@Gator88NE thanks as always Gator! soooooo youre saying theres a chance lol mines in top 5% of a very large class of almost 800 (30ish). Weighted GPA counts his SAT is a tick below middle of the road but of course we are nervous accepted everywhere except miami (that threw me for a curve)
I’m assuming that the average GPA of 4.4 on a 5.0 scale (where an A would be a 5.0)? Otherwise it would have to be a weighted rating? Is this correct? My S has a 1500 SAT really good ECs and an unweighted GPA of around 3.6 or 3.7/4.0 which would translate to a 4.55/5.0. That 4.4 scares me unless it’s out of a 5.0 scale
@Jm6844 It is weighted. The way that UF recalculates the GPA is that they add 0.5 to Honors courses and 1.0 to AP and IB courses. So, an A in AP Calc is 5.0. A in Honors Algebra is 4.5. They only use “Academic” courses, so don’t include band, health, PE, etc. A- = A. B+ = B. So, no 3.33 for a B+, it is a 3.0.
@gold523 yes we are in the same boat as far as weighted gpa - my son is at a 4.7 and has maxed out the APs at his school and actually took extras on line - but his UF GPA is dragged down by the fact that all classes for freshman and soph year are maxed out as honors level and even spanish 3 and 4 are honors only - one and 2 are completely unweighted! No option for honors. He took the minimum allowable unweighted classes too. LOL so it is what it is. We don’t have an ib program and nobody is allowed to take dual enrollment until Jr year and you are forced to take a college readiness dual enrollment class as your first one as part of the program requirements - such a waste. So not much time to do many of those. They offer a few at the school but only one that doesn’t have an AP equiv. so senior year you have to go off campus to take any others and that proves very difficult if not impossible to schedule with their required 4 classes on campus… at least if you want to get your APs in LOL. We are lucky to have Florida Virtual school to augment his schedule when he can’t get the classes he wants to all fit into his campus schedule or they aren’t offered at his school… like AP Macro. I have a friend whose daughter is applying to UF from Maryland and their school doesn’t pay for AP testing. So most kids graduate with only a few APs. Our school pays so many top kids have at least 9 or 10. That’s why I think they somehow have to look at you in the context of others applying from your class…though it doesn’t seem fair if your class is very competitive to just take fewer great kids in favor of less competitive kids elsewhere but I’m sure they have a science to it that they feel works after all these years… we just have to trust the system I guess…right now I’m putting my faith in my double crossed fingers and my both my kids swear by Zaxbys. They eat it before every major exam and both my daughter and her best friend (who was very nervous also about UF) brought their laptops to Zaxby’s and logged on to get their decisions there after eating their traditional chicken finger meal lol. Desperate times call for desperate measures I suppose… all I know is it worked!!!
I’ll be at Zaxby’s for dinner Friday night at 530pm LOL taking no chances lol.
UF does consider what classes are offered at the HS. They don’t want to punish anyone if the classes are simply not offered. They want to know that the student took the most (in general) rigorous curriculum of classes, offered at that HS.
They also will take MORE students from elite/high performing HS, but they make it a point to also take students from lower performing HS (just not as many). That’s why a student from a rural HS may get in with a lower GPA and test scores, than one at a magnet HS.
That’s also why it’s hard to compare students against each other. A GPA has to be consider in context of how rigorous was the class load, and how did they do compared to their peers at that same HS. And then, how do you compare EC’s, which are subjective? :-?
I miss the old UF application. I feel like there was more room to explain ECs than on the coalition. All those character limits really make it difficult to articulate what they did in so few words…or I wish they accepted resumes like other schools do. My son was getting really frustrated with that… and not knowng what he could abrieviate and still have it be understood. Tough balance there.
I finally found my school’s school profile on the website, despite asking for it for months from guidance. They finally just posted it. What a joke! They talk about all their great AP classes they offer. Nowhere in the school profile do they mention you can’t even take APs freshmen year, and forget AP language. They say they offer but never do because there’s never enough kids that want to take it . My daughter did mention this in the app (albeit in a more tactful way! Lol) so hopefully it’s taken into account. Our school profile does not help in any way. 