ACCEPTED FALL 2017
Unweighted GPA: 3.86
Weighted GPA: 4.55
ACT: 31 (did not send)
State Of Residence: FL
Male / Female: Female
Summer or Fall: Fall
Class rank: 4
AP’s: (all junior year) APUSH, AP Lang, AP Chem, AP Calc AB
Extracurriculars: 4 year varsity cross country/captain, French Club founder/president, Academic olympics team member/captain, National Honor Society Member, numerous part time jobs
Senior Schedule: AP Bio, AP Stats, AP US Gov, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, Honors Physics, Theology (required at my school every year)
Is UF your first choice?: No
Other schools you applied for: UCF (accepted), University of Maryland (accepted), Princeton (deferred SCEA), Harvard, Yale, Brown, Johns Hopkins, McGill (Canada), University of Virginia
Major/Field of Study: Physics/Neuroscience
Thank you , I may accept a scholarship into the honors somewhere else… I personally feel that some of the students I know that were excepted to UF , it could certainly hurt the reputation of UF… We are shocked with some students that got in… whatever life goes on…I’m waiting on Cornell, had an awesome interview with them…
I heard and I’m not sure if it’s true that UF doesn’t like Florida prepaid, they take a lot of kids out of state with lower stats …
@herosaurus17 I’ve never heard of anyone taking an AP class on FLVS. At my school we are required to have all AP/IB classes Junior/Senior year and at least 2-3 Freshman/Sophomore year (Some people take 5 their Sophomore year), but some people at my school take Zero Period classes, so they can end up with 22 AP/IB classes taken at the end of the year. I think most people at my school graduate with anywhere from 16 to 19, but I do have a friend who will have taken 22 by the time we graduate. I guess that’s why we send so many kids to UF?
This system varies per county, but as far as I know the 3 main high schools over here require their magnet students to take a lot of APs.
@kit4kat It’s not just Florida Prepaid. It’s the fact that OOS students are paying like 30k in tuition fees each year compared to most of their students who have significantly lower tuition costs.
does anyone know anything about the average statistics of oos students that receive scholarships?
I know it… In state tuition is supposed to be significant lower and is meant for the students in their state…
At a recent admissions event, a UF rep stated that OOS students accepted have the same academic profile as in-state kids. However, OOS kids at UF only make up around 5 percent of the undergraduate population which is very low for a public flagship university. While FSU is similar in having only 5 percent OOS, other peers have much higher rates as follows:
UGA: 13%
GT: 33%
UNC-CH: 18%
Uva: 27%
Clemson: 31%
UF offers limited amounts of merit aid for OOS students, and they don’t advertise or promote the school nearly as much as others do, even within the state of Florida. The merit aid that is given is decided holistically, and UF does not publish merit requirements like other schools do. Here is the description that UF provides:
So what does “upper middle 50% of our admitted student profile” mean?
@kit4kat Oh, I thought you were saying that FL Prepaid was the main reason. My bad.
Even then, I don’t even think they see if you have it or not during applications.
@Zinhead I think “upper middle 50% of our admitted student profile” means top 50% based on GPA/Rigor/Test scores, and then the rest of the sentence is “combined with a diverse and engaged résumé and essay response” which is holistic factors. So, I read it as top 50% stats + holistic (mumbo jumbo stuff) factors.
@sushipanda Be careful projecting out UF’s overall results, based on a few postings on CC and your own HS results. UF’s admissions has seemed a bit random for years, due to how it considers those holistic factors, some, such as in-state geographical location don’t come out in a short stat/resume dump we see on CC. They also want to build out the class looking for certain skill sets/abilities. Are they looking for more dance/music students and less STEM? More student leaders and less writers? Who knows how they weight “ability” when going through the process.
It’s a similar process used by schools like HYP, MIT, etc., except those schools have much higher requirements for GPA/test scores (as compared to UF). UF on the other hand is willing to take a student with much lower Test scores, if they have other qualities UF values.
UF doesn’t have an issue with Florida Pre-Paid students. During the admission process, UF doesn’t know if a person has Florida Prepaid. That doesn’t come out till later.
I’m sure it’s frustrated with Florida Pre-paid, because it gives the state legislature a strong incentive to keep tuition increases to a minimum (otherwise the state has to keep paying for those tuition rate hikes). Interesting how Florida Pre-paid even helps students that don’t have it, by keeping in-state tuition rate hikes to a minimum.
The out of state students that I know from previous years are very strong students, regardless of how much they pay in tuition. That said, I also know a recent FL applicant who was more than qualified, who was turned down. It does seem a bit random at times.
@mdchang99 The thing is that if they can’t offer you as a freshman they will pt you thru as a transfer student. The only catch is that if you don’t qualify for the college major you applied for you won’t get in.
Still waiting for my packet to arrive in the mail.
For the honors application, do they see your initial application as well? I don’t want to write about something similar to my admissions essay if they do in fact see both. Also, how do they know the GPA of the applicant? Do I need to send my transcripts to UF before the Honors application deadline?
I got the presidential scholarship! This is going to be a hard decision once other decisions come out April1
when is the honors app due
How do you know? @hopefulundertone
I received the Presidential Scholarship as well. I received an email around 8:10 CST. I’m very excited and was not expecting this at all!
Anyone OOS receive a scholarship yet?
So if I did not receive a scholarship email by now, does that mean I did not get one?