>
<p>No, it does not.</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean that you’re going to get into a better graduate school or a better job either.</p>
<p>Go to RTP and tell someone that you graduated from UF and see if they’re impressed.</p>
<p>joefrommiami, RTP and all other engineering sector jobs are highly impressed with UF’s college of engineering that they place it in the top 15 universities to recruit engineers from. Those are just the facts.</p>
<p>Besides, rankings DO matter to graduate schools. I was recently visiting law schools, and one advisor told me that I was “a thousand times more likely” to get in to that law school if I went to UF rather than USF. </p>
<p>Granted this school was in Florida, but regardless, degree strength is considered when applying to graduate school and UF provides the strongest degree out of any Florida school.</p>
<p>Dnerd, sorry I meant to say “subjective”. My point is, if you think they are subjective, then why do you care so much where the “first tier” line is?</p>
<p>^ That’s the thing. I don’t.</p>
<p>I’ll quote myself again if I have to:</p>
<p>“I wasn’t being adamant about that, but the fact that what he said was wrong, and then he produced a link which proved he was wrong.”</p>
<p>I was just speaking out against misinformation.</p>
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<p>So are all the Gators here ;)</p>
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<p>I appreciate that this is what you believe, but this differs from what I know from people who have worked there and worked in engineering for 25+ years.</p>
<p>UF is a great school and I’m still considering it. I’m not impressed with their scholarship offer, but I need to weigh all the factors before deciding. But it’s still under consideration.</p>