The Gator Nation

Parents Forum
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<p>Son sent me this today. I haven't checked out all the facts.
It's great to be a Gator!</p>

<p>University of Florida - The Flagship University of the United
States. (Average Incoming GPA: 4.1, Average Incoming SAT: 1340)</p>

<p>UF has students from every county in Florida, every state in the
United States and over 100 countries.</p>

<p>2006 NCAA Football National Champions
2006 NCAA Basketball National Champions
2006 Ultimate Frisbee Champions
2006 Kiplinger Report #2 Academic Ranking
2006 Princeton Review #11 Academic Ranking (Public)
2006 US News #13 Academic Ranking (Public)
2006 Pre-Season #1 NCAA Gymnastics Team
2005 NCAA Baseball National Finalists
2004 NCAA Volleyball National Finalists
2002 Record 193 Student-Athletes on the SEC Academic Honor Roll
2001 NCAA Men's Golf National Champions
2000 NCAA Basketball Final Four
1998 NCAA Women's Tennis
1998 NCAA Soccer National Champions
1996 NCAA Women's Tennis National Champions
1996 NCAA Football National Champions
1994 NCAA Basketball Final Four National Champions
1993 NCAA Men's Golf National Champions
1992 NCAA Women's Track and Field National Champions
1992 NCAA Women's Tennis National Champions
1986 NCAA Women's Golf National Champions
1985 NCAA Women's Golf National Champions
1984 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving National Champions
1983NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving National Champions
1982 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving National Champions
1982 NCAA Swimming National Champions
1980 NCAA Swimming National Champions
1973 NCAA Men's Golf National Champions
1968 NCAA Men's Golf National Champions</p>

<p>Third largest University, Eighth Largest Budget ($1.9 Billion)</p>

<p>Second among all colleges for National Merit Scholar attendance.</p>

<p>First among public universities for sitting members of the U.S.
Congress. (Almanac of American Politics)</p>

<p>Award winning programs in Medicine, Law, Engineering, Business,
Journalism (ever heard of Erin Andrews?), Building Construction,
Chemistry (Gatorade!) and Accounting.</p>

<p>Fact: If UF had been a country in the 2004 Olympics, it would have
ranked 24th in the world in medals.</p>

<p>Sixteen Consecutive SEC Volleyball Championships</p>

<p>Fourteen Consecutive SEC All-Sports Trophies</p>

<p>Thirteen SEC Mens Golf Championships</p>

<p>Two Heisman Trophies</p>

<p>Reigning Champion...Dancing with the Stars</p>

<p>One Gator Nation</p>

<p>Oh, and for most of us...it's free.</p>

<p>Go Gators!</p>

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<p>Apparently UF usd a little academic puffery reporting the admitted rather than the enrolled student data. According to their CDS for 2006 the average SAT is around 1250 or so.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/firstadmis.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data/firstadmis.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I see what you're talking about. 25th looks to be 1140, 75th looks to be 1360. Where they come up with 1340???? Maybe it's the mean.</p>

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<p>I'm sure the University of Florida has a lot to be proud of, but "The Flagship University of the United States" is a bit much, don't you think? Even leaving out those pesky private schools, I'm not sure that UF is even the most accomplished public university in the US. I don't think you'd want to compare faculties with UC Berkeley (20 Nobel Laureates over the years), or sports records with UCLA (70 NCAA championships), for example.</p>

<p>But congratulations to UF for moving up in the world.</p>

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<p>It is statistically possible to have an average (mean) of 1340, if the 25 percentile is 1140 and the 75 percentile is 1360.
I've seen that number (1340) used on many publications, so I have a hard time thinking it's not accurate. If it isn't, it's been used over and over...</p>

<p>Also, I didn't make this up- it was sent by my son (a Gator), and it was sent to him by someone else. He's just proud of his school.</p>

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I didn't make this up- it was sent by my son (a Gator), and it was sent to him by someone else.

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<p>That's such a great straight line begging for a wisea** remark I don't even know how to respond to it.</p>

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<p>tsdad,
What I meant is that I did not compile the information.</p>

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<p>It is HIGHLY unlikely to have that sort of distribution and an average near the upper end of the range. Scores tend to have a normal distribution in a large populaton like this. I'd bet your favorite donut that it is the admitted data. Not the first school to do that either.</p>

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<p>Egads, don't let my DH see this.....he is a Florida grad and it's bad enough he struts around the house in his "first time ever" basketball/football championship shirt.</p>

<p>Thank you, WashDad, for pointing out that UCLA (my alma mater) has what I believe is more NCAA championships than any other school.</p>