<p>Whats the deal with FSU's regular admit pool. </p>
<p>I applied to another school ED and was a little skeptical about applying to FSU early as well, so I didn't put in an application by the Oct 10th deadline. (It was in by the end of October though)</p>
<p>Are they not admitting any more students after a certain date? If they already have enough people from the first round will they not look at any more applications that have been submitted? It would be ashame not to get into FSU because of this...</p>
<p>Anyone have any thoughts/knowledge on the subject?</p>
<p>FSU does not have early decision they have 3 decision dates.
Complete* Application Received By: Decision Available On:
October 10, 2007 November 28, 2007
January 2, 2008 February 20, 2008
February 13, 2008 April 2, 2008
The earlier you apply, the better chance of admission, housing and scholarship opportunities.</p>
<p>FSU has what I think of as rolling admissions with three decision periods. The first decision period is not ED or EA, its just the first decision period. </p>
<p>With the number of freshman slots for fall 2008 frozen at 2006 or 2007 levels, it has been said that applying earlier may be better. I think that applying earlier is certainly better for those students who are not in the top 25% stats wise. For someone whoses stats put them in the top 25% or in honors territory, I suspect that the first decision period is not as important for an acceptance. If you have what FSU wants, they will offer acceptance at least by the second period. Personally, I can't imagine they will fill completely in one or two decision periods if they have said all along that there will be three. But, if the applications are looked at separately at each decision period, I do think that it will get more competitive as time goes on. And if there are many students who wait to apply until after they have received a no from their ED or EA schools, they may be more competative, and the stats for the later pools may go up. I do think that FSU gets many more applying in the first decision period that have FSU as their FIRST choice. So there may be more slots filled early. </p>
<p>Given that FSU did stop accepting applications last year for spring 2008, they could very well stop accepting applications at some point for fall 2008. If you are in the second decision period, and you are competitive, you still have a shot. If you wait until the final one, I wouldn't hold my breath. Who waits until Feb 13th to apply to a school they really to attend?</p>
<p>And yes, scholarships and housing priorities are better at FSU and at most schools the earlier you apply.</p>
<p>If your application is in the second group, and your stats are very good, you should be OK.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. I was concerned because many people were saying that FSU already received enough applications to fill their entire admit pool. However I assumed they were just counting the applications and hadn't actually looked at any of them for admissions decisions.</p>
<p>FSU data mines applications probably as soon as the "submit" button is pushed. They could well cut a class off as soon as they have the students they want.</p>
<p>If you want to go to FSU - apply early. If you wait, you risk being cut off.</p>
<p>Best to apply by Oct 10 to FSU and if admitted on November 28, apply for housing the same day. If you missed the deadline, the next admission decision is not until February 20th so get your application in before Jan 2.</p>
<p>As soon as you send your electronic application in to FSU it becomes a part of this massive database. It is then continually sorted and measured the way the admissions staff wants to see it. Your chances of being admitted are probably known in less than a second. What they then wait for is to see how the rest of the applications rank.</p>
<p>does data mining include key word searches on your application. I read the links but I am still unclear exactly what data ming is. for example do they look for key words like club president or chairman or buzz words like global warming or sustainibility.. or rather is it mainly numbers and stats</p>
<p>I don't know and they likely won't say exactly how they do it. </p>
<p>You can easily estimate they consider all essential elements (grades, scores, etc) and then weigh them based on assumptions they make. They then validate these assumptions with experience learned from prior years performance, thus using a feedback process to push the effort forward, towards improvement, each year.</p>