<p>I agree with ABCB7099. I am sympathetic to the pain this ego hammer this must be, but some student on the wait list is just dying for a chance to enter as a freshman. </p>
<p>I cannot say how many times I have written here and spoken to hopeful applicants that they should NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE COMPETITION to being admitted to FSU (and UF, for that matter).</p>
<p>As a state school, FSU is perhaps more accessible in terms of financial concerns but it strongly tends to be a (performance) meritocracy and can be much less sympathetic if you don’t perform. My younger daughter was in the top 30 of her nearly 500 member high school class, had multiple AP courses (including calculus AB) dual enrollment courses and scads of honors courses. Yet, during the final admissions review by FSU in the summer before her first Fall semester (like above) we had to run (literally) to the local community college to officially transfer each dual-enrollment credit; the recitation on the official high school transcript of the DE course work was not enough for FSU’s admissions standards (whew!).</p>