OOS Student chances?

<p>Florida only admits 8% of the students from OOS, so i'm thinking that my chances are slim here, but here is my resume...</p>

<p>GPA: 3.53 uw academics</p>

<p>Curriculum: 7 AC courses, 2 AP courses (taking 2 more AP courses senior year)</p>

<p>ACT: 29</p>

<p>Location: Michigan</p>

<p>Major: Sport Administration/Management</p>

<p>ECs: Ice Hockey (captain, state finalists), Orchestra (two-time competition winner, president, 1st chair, awards within), Helped found a premier sports website on the web, write for the site currently (won an award with the site), Helped build and maintain Disc Golf course while a part of Frisbee Club, member of National Honors Society, Volunteer at local thrift shop, worked with local newspaper for 5 years (won awards during service). Candidate for class president (didn't win :-( )</p>

<p>BTW - I just sent in my application!</p>

<p>Who else is applying from the class of 06?</p>

<p>I've heard conflicting answers regarding this question, so your best bet is to call the admission's office and ask. I'd venture a guess, however, that you are a good candidate for admission.</p>

<p>Is Gainesville in the middle of nowhere, basically it's Gainesville and a while until anything? I'm worried about things to do once i'm there... but I think the town may be good enough.</p>

<p>Gainesville is the Ann Arbor of the South.</p>

<p>If you like Ann Arbor, you'll like G'ville unless you dislike sunny weather!</p>

<p>Gainesville is a college town. It's great. You are always within 60 miles of the beach in Florida... so you can easily drive to Crescent Beach.</p>

<p>Im applying to UF its not my first choice. UF has a really nice campus the only thing I dont like is that its worse than BORELANDO so boring and hot! btw prospective chem major. Nywayz UF has a pretty lenient acceptance rate so A2Wolves you should be fine. I know people who have gotten an 1180 two AP classes and not even passed the exam,get into pre-med.</p>

<p>Hey, I grew up in Ann Arbor. I can deal with boring, LOL. You have to drive an hour to do something fun.</p>

<p>wanabechemist, fyi - there is no "pre-med" major. You can be "pre-med" with any major as long as you take the required courses for applying to med school. When you apply to UF you declare a major, if you are "pre-professional" either health or law, you tailor your schedule to include classes that will enable you to have a strong application for a graduate school. Law schools do not have required courses, medical schools do, but you can be an English major (or anything else), take the required science courses and apply to med school.</p>

<p>Um no, its a major when you apply the school asks you what you plan to major in and pre-med is an undergraduate major. A lot of people switch out of the pre-med MAJOR because it doesnt open one up to other prospective careers.</p>

<p>Wanabechemist, not to belabor a point, but my son is "pre med" at Florida right now and there is not one specific major that is called "pre med". There are several in the college of arts and sciences that are pre med track, there are also several in the college of agricultural and life sciences, and the college of public health and health professions. Depending on which discipline you want to pursue based upon the offered classes, you choose which college to apply to. My son hopes to qualify in the Junior Honors Medical Program, so his major is Interdiscplinary Studies - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. There were also other majors in the college of ag. and life sciences that would prepare him to apply for the program, but they were not really what he was interested in. To sum up --- there are many "pre med" majors all leading to the same thing, hopeful admittance to a medical school.</p>

<p>Your list of facts have nothing to do with my point. There is a Pre-med udergraduate major. I understand the fact that one does not have to be a Pre-med major to gain acceptance to a medical school, and to add to one of your radom facts most students in medical school were music majors. I also dont plan to major in Pre-med to gain acceptance to medical school. I think you were just trying to prove to me that Pre-med is not neccesary to attend medical school. I have friends who are Pre-med majors at the college of liberal arts and sciences. So stop hurting your brain and waste your irrelevent arguments on another forum. PS this is to belabor on your stupid points.</p>

<p>Wannabe, you are not only extremely rude, but wrong. This quote is taken directly off the website (advising.ufl.edu/ohlpa/section2HealthProfessions)
"There are no majors such as "premed", "prevet", or "predent" at the University of Florida. Professional schools define their requirements as a group of courses rather than a major." (copy and paste)</p>

<p>I had to check because you were so definite, I thought perhaps we were advised incorrectly, but no, the advisors we spoke with at length were correct.</p>

<p>LOL, what happened to my chances?!</p>

<p>There are 2 posts on my chances, and like 8 on debating supposed pre-med programs at UF.</p>

<p>Did you get a response from the admission's office regarding OOS students admission standards?</p>

<p>All the person told me through the phone, was "in a way", that in-state students were at a much higher advantage than OOS students. Except they said it in a much different way.</p>

<p>well, i'm from florida and i'm worrying about getting in with stats higher (but not by much) than you.</p>

<p>UF's expectancy's have gone way up and it's gotten kind of ridiculous. </p>

<p>what are AC classes?</p>

<p>AC are Honors classes, accelerated. I also took "Intensive" classes, 2 of them, but didn't include those.</p>

<p>Someone with higher stats than me who's in-state shouldn't worry at all about getting in. The admissions counselor said they thought I had a solid chance.</p>

<p>Sorry about the debate, got carried away. My S's girlfriend, who is a soph at Tulane, tried to get in after the hurricane with a 3.4 from Tulane, 3.8 hs gpa, 1380 SAT. They said NO, that they didn't have room in the freshman or sophmore class in her major (Phys Ther). They did tell her exactly which classes to take to qualify as a junior when she would have a better chance at transferring. They told her that if she was from FL she would be in because they are taking Tulane kids on a transient student basis, but since she was OOS, no go. So, she is going to Rice until Tulane reopens. I don't know if this helps you any, but it does give some input on transfer chances. Maybe if there is room in your major your chances are better.</p>

<p>here is the only guarenteed way to get into UF:</p>

<p>have a 1400 SAT, be florida resident, have a 4.0+ weighted gpa... that gets you into the honors program.</p>

<p>afaik, < 1300 SATs will have a VERY hard time to get into UF. It is becoming extremely competitive.</p>

<p>but, if you can get into the honors program, you are into UF definitely.</p>