<p>I just don’t understand your dad’s reason for not letting you attend Valencia. It gives you a ticket to UCF after two years. About apartments, if you’ve seen any of my posts about housing, I’m actually one of those that would’ve preferred to live in an apartment my first year if I knew better. Sure, you wouldn’t be able to experience the dorm life, but honestly, there’s not really much to it. Besides, dorming is wayyy too overpriced. And if your brother does get accepted and UCF isn’t fortunate enough to see your potential, I think you can rent an apartment with your brother off-campus or just live with random people if you wish. Valencia isn’t far away from UCF at all and while you’re not a UCF student, you’d still be able to attend quite a few of our events and go on-campus to eat or whatever.</p>
<p>And you’re right… there’s no shame in taking CC classes. I’ve taken quite a few myself and found some to be better than the courses taught at UCF.</p>
<p>Just some food for thought though… I do hope you both get accepted and things work out for you.</p>
<p>Thanks, Mizz:) I know what he says seems odd…but everyone here agrees with him, when I mentioned Community college in Florida. They all say, “There’s no point in attending Community College out of state-it’s cheaper to do it here.” Cheaper, yes, but not what’s best for me. We’ll see how everything goes, though! I’ve almost convinced my counsler to rush the transcipts (Finished finals today) so we can send our first semester grades out! I tried VERY hard, and except for one grade (Which is average) I ended up doing better then I usually do, with a better GPA, too. I got an A on my math final, too! One out of four students who took the pre-calc/trig final! Since math is, by far, my weakest subject, that A makes me feel like a genius;)</p>
<p>Yea, that out-of-state tuition seems like it’d be a pain But I think that if you truly want to be here, it’ll be worth it. It’s not like you won’t be paying for out-of-state tuition at UCF either. Did you get deferred for test scores or grades?</p>
<p>Grades! I’m not even sure if I’m deferred, I just need to send them in. I understand, though. They want to make sure I’m not doing awful. I’m doing better then I usually do:) I’m pretty sure I have my highest GPA this year.</p>
<p>Write,
Did you ever apply for other schools in FL?
Schools like: FGCU in Fort Myers, FAU in Boca Raton, FIU in Miami, etc. Very easy to get in and not good schools at all.</p>
<p>Thank you, Hurricane Mom, it was a very informative article! But I am aware of how difficult it is to get into Florida colleges. Florida colleges are some of the biggest in the nation, because there’s many kids down there going for college. It is very competitive, especially in such budget cuts, and I completely understand that. However, my stats are good enough for the summer B term-I’m in the middle 50% for the summer term. Stats aren’t everything, too. My EC’s, which I’m very proud of, exceed what you would expect from a student, and that is what separates me, and really makes me deserve to be there.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest here… I think the only schools that look at EC’s that much are the highly competitive ones, i.e ivy leagues or maybe some smaller private colleges. With so many applications coming in at UCF, I highly doubt they look at EC’s that much.</p>
<p>I too thought EC’s were important at one point when I applied, but it really didn’t make a difference. And to be honest, I only joined clubs for like one year just to have something down on the college app. Needless to say, I quit all the clubs as soon as I got accepted. And like sifanatic said, I doubt they have the time of day to verify if what you put on your EC’s list is true or not.</p>
<p>Of course that’s not to make you pessimistic about this whole situation and you SHOULD be proud of what you have done for your community so far, accepted into UCF or not.</p>
<p>If you really want to attend UCF, you should immediately send the Admissions Office a registered letter. In it, you should detail what happened to you. You should emphasize that you applied in good faith and received the acceptance in good faith. That the mistake was entirely due to UCF’s mishandling of your application and you were not at fault in any way. That when you received the acceptance (in good faith), you relied on that acceptance to your detriment-- that is, you then stopped preparing any more college applications because you rightly assumed you would be attending UCF. And that when they unfairly rescinded your acceptance, you were irreparably harmed in that you lost precious time in the college admissions process. The legal term is “detrimental reliance”-- that is, you relied to your detriment on their promise to admit you. They can not now rescind your acceptance.
This letter should be very forceful and should be impeccably written. Your parents need to sign it too.
Tell UCF that if your acceptance is not reinstated by a certain date, you will contact a lawyer and also will contact The Orlando Sentinel to see if the newspaper is interested in informing the public about the sloppy admissions practice at UCF. I would also send copies of the letter to the UCF Provost and President.
That should do the trick.
What utter incompetence!</p>
<p>^ I feel like that’s taking it way too far. Plus they won’t care if you didn’t apply to any other schools. Think about it: they rescind acceptances every year when students send in their final transcripts. That is in JUNE-- way too late to go to any college then. Just get good grades, show interest, and see where the cards fall.</p>
<p>You’re wrong.
The poster’s situation is in no way analagous to that of students whose acceptances are rescinded due to poor grades. Colleges always reserve the right to rescind acceptances for that reason and applicants are always told of this.
Here, the poster was affirmatively told by UCF that they were admitted. This is an action UCF took. The poster acted in reliance on that and was hurt. UCF screwed up plain and simple.
UCF is not going to want to be hassled by the threat of legal action or want the bad publicity of a newspaper article about their sloppy record-keeping. It will be a lot easier for them to simply admit the applicant-- after all the applicant is not that far off from students they routinely admit.
Finally, the poster has Nothing to Lose by trying this. If the poster is so desperate to go to UCF it is worth spending a few minutes sending them a letter.</p>
<p>You’re wrong. What school would want a student who would do that? If anything they’ll just look at you through more harsh of a lense. Taking legal action or any of that is a waste of time and money. If they have morals they’ll do what’s right, but that doesn’t mean they have to or will.</p>
<p>And actually you bring up a good point. I got an email congratulating me on a scholarship from USF only to get an email a few weeks later saying it was a mistake and meant to send me another email. Should they still have to give me the money?</p>
<p>People have brought this up before, but one college (UCSD I think) sent acceptances to all the REJECTED applicants. They were in NO WAY able or obligated to accept those students, so an apology was sent ans that was the end of it.</p>
<p>Now, I think OP should still fight to gain admittance, she should NOT threaten the school with legal actions. That would only make the situation worse. If her grades aren’t above average, then there is no way the OP can win a legal battle with the University. To top it all, OP is an oos student, which makes the university even less obligated to accept her. I agree with the above poster.</p>
<p>Troikamom, there is no detriment because she was notified early enough to still complete and submit other applications. There may be a few universities with earlier dates, but since she is open to being an OOS there is a deluge of other prospects that she has sufficient time to pursue. There is no legal recourse based on the elements of this situation and legal precedents. Not wanting to go to another institution is far different from not being able to. The school knows this as well.</p>
<p>The detriment is that she lost 2 months in the college admissions process while she assumed she would be attending UCF. During this time, she could have been retaking college board tests, researching schools, improving her grades, etc. Now, instead, she finds out shortly before the Jan. 1 deadline that many schools have, that her UCF admission was a mistake. She has to struggle now to send off applications at the last minute without sufficient time to prepare,
At the very least, she should alert the administration to the sorry state of affairs in the UCF admissions office.
Applying to college is hard enough for kids without college admissions offices making stupid mistakes that seriously undermine her entire admissions cycle.UCF needs to treat her like a human being and show her some humanity. She is more than just some piece of statistical information that they filed in the wrong place. You posters are acting like she is completely at the mercy of some anonymous pencil pusher in the admissions office. I say let her take it up a notch and put the heat back on them. What has she got to lose? They are not letting her in as it now stands.</p>
<p>Yes she should push back, but she should leave lawyers out of this.
I am fully supportive of her writing appeal letters and contacting officers, but the moment she threatens the college with legal actions, she will lose support and will not gain admissions.</p>
<p>“What has she got to lose?”
-The admissions that she may be winning back. There a fine line between being passionate and being grimy and once it turns grimy that is when the school will give up and say forget it.</p>
<p>I’d have to agree with troikamom on this. I’m not sure if getting the lawyers involved would be a necessary thing to do, but the matter of the fact is that UCF DID mess up. And most importantly, they didn’t notify her until months later- that’s valuable time for any college-bound student, especially during the peak season when everyone is sending out college apps/improving scores/doing whatever they can to gain admission. And you guys keep on bringing up the fact that UCSD messed up and sent out acceptance emails to the rejected kids, but the truth is, they realized their mistake within half an hour and notified those kids of the mistake. It was a mistake, but it didn’t take them months to realize their fault. It really makes me wonder- if Write’s brother didn’t insist on getting a reason as to why he was rejected, if she would still be on the list of accepted kids. Maybe she’s lucky that her brother insisted on an answer before UCF took another month or two to realize their mistake.</p>
But I think that if you truly want to be here, it’ll be worth it. It’s not like you won’t be paying for out-of-state tuition at UCF either. Did you get deferred for test scores or grades?</p>