UF 2021 OFFICIAL DISCUSSION PAGE!!!

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Decision: Accepted
School/major: Bioengineering

Objective:
SAT I: 1960 (old)
ACT: 32
SAT II: Bio-E: 720
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
Weighted GPA: 4.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 6%
AP/AICE: AP Enviro, AP World, AICE Bio AS and A, AICE Econ AS and A, AICE Thinking Skills AS and A, AICE Marine AS, AICE Enviro AS, AICE English Lang AS and A, AICE Psych AS, AICE Geo AS
Senior Year Course Load: AP GoPo, AICE Marine A, AICE US A, AICE Lit AS, 3 honors + 2 online classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ISEF, Siemens, Young Naturalist, State Science Fair, STS, two publications, AICE diploma w/ distinction

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): NHS, National Art (Officer), Science NHS, Rho Kappa, National English, SciOly, Envirothon, Brain Bee, National Environmental Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: Internship at environmental center
Volunteer/Community Service: 400+ hours, mostly environmental or mentoring in sciences.
Summer Activities: Residential programs, dual enrollment

Other:
School Type: Public

Reflection:
Strengths: Science Fair
Weaknesses: GPA, Essay
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: It’s about more than the score

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Does anyone know the 75th percentile ACT score for this incoming class at UF?

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@collegeconfidential2 from UF. Middle 50%

UF gpa 4.3 - 4.6
SAT 1280 - 1430
ACT 28 - 32

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@SushiNinj But I thought they said that the average GPA was 4.4 this year.

Does that just mean that most students who got in had a 4.4, even though they were below 50th percentile?

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@sushipanda honestly I’m not sure how the numbers crunch. I just took the data from the denied students page that UF released a few days after decisions came out. I agree the numbers seem a bit high.

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@SushiNinj can you link this page that they released?

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@Monkey288195

http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/enroll/denied

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???

on the UF News page it said the average GPA was 4.4 this year.

UF plz

http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2017/02/uf-applications-hit-a-record-high.php

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@sushipanda my daughter’s was 5.2 weighted but I’m not sure how that translates to the recalculated UF one

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@sushipanda The middle 50% is from the range of 25% --> 75%
Thus, they are right when they said that the uf gpa is 4.3 - 4.6. It does not contradict the article at all.
As such, the absolute 50% could be 4.45, but they round down to 4.4.
25% is 4.3 and 75% is 4.6 if that makes sense.

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@Kysanx

I googled around and found out that the 50th percentile doesn’t necessarily mean average. So the 4.4 could indicate that though it was only like 40th-ish percentile, the average GPA of all accepted students was that. I don’t think they said 4.4 simply to round down, because they typically address the 0.5. The Co2020’s average was stated to be 4.35.

“I have 5 students and their ACT scores are as follows: 30, 30, 30, 30, and 36. Then the ACT average is 31.2. If I go around reporting 31.2 as the ACT average a student with a 30 ACT has very little concept of how their testing fits into the picture. They can’t see that the single 36 is pulling the average upwards.” - Vanderbilt’s Admission page.

I’m guessing they mean something like that. I kind of want to email them since I’m dying to know too…I’m ending the year with around a 4.45 or 4.475 UF Weighted GPA, so depending on the context I could either be 50th or 30th percentile next year when they increase the standards .

Plus, with their reported SAT stats the 50th percentile should be 1355, yet the reported average was 1349. They wouldn’t randomly unevenly round down, so I think by average the quote from Vanderbilt’s Admissions Office would apply.

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@sushipanda

The 4.3 to 4.6 is the middle 50%. So 4.3 is the 25th percentile and 4.6 is the 75th percentile. 4.4 is the average or the 50th percentile.

I hope that helps.

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@CaucAsianDad How can it be 50th percentile when the middle number between 4.3 and 4.6 is 4.45?

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^Close enough. :wink:

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Keep in mind the decimal place accuracy of the data provided by UF.

4.3 to 4.6

The real range could be 4.26 to 4.56 or it could be 4.34 to 4.64. So don’t spend too much time fretting over these numbers. Take the middle 50% for what it is in terms of accuracy and move on. Your application essay will matter a lot more than a 0.05 point variation in your GPA. :slight_smile:

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@sushipanda

You can not expect a normal distribution, with GPAs that high skewing is expected. (Likely there are many more in the 4.3 - 4.4 range than in the the 4.4 - 4.5 range, even fewer in the 4.5 - 4.6.)

In this case likely 4.4 is the arithmetic mean and 4.45 is the median.

As @Gator88NE said, your GPA is good enough to not hold you back. You will probably help yourself more at this point to be thinking about a leadership position for your senior year.

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@CaucAsianDad Ah, that makes a lot more sense.

And yeah, I’ve been looking into that. I got lucky this year and managed to get a small one in a club with like 7-8 people… : /

Do the leadership positions have to be in school related clubs? Because I was technically a leader in a volunteering activity for this year.

But honestly, I don’t think I’ll be able to get a big leadership position like Class President or something like that. Even though I was committed to Student Government and some other stuff for a while, these major roles end up just being a popularity contest.

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@sushipanda I would say colleges are looking for initiative. They want to see you are out doing something as opposed to going to school, then coming home and playing video games all night. Hahaha. Leadership skills in anything, anywhere look great!

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@sushipanda one of my son’s leadership positions this year was squad leader in marching band. He was responsible for training maybe a dozen or so kids in reading coordinates and learning marching techniques etc. It doesn’t have to be an amazing “class president” leadership position. You just have to show you can take initiative and responsibility.

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@CaucAsianDad What about things like honors/achievements? I heard there was a question like that on the application, and I honestly have no idea what would be considered an honor. Do all UF students have to have some sort of worthwhile honors award that’s great enough for them to write about?