Has anyone successfully been granted a term change for next year? Per Admissions, they would likely not be considering them until late April or early May. I know my daughter will likely be the last one considered since her request was PaCE to either Summer or Fall, but was wondering if anyone had been granted any term change yet.
Bumping this for my son’s sake too. No news on his term change request either. His original no-fanfare request was sent in on Feb 23, and a supplemental letter sent in late March. My husband did speak to an admissions officer who said that 72 term change requests from PaCE to regular enrollment were granted last year, but as far as I can see or hear no requests have been granted this year yet. Fingers crossed!
Well, that sounds encouraging.
Was your supplemental letter requested by UF, or something you sent in on your own. My daughter requested an update last week, and reiterated her reasons for requesting the switch, but basically received the same response that they will be reviewing in late April/early May, etc. They did confirm that she was on the list, and the date that they had added her (February 13).
Hoping there will be spots to move PaCE students over. Otherwise, my daughter will be a Nole (and we are a Gator family). She just cant make PaCE work with her major (Communications Processes and Disorders–Speech Pathology).
The supplemental letter was recommended by a local UF admissions counselor, since his original letter wasn’t too detailed, other than stating that since application time he had decided on a major (biology/ flexible to some other pre-med science, from undeclared on application). Since no such pre-med major was offered in the PaCE program, he would basically lose a year and start pre-med prerequisites once he got to campus after 60 credits. Also, since PaCE is too new, as far anyone at UF knows, no PaCE student has been admitted to any medical school- many med schools seem to frown on online classes in general.
It’s frustrating, when I was told that term change requests would be considered before denial appeals- that is clearly not the case.
Oh well, looks like my son will also be a Nole if the request isn’t granted soon! (no allegiance to either school here- both hubby & I are Canes but son wants to go away).
Update: Son spoke to another freshman admissions officer today who said term change requests would only be considered after April 15th, and she did not expect any to be granted at this time. So, seems like different or conflicting information is given each time we call :-\
That’s not good news. I’m afraid to bug them too much or have my daughter do so. I wonder why they would be granting a fair amount of appeals (more than it seems that I have seen in the past), but not consider term changes? I guess all we can do is wait. I know that about 2/3 or more of kids from my daughter’s high school who were admitted to UF traditional are not going. Several actually chose FSU over UF, so we will be in good company if we end up there.
My son was admitted for summer b and term change request approved for Fall. Email just received today from admissions.
Thanks for the update. I’m sure those types of term change requests come before the PaCE to Fall or Summer do, but at least we know they are working on some. When did he put in the request?
it was sent around 2/21
Has anyone else heard back on a term change request?
I received my term request from Summer B to Fall around a week ago, 4/10. I sent my initial request in late march. People were saying that if put down the deposit, you would have priority above other term requests.
Thanks for the update. My daughter is still waiting for a decision.
No news over here either- son is still waiting to hear on his PaCE to Summer B or Fall campus enrollment request. Fwiw, he did tour FSU earlier in the week & loved it.
Same boat here. My daughter will go to FSU in the Fall if the term change isn’t granted. Just getting a little bit antsy, and hoping to know one way or another soon.
Anyone hear back yet?
We still haven’t heard anything. What kind of term change did you request, @epv129?
Pace to Summer. I know that it may be very unlikely that it will happen but worth a try. @rccoble
My daughter requested PaCE to summer or fall. I really thought we would hear something by now either way.
Just received the email. They said they are unable to grant any term change requests from the PaCE program. FSU, here she comes.
Yep, son got his email saying the same- no term change requests granted at all. So, he’ll be joining your daughter at FSU. Hey, at least we tried! Good luck to all Gators, Seminoles & everything else out there!