<p>That is very true fishymom. Honestly, I don’t even think it is worth appealing. What are the chances the admissions commity is going to magically change its mind? Accept defeat and move on.</p>
<p>Well I certainly would call first and make an appointment and not just show up without an appointment.</p>
<p>When do you hear from UVA?</p>
<p>Run - does your 1490 SAT score include M, CR and W sections of the SAT? If so, that is why you didn’t get in. Retake the SAT maybe and try to do better before you appeal.</p>
<p>I’m definitely surprised you didn’t get in UVAorBust, but I agree, flying out of NY and showing up unannounced is not a good idea. It seems a bit rash. I do think if you really want to go to UF do try the traditional appeals process and call admissions and perhaps they will give you a reason for rejection (although I doubt they will really tell you why). If you truly want to attend UF and are unsuccessful with appeals and you have prepaid I would go to Santa Fe and then transfer in.</p>
<p>Ohh, I wasn’t going to show up unannounced lol. That would be utterly disrespectful. I would never do something like that. I was thinking of more a call asking if I could meet with the admissions office. And just to throw it out there, UF isn’t my first choice. However, being denied there just goes to show that I have no shot in hell at my first choice.</p>
<p>UVA - that isn’t necessarily true. UF has its own set of rules for admissions and they typically take over 90% Florida residents.</p>
<p>UVA may not be as constrained by law as UF is to take VA residents.</p>
<p>UVA admits about 30% of the out of state applicants.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.web.virginia.edu/iaas/data_catalog/institutional/historical/admission/first_by_residency.htm[/url]”>http://www.web.virginia.edu/iaas/data_catalog/institutional/historical/admission/first_by_residency.htm</a></p>
<p>I will look to see if I can find similar stats for UF.</p>
<p>I looked but I can’t find that UF publishes its OOS acceptance rate like UVA does. I could probably find the raw data somewhere on the UF site and calculate it myself, but I don’t have time to look for it.</p>
<p>OK, according to this news report, UVA has 33% OOS students. That is HUGE. UF has 6% OOS students. So UVA, your chances are much, much better getting into UVA than UF being OOS.</p>
<p>[UVA</a> Accepting More Out-of-State Students - NBC29](<a href=“http://www.nbc29.com/global/story.asp?s=9993928]UVA”>http://www.nbc29.com/global/story.asp?s=9993928)</p>
<p>Harriet, I was discussing that same point with my dad. UVA recieves a substantial amount more of OOS applications than UF. What I really want to know, is what the OOS acceptance rate is at UF. At UVA it is 24%</p>
<p>UVA - that link I posted said for 2009, the OOS acceptance rate for UVA was almost 30%. I can’t find analogous data on the UF web site, but let’s just look at the numbers:</p>
<p>UF has 6% OOS matriculated students.</p>
<p>UVA has 33% OOS matriculated students with close to 30% of OOS applicants admitted.</p>
<p>Just those numbers alone should tell you that your chances to get into UVA are better than to get into UF from OOS. This is what I was trying to tell you before - because of the 90% rule, it is very, very difficult to get into UF from OOS. Florida prepaid only makes you in-state for tuition if you are admitted. It does not make you a Florida resident for the 90% rule.</p>
<p>Hmm, good point Harriet. Thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>It’s your SAT scores. They are low. 50th percentile is running about 600+/- per test category.</p>
<p>It’s not that one thing isn’t high enough. I got accepted with a 1680 and a 1070 SAT. But I was VERY involved with student government, ranked 5/441, and had a 4.3 uf gpa.
A gpa isn’t everything to UF. It’s all about appeal to the committee and if you’re well rounded.
And I would appeal, what have you got to lose? (:</p>
<p>yeah because i had everything i think. honor roll every year, 2 national honors societies, tennis for 3 years, secretary of a club, 3.4 last year 4.2 this year gpa. 1260 on the sat. the only thing that seems to be missing htere is alum and legacy and maybe a lower gpa but that shouldnt be the reason i didnt get in because i showed improved. should i appeal?</p>
<p>Tennisgirl, you never said what your final Junior year UF GPA was. That is the main GPA they look at. You are a senior now, so they are not looking at this year’s grades. last year 86% of people with a 4.0 or above UF GPA were admitted. Then from 3.7 to 3.99 only 39% got in.</p>
<p>tzais - lots of posters here don’t seem to understand how UF calculates GPA. I see people saying they have a weighted GPA of 5.0, which is impossible to have under UF’s calculation method. I am sure this is part of the reason so many appeals are turned down.</p>
<p>To those of you considering appealing, you need to know how UF calculates the weighted GPA to know if it is worth appealing or not. I would calculate it based on grades at the end of junior year and then again after first semester senior year grades. For this decision, they did not consider your first semester senior year grades, but they might for an appeal. However, make sure you calculate it using their methodology otherwise it is worthless.</p>
<p>If you are a Florida student, you should have a FACTS.org account. Go there and log in, and click “Bight Futures Eligibility”. That will tell you your weighted GPA as UF uses it.</p>
<p>Me, for example:</p>
<p>Unweighted: 3.65 (not what UF uses)
Weighted by school: 5.7ish (not what UF uses)
FACTS.org weighting: 4.34</p>
<p>It tells you what courses it uses to calculate and how many of those credits you have. The categories are English, Mathematics, Natural Science, Social Science, Foreign Language, and “Extra 2”. Regardless of if you have more, it only applies a certain number of credits to weigh each subject. They are, in the order I just gave, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 1.5.</p>
<p>Now, for me, this was just updated two weeks ago. However, I already had all the credits complete by junior year, so that was the GPA UF looked at. It may be different for others from what’s displayed.</p>
<p>Billy, while the FACTS GPA applies similar weighting to the UF GPA, the colleges don’t use it. They calculate the GPA independently. They also do not limit the number of academic credits used in the GPA calc as you described. The SUS colleges use them all.</p>
<p>When my daughter graduated in 2009, the FACTS GPA was not correct for her. It didn’t include all the correct classes for her college GPA and some of the weightings were not correct. </p>
<p>That said, if any of you are wondering what your UF GPA was, you can call them and ask. It would have been more useful well before decision day. We called UF and asked them what they came up with for my daughter and they were below what my calculation was. In our case it made the difference between being in the 4.0 and above bucket which increases chances considerably. They agreed they had not used the 8th grade classes that were on her high school transcript which they should have. They did correct it.</p>
<p>I am an in-state, 29 out of 255 students, and I didn’t get accepted.
29 ACT, 1730 SAT, 4.275 weighted GPA.</p>