<p>Freshman are not looked at by major. HS/AA students still waiting on a decision will be evaluated by major.</p>
<p>I don’t even know how they got these transcripts and what they are… I only sent 2 in November. I never sent a midyear report because I thought I didn’t need to because midyear report deadline for most schools is mid February and the UF decision is february 8. On monday should I give an envelope to my counselor to send a midyear report to UF?</p>
<p>OK, my son was rejected, 32 ACT 3.4 UW GPA, IB diploma, volunteer work, great essay (per his grandparent English teachers), played sports in school, took tough honors classes (i.e. Algebra II/Trig Honors freshman year, etc.), and AP classes. </p>
<p>Just curious, how many rejected were white males?</p>
<p>Yes definitely. 3 year grads are required to send mid year grades for a decision.</p>
<p>@aussiemum2: I am exactly like your son. Almost down to every detail. I too am receiving my IB diploma this year with a 3.5 UW GPA but the most rigorous course load possible. As for SAT: 760 Reading, 740 Math, 780 Writing. I have an alumni father.</p>
<p>Also rejected. White male. Very disappointed.</p>
<p>Everything happens for a reason. Don’t let your son get discouraged. If he gets into a better school, consider it a blessing. If not, he will be at the top of his class wherever he goes.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED to Fall 2013!</p>
<p>ACT: 31 superscore (32E/32M/30R/30S/12W)
UF GPA: 4.22
W GPA: 4.64
UW GPA: 3.69
8xAP, 1xDE, 14xH, 24 academic courses.
Class rank: 9/359
In-state, white male, low income.</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone know if we’re supposed to get an email or anything after we submit our enrollment deposit?</p>
<p>Hope to see all of you on campus next Fall!</p>
<p>Just FYI, there are many articles and studies that show that women are rejected from colleges at a FAR greater rate then men for the simple reason that more women apply, yet colleges like to keep the male/female ratio similar. Here’s one. </p>
<p>[Education:</a> Many Colleges Reject Women at Higher Rates Than for Men - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/070617/25gender.htm]Education:”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/articles/070617/25gender.htm)</p>
<p>And another: <a href=“Opinion | To All the Girls I've Rejected - The New York Times”>Opinion | To All the Girls I've Rejected - The New York Times;
<p>So it’s very doubtful that your son’s gender had anything to do with anything. If anything, it gave him an advantage. The poor beleaguered male bit gets old. Yes, I’m sure college admissions were easier when mostly men applied and women stayed in the kitchen.</p>
<p>Alex23…dont think they were questioning about gender but questioning if race had bearing on rejection</p>
<p>+1 Dear GatorPhysics.</p>
<p>Alex did bring in a nice piece of information in, though. </p>
<p>To aussie and nrsander, do you think your GPA could have negatively affected your chances? Possibly for that reason your UF GPAs were lower…making you less competitive?</p>
<p>Accepted to Innovation Academy!
Urm:African American male
Act:29
SAT:1970
Ec: All State wrestling, Various French involvement, sciencey stuff
Courseload: pretty heavy, about half APs when available. All gifted when offerred. </p>
<p>Excited to have my first decision back! Hopefully this sets the tone for more great things.</p>
<p>Yankees, the fact is he said “white MALE” not just white. I realize it would be racist simply to say white, which is why he brought gender into it, but as a female in a male-dominated profession, trying to raise two daughters, I find the idea that men are somehow at a disadvantage in basically ANYTHING to be offensive.</p>
<p>Moreover, when I see UF football games on TV, it doesn’t seem to me that the stands are actually filled with a disproportionate number of black people (On the field might be different). It looks way whiter than my daughter’s magnet school in Miami. So, yeah, they’re admitting PLENTY of white people. UF’s admissions have always been “holistic” and odd. My daughter admittedly got in with slightly lower grades than usual (Higher SAT than 75% I’ve seen on this board, though), but she is going in as an Agriculture major, and I believe that (along with about 10 different Agriculture-related EC activities) helped her. Her two cousins (both female, one also Hispanic), who applied in more popular majors (psychology and premed) didn’t get in (Another cousin, a white male in engineering, did get in – Go figure). All sorts of different factors go into the decision and yes, that does seem to result in the occasional top student not getting into UF – and getting into Duke or Princeton. It sucks but, honestly, blame Florida Prepaid for creating a disproportionate need.</p>
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BAHAHA!</p>
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Can you elaborate on this? I’m pretty interested in your view on Florida Prepaid.</p>
<p>Alex23 and Niquii77, if you read my thread carefully you would realize I am his mother. I am the one that said “white male”. I believe that ALL men and women should be treated equal. The threads that I have been reading show some discrepancies. I am trying to understand the admission selection. It was voiced to me that I should not have stated that my son is white. I may be naive, but I thought that every applicant would be considered on an equal scale. </p>
<p>Niquii77, my sons UW GPA is 3.4. I believe I neglected to state that my son just received his IB diploma. I am not sure how to figure the UF GPA, however I understand that points are given for IB courses, AP courses, and Honors courses. So personally I do not feel it was his GPA but anything is possible. I do feel that my son should not have received admission over the person who’s father is an alumni. So, what’s the process?</p>
<p>If you are a 3 year graduate it would say on the bottom of your status check page with instructions to send in mid year grades in january. I am one and I sent my mid year grades a few weeks ago. I found out I was accepted last night like everyone else</p>
<p>Simply put, everyone paid for these schools and they are going to send their kids there. It just wasn’t nearly this hard to get into these schools a generation ago, before Florida prepaid, and (A friend who went to UF told me her son is all impressed with her because he doesn’t realize it was much easier to get in back then). You could pretty much get into FSU if you had a 2.5 and a 900 on the SAT (I literally remember people saying, “FSU told me I had to get 10 more points on the SAT to get in” and they had like a 400-something on each section – a score you wouldn’t even admit having if you got now), and UF wasn’t that much harder. I know some truly average people my age who went to UF. You did not have to cure cancer or even plan a charity walk to get in. You just had to get decent grades and decent SATs. But Florida Prepaid has resulted in a glut. The State of Florida has built some more colleges (Florida Gulf Coast), expanded others (FIU, UCF) and converted all the community colleges to four years, but that has just pushed the older schools, UF and FSU, up into the higher, more competitive range. 20 years from now, your kids will probably be hoping and praying they can get into FIU or Florida Gulf Coast and not have to go to University of West Central Atlantic Florida, the new college they built last year;)</p>
<p>Florida Prepaid has also resulted in the state government keeping the tuition low at Florida colleges. Why? Because they have to give the VALUE of the Florida Prepaid to holders whose children go to out of state or private schools (i.e., if I decided to send my daughter to Eckerd College or Clemson, the State of Florida has to give me what Florida tuition would have cost toward it). People bought the Florida Prepaid, in part assuming that the rates at the state schools would keep pace with inflation, so that it was sort of a savings plan you could use even if your child didn’t go to a state school. But since Florida’s tuition has stayed so low, it doesn’t actually work that way. The prepaid plan might only be worth $4,000-5,000 per year, which makes it harder for families who have it to send their kids to private or out-of-state schools, as they might have done if they’d gotten a more traditional savings plan. Make sense?</p>
<p>Aussiemum, I feel your pain. However, I honestly don’t think it is based on race, just judging from the people I know who are being accepted and rejected. This is a diverse state, diverse enough that they can reject black and Hispanic people too, and I have seen them being rejected (One of my friends who is black was saying her son thought UF’s admissions were unfair because he had been rejected while someone with worse grades but better activities had gotten in). In a state like Maine, they probably take every black person they can find because they can’t find very many. </p>
<p>Their admissions are holistic. Last year, one of my friends’ sons didn’t get in with an 800 on the math SAT. His mother decided it was because he should have stayed in Boy Scouts and should have tried to be CAPTAIN of the tennis team instead of just being on it. He is happy at Indiana University now. My niece who got rejected had a 4.25 UF GPA, and she is Hispanic. She didn’t have enough ECs. It’s just HARD. I’ve been telling my daughter, “Don’t count on it” for 6 months now because honestly, NO ONE can count on it, not valedictorians or class presidents or anyone.</p>
<p>Unfortunately (Well, fortunately for my kid), it doesn’t seem like they take every single IB student to the exclusion of everyone else. My daughter goes to a school that has 6 different magnets including IB. From what I can tell, just as many people from the dance, drama, agriscience, and legal magnets got in as IB (and just as many got rejected). We have a friend whose daughter killed herself for 13 years of IB, speaks fluent German to the point where she is analyzing literature in it, and she is at UCF. They seem to value diversity of interests, not just signing up for the hardest-looking program or having a thousand people from the SAME program. </p>
<p>On the up-side, honestly, FSU is a perfectly good school. I wanted my daughter to apply there, but they didn’t have an Ag major. A lot of very nice people go there.</p>
<p>I got denied admission. It’s honestly the only school I’ve wanted to go to for the past 5 years. I had 300+ hrs and great EC’s. My SAT was a 1920 and my UF gpa was a 4.0. (I’m an IB student). I’m planning on calling the admissions office monday to talk to them. It’s my dream school and even though I got into FSU, I can’t imagine going anywhere else. I think I might even appeal. Is it possible to have a successful appeal with an upwards grade trend in senior year? I can definitely do that. They have around a 5% acceptance rate for people who have been denied. I just want to do anything that I can to get in now if at all possible. Otherwise ill consider a transfer.</p>
<p>Most people were white or hispanic, I’m Indian. In my school, more people were rejected than accepted. I counted 9 kids who were accepted with worse academic/extracurricular activities under their belt. In addition I applied for the most popular major “business”. I think that my gpa and my school itself played a role in my rejection. I could be wrong of course, UF is extremely erratic in their decisions.</p>
<p>Accepted! I was kind of nervous because my counselor was stressing the unpredictability of UF admissions and I was almost sent into panic attacks when 5:00 come around. I luckily signed on 5 minutes before and discovered my decision before the servers slowed to a standstill. </p>
<p>My UF GPA, I never bothered calculating because I always thought it was the same as the Bright Futures GPA (the one on Facts.org if you’re a Floridian). That GPA is a 4.3, though my school’s GPA is a 6.1 (IB and 12 AP classes does that to a GPA in Miami-Dade). My unweighted, sadly, isn’t as pleasantly large (think low A-). My school is also pretty competitive and although I may be top 10%, my school doesn’t send out rank, presumably because of the way that IB courses are weighted to the detriment of the students in the non-IB magnet programs. </p>
<p>SAT scores were 2270 (720 CR, 760 M, and 790 WR) which really helped but to be honest, I think it was my essays that really put me over the top. I’m a fairly decent writer and it really helped that I had a good base from my common app essay from which I wrote my UF essay.</p>
<p>I’m also Asian. I guess my SAT scores mitigate the supposed “Asians need 140 more SAT points to have an equal chance”? Being an NMF doesn’t hurt either.</p>
<p>Accepted to Fall, undeclared major
-Female, Asian, first generation, low income
-3.6 UW, 5.3 W (Miami-Dade public school)
-Top 3% (school’s not very competitive…pretty average)
-29 on the ACT
-1770 on the SAT
-Will have taken 10 APs at the end of the year (taking 5 of them this year)
-Rest of my classes were gifted/honors
-Had a job Junior year at an OD office/optical (and have been in the Optometry program at my school for all four years)
-Ok EC’s (I’ve had a lot of family obligations/issues that have kept me from doing more, and I explained them in the short response)
-200 community service hours
-Good essay (in my humble opinion of course~)</p>
<p>Surprised I got in, but very happy and grateful.
Don’t want to get into the race issue someone brought up because it’d ruin my happiness.
but I will say, I know plenty of Hispanics and Blacks who did not get accepted, even with impressive stats.</p>
<p>I think we should all just agree that UF’s admissions is as unpredictable/confusing as the end of a Christopher Nolan movie. (WAS it a dream? and I still have no idea what Memento was about, tbh)</p>