<p>That's true. I just went to the Outstanding High School Scholars Program and I see how actively they recruit National Merit scholars. Hell, they even told us that the username and password they gave us to confirm registration gave us a special category for the online application.</p>
<p>Back when they had early decision, they offered it to Nat. Merit Scholars as nonbinding. You should be completely in.</p>
<p>I don't know about quotas, but it does seem fair to compare an applicant to others from their school. Some schools pad grades like crazy and many students end up with high GPAs, whereas at another school the classes may be genuinely harder and the grades may be more spread out. It would be unfair for many of the students from the "easier" school to get accepted over the ones that may be just as worthy from the "harder" one.</p>
<p>UF has the highest enrollment of IB kids in the nation. Of course they're partial.</p>
<p>My daughter attends a school with a large IB program as well as another magnet program (and also traditional students). They always have ALOT of UF acceptances. This year it is about 100 out of 150 applicants.</p>
<p>What school would that be? Suncoast? I say that because Suncoast is in the same school district I'm in and is rated #3 according to newsweek I believe...</p>
<p>No, it's Palm Harbor University High School.</p>
<p>^ That was my high school!</p>
<p>So I see where you're coming from.</p>
<p>UF, like any other institution, has enrollment goals for different purposes if you will and some criteria they have to meet as a public institution by law. </p>
<p>For example, UF has a nationally ranked football team which might translate in rejecting unathletic nerds with 1400s, unless they obviously find football players with 1400s. Something worth mentioning is that the Stats posted on the UF admissions website are those of ADMITTED student, not the ones actually enrolled. </p>
<p>UF, I would assume, has some slightly flexible quotas on the number of people they can accept from each school or district. They simply can not accept all qualified candidates from District X and only 10% of the qualified candidates from District Y. </p>
<p>Another reason why you may probably get rejected, especially at places like harvard, is if they feel like you were too pampered or someone else took charge of your education (i.e. parents). I know people that were in the IB program just because their parents wanted them to be in it.</p>
<p>Everyone admitted at UF can be something different to the campus. In addition, UF can not admit every single overachiever. Even at Harvard, there is a bottom 25% of their graduating class. Furthermore, those who were rejected by UF who had great stats, I'm sure could have been/were accepted to other great universities.</p>
<p>Hi All -
We just returned from the tour and were told very clearly, in fact the question and answer was asked once then repeated, the being OOS is not considered as a factor in admission, that it is not any more difficult to get in as OOS. The woman said that they don't even know if who they are evaluating is or is not OOS. I find that hard to believe because obviously that info is avail. on the application. Comments?</p>
<p>Based on some previous decisions, it's hard to believe that they are not reviewed differently. It has seemed like a relatively large discrepancy</p>
<p>I think UF admission office divided people into different groups by their SAT scores, then from that , compare the people within those groups and choose a certain percent of people of that group to be admitted base on their stat. But of course the one with higher SAT scores would have a higher percentage rate of getting accepted. So let says you make a 1500 on your SAT but everyone else in your group make 1600 (just an example) , I think there might be a chance that you get rejected from them. I mean if all of the 1400+ SAT people were to be admitted, there wouldn't be anyone that that has 1000 on SAT get admitted to UF. </p>
<p>That's just what I think.</p>
<p>AL 34, UF is a state supported land grant school, and the state of Florida requires its public universities to give preference to Florida residents.</p>
<p>In fact, at a minimum, 90 percent of Florida's public university enrollment must be composed of Florida residents. This figure holds for the entire system Any one school in the system can exceed the 10 percent mark, but the system as a whole must not exceed 10 percent nonresidents.</p>
<p>At the University of Florida in Gainesville, where Florida residents made up 93.9 percent of the undergraduate enrollment for 2006, the freshman class has had out-of-state representation drop in the last few years. See below. site. And while admission to UF has gotten particularly competitive in recent years, it's not because out-of-state residents are taking the place of Floridians. </p>
<p>From the UF common data set as listed on their site:
2007: % of incoming freshman who are from out of state (excludes international/nonresident aliens) 5%</p>
<p>2006 6.2%</p>
<p>2005 7.2%</p>
<p>2004 9.1%</p>
<p>2003 8.2%</p>
<p>Office</a> of Institutional Planning and Research - Common Data Set</p>