Question about summer admission

Hello, when our oldest applied two years ago, we weren’t aware of a summer option. Afterwards, we saw several applicants were offered summer admission. Our second D applied and we’ll await a decision in January (based on previous years, its most likely Jan. 24, 2020 in the afternoon). Here’s my question: does FSU offer summer admission to a percentage of Fall applicants who had lesser GPAs/test scores or did those applicants purposefully apply for summer? I haven’t been able to get a straight answer on this one.

I can’t answer your question but FSU says the admission decisions will be out on January 30th this year.

Thanks. BTW, I’m pretty confident it will actually be Friday, Jan. 24 beginning at 4pm, based on previous year notifications.

FSU website says Jan 30, 2020.
https://admissions.fsu.edu/freshman/deadlines/
But an earlier decision would certainly be welcomed!

My D applied for Fall and was offered Summer which she gladly took. As you noted they offer summer for applicants who may have scores a little outside their range. Granted, there are kids who apply specifically for Summer as well, but I believe the latter is more rare. For my daughter, it was her gpa that was a little lower than their middle range. Summer was a blessing though. Less people around allowed her to acclimate before the mad Fall rush. Plus she got easy As in the classes she took.

That’s great info! Thank you. I had no idea. Our second D has slightly lower scores than our first. I’ve also heard of half OOS waivers. Any idea if that is true?

We are instate so I’m not sure on the OOS issue. However, from previous years post, it seems that any OSS waiver is tied to high stats.

Ty, my wife swears she heard an admissions staff member talk about half waivers for oos. Our oldest D earned the full waiver two years ago but I’m less sure this time around.

As of last year there were no half waivers for OOS, only full. I believe the cutoff last year for the full waiver was 31 ACT/1410 SAT with a 4.0 weighted gpa in your core classes. It isn’t set in stone what the requirements are from year to year and most likely we won’t know what score it takes to get the waiver until they announce decisions in January.

Thank you for the info.

I’ve heard that if you do the First Year Abroad program you can get instate tuition for the last 3 years on campus. If you have an adventurous child it might be worth looking in to.

My daughter had a few friend who chose to start in the summer. They graduated on June 1 and I know one started June 21. Why? She wanted to move on and she wanted to get her summer credits out of the way. I think she continued to go almost year round and graduated a year early.

Another friend attended FIU and she was only offered to start in the summer, and only offered that option at the last minute. I think it was lower gpa/scores that caused her to come off a waitlist or something like that (special program?) but it worked out great for her too.

Interesting option, Tks for the info!

In answer to a couple of questions: yes to kids being offered summer who applied to fall, yes to other kids having applied for summer specifically.

Yes, FYAs get in-state tuition thereafter.

FSU has not, traditionally, had a waitlist.

I don’t know the current grade/score cut-offs; my kids are older (Seminole number three graduates this year).

Feel free to PM with specific questions; we’ve been around Tallahassee forever.