<p>Daughter was just accepted! She applied on 8 Oct so it was pretty quick. She’s happy because UCF is her second pick after UF.</p>
<p>lol is anyone else here waitin till UF comes out?</p>
<p>I got accepted for the Fall 2012 term 
, with a 3.2UW and 3.9W GPA. Act- 27 composite. UCF received everything September 29th and notified me today. Good luck to you all :)</p>
<p>My daughter who worked so hard for the last 4 years with nothing but college on her mind has I think blown it with her SAT/ACT. She has 3.95 unweighted 4.4 weighted. Ranked 10th out of 500 in her class. NHS, FBLA, Sports, Community Service Hours, and works 20+ hrs a week. Well I don’t think any of that means a thing with an 1100 (math/reading SAT). Too busy to study for it and now it’s come back to bite her in the butt. I really think they put a lot of weight into the SAT/ACT scores. She applied the 1st week back in the summer and hasn’t heard anything. Might be community college and a broken heart. With my son who is a freshman, he is going to put less energy into GPA and more into SAT because that’s where it’s at.</p>
<p>My daughter just received a strange phone call from UCF. The person on the phone stated that she was a UCF student and was just wondering if she had any questions about the school. Of course, the only questions my daughter had was about admission and when she will receive a decision, which the student could not answer since she is not admission. So, what was the point of the phone call. I read from other posts that some have received the same phone call. We haven’t visited the school yet (slated for Nov. 19th) so it can’t be because we did a tour.</p>
<p>@TammySpenc- My daughter is in the same boat. Her SAT/ACT scores will be her deterance from being accepted into the University she truly want to be aparto of. She has had taken the honors classes, AP (4 classes) and DE (2 classes) and maintained her grades up in the high B. She is also very involved with Community Service, clubs, honor societies, competitive cheerleading and employment (lifeguard- summer, pet sit and babysit during the school year). She is very well rounded. Schools put to much emphasis on the SAT/ACt scores as the determining factor of whether a child will succeed in college. Having high test scores doesn’t make a person a productive person once they are in the workfield. She is so stressed out about this application process. She has received an acceptance letter from UWF, so I guess that’s a good sign. My husband and I definitely believe it’s more competitive to go to college now than when we went.</p>
<p>Honestly, tests are more accurate than a GPA. GPA is honestly BS, it’s all about the teachers you have. Some teachers are really easy to give out As, and some rarely do. Also at some schools the courses are harder even if it’s just a basic course. I know my school is in the top 50 in the nation and it is obviously more of a challenge than other local schools. This is why they made tests that are standardized because it is easier to compare people no matter what school they come from. Although it still doesn’t predict your intelligence, tests are more accurate than GPA.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all teachers are created equal. Some can not teach their material and the students suffer. My point is SAT/ACT shouldn’t be the emphasis on admission. It should be the well-rounded of the person. A prime example, both my husband and I are both have a Master’s degree. However, my husband did not test well on SAT but he was admitted to his University. So, standardized tests doesn’t guarantee a person will do well in college. I have many friends who scored extremely high on the SAT when I was in high school and when they went to college all they did was party and didn’t graduate. All I’m saying that scoring a high score on the SAT doesn’t guarantee for a student to do well in college and that someone that do not test well will not do well in college. Everything should be weighted equally ie gpa, ec, cs, and SAT/ACT.</p>
<p>I totally agree. I believe in the future more schools will have interviews even though it would be a lengthy process. The whole college admission process is flawed.</p>