<p>Not to freak anyone out but a couple of years ago UCSD in San Diego sent out a bunch of acceptances by mistake.</p>
<p>the acceptance rate is 22% this year??</p>
<p>I thought about that too, but I don’t think so. It says they had 27,000 applicants for 6,500 slots, but the fact is, no matter how desirable we think UF is, there are people for whom it is not their first choice. For example, people who are getting into even better colleges. My daughter’s friend got accepted to UF last year and also got scholarships from UPenn and Cornell. Guess what? She turned UF down and went to UPenn. So I’m sure they accept more than the bare 6,500 people. This table here says they accepted over 11,000 people, or 42% in a year with a similar number of applications. [University</a> of Florida Admissions Statistics and Chances | Parchment - College admissions predictions.](<a href=“University of Florida Admissions Statistics and Chances | Parchment - College admissions predictions.”>University of Florida Admissions Statistics and Chances | Parchment - College admissions predictions.)</p>
<p>And yankees, yeah, that wouldn’t freak anyone out at all.</p>
<p>UF accepts about 11k people but there are only spots open for about 6500. So what if all 11k people accept their admission offer? Luckily we don’t have to worry about that because slightly less than half that will be accepted will go somewhere else.</p>
<p>Im sure they accept extras because some will end up going elsewhere. But 11k? Not sure if surprised… or false info. Just seems a bit hard to accept that about half admitted students decline.</p>
<p>Adding up the number of admits on one of the graphs on this page gets you 11,925 accepted.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Florida - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/ugrad/frprofile.html]University”>Freshman - How To Apply - University of Florida)</p>
<p>Corn, no, based upon all the friends we’ve had over the years going through college acceptances, that sounds about right. There are the people who go to the even more prestigious schools (Harvard, etc.), people who want to go to UF because of money but get a scholarship to their dream school (Miami, for example, ranks even higher in US News, is particularly well-known in some areas such as marine biology, and gives a lot of scholarships – we know people who heard from them last week while waiting for UF), and, on the other side, the people who, at the last minute, decide to stay in town and go to FIU or whatever their hometown is (We had a friend whose son did that last year). People choose different schools for different reasons, and it’s not always prestige. Also, one school might have a better program in something than UF has (For example, choosing FSU over UF for music or theater). </p>
<p>People who apply to good schools generally apply to more than one. Right now, my daughter is waiting to hear from two schools in the next week, UF and Clemson. They are really very similar schools, similar ranks in US News, similarly good programs in her area of study, similar rural locations within their states, and similar even in football (The only way these schools are NOT similar actually weighs in Clemson’s favor; Clemson is about half the size). But, because we are Florida residents, if my daughter gets accepted to both, she will go to UF and turn down the equally prestigious Clemson. If she were a South Carolina girl, she’d choose Clemson and turn down UF. And if she lived in some third state, she would be equally likely to choose either. The fact is, most people apply to and get accepted by multiple universities, and that affects each university’s yield.</p>
<p>According to this article in US News, Florida’s yield is around 54%, pretty high but yeah, about half. [National</a> Universities Where Most Accepted Students Enroll - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2013/01/28/national-universities-where-most-accepted-students-enroll]National”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2013/01/28/national-universities-where-most-accepted-students-enroll)</p>
<p>Interesting. I know extra seats come about, but never thought it’d be twice the number of slots. Essentially, it means twice the people will hear the good news from what i previously had expected.</p>
<p>Well, UF is MY daughter’s first choice, so I sure hope what got posted Wednesday night wasn’t wrong. That said, she has been accepted to some really good schools already (and will get in to Clemson, whose admissions seem more straightforward by-the-numbers), so she won’t die.</p>
<p>THAT said, I have heard about some people who got rejected Wednesday night, so they’re obviously hoping the opposite.</p>
<p>Good luck to all tonight!</p>
<p>Since there was a leak of uncertain admission results, I shall therefore draw a line:</p>
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<p>Anyone’s admission status posted below this line shall be around 6 PM of Feb 8 and later. All who is admitted below this line, congrats on becoming a Crocodile!</p>
<p>Thank, CORN!</p>
<p>An hour and thirty seven minutes people! Lets do this!</p>
<p>Is it 5 or 6 PM? Email from UF says 6 PM, website portal indicated it will be up at 5. Oh we’ll,what’s an extra hour?</p>
<p>my hearts pounding 100 mph</p>
<p>lol not up yet xD</p>
<p>It’s not up AND the admissions home page now says, “Friday evening, February 8” (and it DID say 5:00). Urgh!</p>
<p>Application status is now available! And super slow, they must have a lot of demand on the servers</p>
<p>…I just realized…I didn’t make my account…</p>
<p>Dang it.</p>
<p>Ouch. In any case, it looks like there’s been a crash, because I’m not getting through all the way. Has anyone actually logged in and seen their status?</p>
<p>I got an error message.</p>
<p>Mine just crashed as well.</p>