Pllleeeeease chance me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Florida State University
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I live in MA however I get in state tuition because my dad lives in Florida. I don’t know if it matters but I lived in Florida for 12 years.

GPA: 3.57 weighted (however, my UF GPA is around a 3.9, so assuming FSU will be the same?)

SAT: 1930 superscored but I’m taking it again in October, hopefully will go up to at least a 1950
M: 670
R: 610
W: 650

Class rigor with grades (taking off + and -):

high school classes in middle school (in Florida)-

Spanish 1 advanced (A)
Spanish 2 advanced (A)
Honors Earth Space Science (B)
Honors Biology (A)
Honors Algebra 1 (A)

high school (in MA)-

note: the successive levels at my school are SP (standard prep), CP (college prep), AE (accelerated enriched), and Honors/AP (yes, they clump it into one level)

If it makes any difference, I go to one of the top, most difficult public high schools in Massachusetts. My school doesn’t do class rank but because there are many of the smartest people at my school, my class rank probably isn’t impressive. However, could the high level of my school help me in admissions at all?
Also, at my school it is customary that you only start taking AP’s junior year. That’s why I don’t have many. I don’t know if colleges know this.

My counselor told me to put AE classes as honors in the SSAR for UF, so, again, assuming it would be the same at FSU.

9th grade:
BIOLOGY AE (they made me retake bio…) (B)
ENGLISH 1 (unleveled, so CP at UF) (A)
WORLD HISTORY AE (B)
GEOMETRY AE (B)
SPANISH III CP (A)

10th grade:
ENGLISH II AE (B)
U.S. HIST/GV I AE (B)
FACING HISTORY AE (semester course) (A)
ALGEBRA II AE (B)
CHEMISTRY AE ©
SPANISH III AE (A)

11th grade:
ENGLISH III AE (B)
U.S. HIST/GV II AE (B)
PRECALC/INTRO CALC AE ©
ENV.SCI.H/AP (B)
SPANISH IV AE (A)

12th grade (current):
LIT. & CREATIVE WRITING and LIT. AND FILM (semester courses, both unleveled)
CALCULUS AE
STATISTICS H/AP
SPANISH V H/AP
PSYCHOLOGY H/AP

Extracurriculars (should I write all these in or is it like common app where you should focus on the strongest ones?)
-worked at school store for 1 year (unpaid, volunteering)
-relay for life team captain for 2/3 years, raised over $2,000 for American Cancer Society
-peer tutor at school for 1 year (volunteer)
-peer counseling for elementary schoolers struggling socially/academically 1 year (will be senior year)
-theatre for 3 years (publicity, house crew, hair & makeup, set construction, ans hoping for an acting role this year)
-community service club leader for 2 years (and regular member for 2 years, 4 in total)
-paid work as dining staff in an assisted living home for the elderly (many with dementia) for 1 year (summer before senior year-senior year)
-leader of school environmental club for 2 years, lots of projects to save energy/waste etc… my school has a few national “green” awards
-ambassador for new students and incoming freshman to the high school for 2/3 years
-chorus 1 year (senior year)

Thank you so much for your help! I truly appreciate it!

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bump anyone?

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With the SSAR, you shouldn’t put anything as Honors that isn’t specifically listed as honors. Last year that was a point of contention, as “accelerated” or similar classes were being listed as honors and yet are not honors.

That said, you should be fine.

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@Pasbal really? Could it get me rejected if I did it? Tbh, I kind of want to take the risk since it makes my GPA go up. Without the honors my UF/FSU GPA is around a 3.5… Not great

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Since you’re OOS, you really should contact FSU with your question. In Florida, we have state mandated standards for classifying classes. This makes it fairly clear-cut when determining if a class is “honors” or not. However, OOS is another issue.

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It won’t get you rejected, no. Or at least it shouldn’t. The SSAR is still a very screwy form that is proving to be problematic (FSU apparently sent out emails about filling it out correctly multiple times last year).