Date Applied: Early September
Unweighted GPA: 3.55
Weighted Recalculated UF GPA: 4.35
SAT - 1380
SAT II’s -
ACT: -
State of Residence: Florida, (Alachua County, because apparently that makes a difference according to something I read here)
Male/Female - Male
Summer or Fall: Summer 2017
Class Rank - Top 20% out of 300 something, I don’t remember.
AP’s - Human Geo, World History, European History, English Lang/Comp, Environmental Science, US History, English Lit/Comp. (More from Senior Year)
IB’s - PreCalculus, IB Math SL (Calc AB), IB Biology SL, IB Physics SL, IB Spanish SL (More from Senior Year)
Senior Schedule (IB English HL, IB History of the Americas HL, IB Biology HL, AP Calculus BC, IB Spanish 5, IB Chemistry SL)
Course Rigor - 18 AP/IB classes total. School makes every IB kid take around this amount. Everything else was Honors/Pre-IB. Took Algebra 1/Geometry Honors in middle school but I got C’s in them, which I believe is the weak point in my application. Hopefully they look at the fact that it was in 7th and 8th grade, and that I haven’t gotten a C since while maintaining a pretty decent upwards curve.
Extra Curricular’s: Biology Club, Key Club, Debate (Forensics), Seventh Generation (Environmental Club)
Leadership positions in CAS project (Coordinator of library program, etc. Helped rebuild playgrounds, organized food drives, generic stuff that most kids at my school end of doing)
Karate, 3rd Degree Blackbelt 9th-11th. (Technically a white lie since I quit around the time 11th grade started, but I don’t think it’ll make a difference)
Community Service - On paper, only about 110. However, CAS, IB’s version of community service, isn’t recorded or sent to our official transcript, so in reality I have about 160+.
Is UF your first choice? Yep
Other schools you applied for: UCF
Major/Field of Study: Nuclear Engineering
Comments: From a renowned IB school in Gainesville, which had a 99% acceptance rate to UF last year, and at least above a 90% every year before. I don’t know if it’s going to be the same this year since my GC said it would be harder this year, but I still feel like I’m in the safe zone. Hopefully my school’s luck doesn’t run out this year 
@PupuLovesPickles
Honestly, with your stats and the information specifically about your IB school, I think you have a REALLY good shot. I’m looking at the same two schools! Unless your graduating class is extremely competitive, you pretty much HAVE to be in the top 80% of your class which, if the acceptance rate for your high school is truly 90%, makes you a shoe in. They love IB kids (if you score well on your IB exams especially), or so I’ve heard (I left IB for AP/DE in 10th grade). But also, my guidance counselors used to give me really wacky stats on the acceptance rate of IB students at FSU/UF ect. that were pretty unrealistic. I don’t know if the quality of the IB program varies extremely from school to school (with the IB program at your school being superb), but I know that in IB program at my school, only a select 20 out of about 130 got into UF last year.
Also, off topic but I was wondering if UF has a dual enrollment or early admissions program within your county? I tried to dual-enroll FROM Brevard county into UCF’s early admissions in orange county but the state doesn’t support cross-county dual enrolling. Weird, but at least I explored that idea.
1 month left until decisions!
Good luck guys! Such an exciting time for you! I was in your place last year this time! I hope whatever happens, you still push on and don’t let the decision weigh you down. For those that do get accepted, you’re going to love it here! There really are a lot of opportunities (something I underestimated before). 
How big does the campus feel? Is a bike or scooter necessary?
Applied: End of October 2016
GPA: 3.4 unweighted, 4.3 weighted
Gender: M
Ethnicity: White
Top 11% in class
SAT: 1250
ACT: 25
Total of 9 AP course taken.
336 service hours
State of Residency: Florida
President of NHS and an environmental club
UF Legacy
Applied for Summer
UF is my first choice.
@madisonskipper That’s very odd. Do you happen to know their curriculum? I’ve noticed that at some IB schools the kids don’t have to take as many AP/IB courses as we do. Perhaps you come from a very competitive county?
Were the unrealistic stats you mentioned unrealistic because they were too high or too low? I don’t think they’d reject so many IB kids, hmm.
We probably also have a higher acceptance rate because the program is known among the admissions officers because it’s local, and we have a reputation for being really rigorous even though most of the kids don’t find it too deadly.
I don’t think the IB scores are used to determine anything.
Also, I think demographics do have a major factor now that I’m looking at it.
I noticed that you’re from Brevard County, which after a google search shows that it has a population of around 550k, whereas Alachua County has only about 250k. However, UF accepted more than double the amount of students from Alachua than from Brevard according to the data they put on their website.
Maybe not as many people from Brevard tend to apply, I have no idea. I still don’t know how so many IB kids would be rejected. The only explanation I can come up with is that the GC was just saying that to scare you or their coursework was really really light.
Sorry for the constant posts, but it won’t let me edit for some reason. I just saw your question concerning early admissions/dual enrollment, and as far as I know, it doesn’t exist here. I may be wrong, though, I’ve just never heard anyone mention it.
@Trisherella - the UF campus feels huge to me (we live close by). Many students have bikes and scooters, though I personally would not buy my son a scooter. He gets by with walking and mom drop-offs. He lives on campus but I have been known to swing by Gale Lemerand Drive to pick him up and drop him at Norman. In a pinch. 
One good thing is that Gainesville has an excellent bus system and UF students ride for free.
@Casey2017 Your GPA seems to be on the lower side. There is no way that your recalculated weighted GPA can be 0.9 points higher than your unweighted GPA if you only took 9 AP classes. I took 18 and everything else was honors and my weighted recalculated GPA was only 0.8 higher.
@PupuLovesPickles
I honestly think it’s just because our IB program is SO small it’s about to disappear from the school entirely.
You’re right though it’s not possible for @Casey 2017 to have a 4.3 as her recalculated UF GPA (unless she did extra DE) BUT that could surely still be her weighted as recorded at her high school considering not all schools weight the same & some even weight above a 5.0, which is probably the case here.
@madisonskipper I don’t think it’s because of size. At the IB Program here, our IB class is only around 100 which is less than your IB school’s class. Last year it was only a 99% acceptance rate because 87 kids applied and 86 got in, it wasn’t like a 99% acceptance rate in a class of 500 or anything.
The only reason why I’m 20th percentile is because about 260ish kids are in the “Major Program” and are just zoned to my school. Most of them only take 1 or 2 AP classes (if they decide to take them at all) and they’re known to tarnish our reputation as a school because they don’t take academics seriously and score relatively low on standardized tests.
@PupuLovesPickles Well keep in mind that although our IB class size was around 130, only around 30 applied and 20 got accepted. I have no idea as to why there were so few applicants but it might be because dual enrolling is a big thing around here and so is UCF, just like UF is big pretty big around where you are. Also, I know exactly what you’re talking about ranking wise as my school ranks on unweighted. Our valedictorian last year had only taken 2 AP’s, but I guess its’s just about equal opportunity for those who aren’t as academically gifted? I reported my weighted ranking to UF though because it puts me in the top 2%. IMO, valedictorians should be based on weighted GPA. That way people are rewarded for taking a greater amount of challenging classes but hey, I don’t make the rules. So in a nut shell, I’m glad UF recalculates each freshman’s GPA anyways.
@madisonskipper Oh that makes so much more sense. I’m guessing the 10 who were rejected weren’t the best anyways?
But I don’t care about my rank as long as the university doesn’t hold it against me. I reported my weighted ranking of 20th percentile that is pretty accurate, though I’m sure a few kids from Major Program ended up ranking higher since they took only Honors or something. My unweighted ranking is much, much lower and I’m so glad I had the option to not report it.
I’m so confused about this GPA. When I look at UF’s stats for last years incoming freshman, it says 4.1 - 4.4 Average. Are these GPA stats the freshmans total high school GPA or are these stripped to academic core. Example , My GPA is 4.67, that’s my total GPA with some electives. my unweighted total GPA is 3.7. Then my weighted core GPA is 4.085, unweighted core is 3.56. Can someone tell me which GPA it is ,total or academic for the average of 4.1-4.4?
@kit4kat That’s actually inaccurate. That was for the admissions of the Class of 2017, 4 years ago. Now it’s 4.2 to 4.5. What they do is they weight and recalculate your GPA. For example, if you had an AP/IB class, you’d be able to get up to 5 points. If you had an honors class (discounting band/art, etc.) you would have an extra 0.5 points added. Non-academic classes are okay as long as they are AP. For example, if someone took AP Photography, it could still be considered an academic class since it’s AP, but if it was regular Photography, then it wouldn’t.
Thank you so much for clearing this up, I took a dual enrollment Business class, so UF would count that as an academic? so what you are saying is the 4.2 to 4.5 is the UF weighted academic core GPA for incoming freshmen?
@kit4kat Here’s a link that you can scroll down to and find the average admit stats for those admitted for Fall 2016.
http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/apply/freshman/freshmanapp
The middle 50% of admits have a 4.2 to a 4.5 SO essentially that means that if you have above a 4.5 you would be in the top 25% of admits where if you have below a 4.2 you’d be in the lower 25% of admits. Keep in mind that they basically reserve a good percentage of that lower 25% for people coming in for athletics, first family member in college, the top ten program, etc.
To calculate your UF GPA (which are what the stats above are based on) you need to find the average of all your CORE classes (science, math, english, history, social studies) based on the following weighting (these are weights for grades at an A) ex: an A in AP Physics would be a 5.0 but a B in AP Physics would be a 4.0.
5.0 AP/DE/IB/AICE
4.5 honors/ Pre-IB/ Pre-AICE
4.0 non-honors, general classes
You WOULD have your business class counted as an academic course because it falls under the category of social science. A class like HOPE or gym would not be considered academic core.
The way I got my weighted up was by taking 23 DE classes and only 5 AP. Since these are both weighted the same, you could say it turned out pretty well.
Is AP Photography even an offered AP course? I don’t think it is.
@kit4kat Yep, but if you’re on the lower end of the scale you’re not safe. You better have some hooks or something that can allow them to overlook the slightly lower GPA. 4.2 is 25th percentile for UF, and I know that the only kid who was rejected from my school last year had a 4.225, even though his SAT scores were 50th percentile for UF.
Also, I think it should count? I’d ask the admissions office tbh, I wouldn’t see why it wouldn’t be counted if they count AP Arts