<p>UF finally released the academic profile for the class of 2009 applicants.</p>
<p>It is nice to see they are placing greater emphasis on Writing scores on the SAT.</p>
<p>The GPA percentage of those admitted last year look similar to this year, whereas this year had much tougher SAT standards. 1600-1940 only had a 37% admittance rate. Ouch.</p>
<p>feels good to be in the bottom 25%</p>
<p>Wow, this makes me feel lucky to have gotten in.</p>
<p>Lets see… I’m in the highest catagory for UF GPA (though barely, with a 4.0), the highest catagory easily for strength of schedule (boasting 35 academic classes), and 2nd highest catagory for test scores (going under the assumption that a 31 on the ACT=2040).</p>
<p>85.1 + 89.3 + 71.6 = 246. 246/3= 82%</p>
<p>All that would make it look like I have a strong chance, but then there is that little “OOS” issue…</p>
<p>2009 - Average GPA = 4.2 - 4.4
Average ACT = 29 - 31</p>
<p>2008 - Average GPA = 4.0 - 4.4
Average ACT = 26 - 31</p>
<p>Really? When I visited like 2 months ago they were using the 4.2-4.4 range, but it was unde the 08 heading. (and, espeically bizzare, they said 4.1 was the average,)</p>
<p>hmm…</p>
<p>They have the 2008 stats until a couple days ago. When they put the new 2009 stats they initially put it under the 2008 webpage, so that wouldn’t load.</p>
<p>I find the significant increase in ACT scores interesting. The bottom 25th percentile of ACT scores went from a 25 to a 29. That is a big jump.</p>
<p>I also find it interesting only 1400 of those admitted had over a 2100 SAT score while 1700 of those admitted last year had over a 1400.</p>
<p>I guess the writing section made a 2100 more difficult than a 1400, which makes sense in a way.</p>
<p>This bodes well for my honors college chances.</p>
<p>“I find the significant increase in ACT scores interesting. The bottom 25th percentile of ACT scores went from a 25 to a 29. That is a big jump.”</p>
<p>^ I agree </p>
<p>Not too shabby…</p>
<p>I think Holistic Admissions is not so ridiculous this year because the private schools are not able to buy people off like before.</p>
<p>The correlation here is: the economy tanks and the quality of students admitted into public institutions improves. I wonder how good Berkeley’s stats will be this year?</p>
<p>One thing people should also take note is that all these “Freshmen Profiles” are for ADMITTED students only, not enrolled. This obviously inflates both the GPA and Test scores, because not everyone who is admitted will eventually enroll. Most other schools that post their Freshmen Profiles use enrolled student data, not admitted…so we can’t go compare apples to oranges.</p>
<p>With that said, in this economy, it will be expected for UF’s already high matriculation rate (66%) to improve.</p>
<p>I think they admitted far too many First Time in College (FTIC) Students and Transfers.</p>
<p>Good point rockerguy i didn’t even notice that information.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, it still will correlate to higher enrolled statistics.</p>
<p>^ The mid point is still a 4.3 GPA and a 30 on the ACT.</p>
<p>That is pretty damn strong for a public university…</p>
<p>very similar to last year’s stats for dartmouth.</p>
<p>aforautumn, yeah, but like I said you are comparing ENROLLED student data from Dartmouth and ACCEPTED student data from UF. </p>
<p>Trust me, either way, those are very impressive numbers, nonetheless, the actual ENROLLED numbers will be lower. UF was and is still a back-up school for some of the higher stats kids that will eventually enroll at some of the OOS elite schools. Now, if UF was funded like it should be, then its rankings will rise to the caliber of student it attracts, however, that is unfortunately not the case at the moment.</p>
<p>^^^
not necessarily. Of my D’s top 10 group, it’s split in half between UCF and UF. My D, our school’s val, chose UF as her number one school. Her stats: 4.0 u.w./4.57+ UF GPA, 35/36 ACT, 11 A"'s (all 4’s or 5’s). She never considered any OOS elite schools. (I don’t think you’d consider GaTech elite, where she did get in, but didn’t get merit money to off-set OOS tuition). I guess we’re very out of touch … she wanted a great school for her program (engineering) that was close enough to drive home when/if she wanted. UF was perfect for that … and talking to her peers (from different schools in the area), they felt the same way. Maybe it’s the current economic uncertainties.</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>thats obviously true. i dont think its as big of a change as you make it out to be. after all, i’m talking about the middle 50%. the main group affected by ivy admissions would be the top 25%. I dont have the numbers of course, but i think its safe to say the change incurred is nominal–say, the range for ACT might go down one point, but not more than that.</p>
<p>on another note, dartmouth has slightly higher SAT scores i think, and certainly has greater admission standards besides scores and GPA. regardless, i still think being almost on par stat-wise, and with a much larger population, is impressive.</p>
<p>"UF was and is still a back-up school for some of the higher stats kids that will eventually enroll at some of the OOS elite schools. Now, if UF was funded like it should be, then its rankings will rise to the caliber of student it attracts, however, that is unfortunately not the case at the moment. "</p>
<p>Disagree - Not for Florida best & brightest</p>
<p>Funding level should also increase with added tuition differential.</p>
<p>Also it’s not unreasonable to predict that the Accepted median will be on par with the Enrolled.</p>
<p>It’s unfair to compare UF to private institutions such as Dartmouth when UF is a public university with one of the lowest tuitions in country. </p>
<p>It would be fairer to compare UF to the top public schools, such as UNC CH or any of the Cals.</p>
<p>the 25th percentile of the ACT being 29 this year means that a vast majority of those accepted were in the 90+ Percentile of ACT test takers</p>
<p>thats damn good</p>