<p>I plan to apply to UF as my first choice, and as I was looking over the UF Comon Data Set (<a href="http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/cds2005-06.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/cds2005-06.pdf</a>), I noticed a quote that said "Note: Florida public high school students graduating in the top 5% and completing the college preparatory curriculum are guaranteed admission to UF."</p>
<p>Something like that is major news; I'd love to be guarateed admission. Does anyone know if they mean top 5% in a cummulative list of everyone who applied in the entire state, or if it goes by each individual graduating class?</p>
<p>Is there anyone here who knows one way or another? Anyone that was or knows someone that was top 5% of their graduating class and was rejected by UF?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Wow, that IS major news - thanks for pointing that out. My son goes to UF and I've never heard of that provision. I thought that Florida guaranteed admission to a public state university, but not necessarily UF. Of course, I would have expected that anyone in the top 5% would have an excellent chance of admission, but a guarantee is a whole different ballgame.</p>
<p>I wonder if it's correct, though - UF sure doesn't mention anything like this on their website. It would be worth checking out with admissions.</p>
<p>To find the specific citation mentioned my the OP, click his link and go to page 11, question CDS-C10. Right there in black and white!</p>
<p>Well, I also found that information when I researched it on a government-produced site that was talking about the Florida Talented Twenty Program, which guarantees admission to anyone in the top 20% of their graduating class admission into the state university system.</p>
<p>At the bottom of the program description, they said that UF had supplemented it by guaranteeing admission to anyone in the top 5%, so I would believe that information.</p>