<p>This thread will be for posting you have been accepted into the University of Florida.
Please post if you were accepted or rejected, and your stats.</p>
<p>Me:
Everything has been sent, waiting on a decision. Housing app has been filled out too. (It's my life long dream to go here lol!)
3.45 GPA, 1550 SAT (Retaking next week; studied this time)
SGA Treasurer, Student Ambassador, Emerging Leader, First chair trumpet in the Jazz Ensemble, etc</p>
<p>Man you guys are super early this year. You’ve got a loooong way to go lol.</p>
<p>haha yeah. You’ve still got some 4 and a half months until you find out whether or not you’re accepted. I recommend forgetting about it entirely until at least four of the months are up.</p>
<p>I agree with these guys. You’re going to go nuts if not.</p>
<p>haha this is almost me…I am nervously fidgeting until February 13th…</p>
<p>I wish time could move faster!!</p>
<p>Until then, enjoy life!</p>
<p>yes…hafta wait. (thought it was 2/12 after 6pm? LOL)
My daughter applied back at the end of July I believe, maybe very beginning of August.</p>
<p>her:
3.8 GPA (unweighted) 4.02 weighted, 1720 (new way - adding all three- YES, I KNOW, NOT VERY HIGH)
ACT -25 (i know, not the highest either) but I think she has GREAT extracurriculars / volunteering - she eventually wants to be a vet so she has mega hours with an equine vet, small animal vet and many many hours with a small private barn…and…IMHO, a pretty good essay (she hopes).
also…
National Honor Society, top 11% of her class, National Spanish Honor Society.</p>
<p>…yes, hard to wait until Feb 12/13. Why do they do that?</p>
<p>^Because they have some 28,000 applications to go through.</p>
<p>Yes 
I assumed that…but what about UCF, they get MANY applications as well - and although different school, they do rolling 
OH well…</p>
<p>we will wait…tap tap tap LOL</p>
<p>^ UCF is also a lot less selective than UF and accepts more students.</p>
<p>Yes, not quite as selective, I agree…but I just wish they could just start evaluating applications (while being selective LOL) and start accepting instead of waiting till Feb, thats all
Wishful thinking…but we’ll wait…ho hum ;-)</p>
<p>Did anyone else get a letter asking to submit a deposit on housing? I thought that was different; had not heard of that from any other school. There’s a non-refundable processing fee. Not real excited about sending money if I don’t know if she is going to get in or not.</p>
<p>You have no choice if you want a chance at your first housing choice. Is it $25 or $30, can’t remember? Your priority number for housing is based on getting that money in. That holds your slot in the housing line and gives you a chance at ending up in the housing situation you might want. Remember, if your d wants to room with a particular person, housing is selected for you based upon which student has the worse priority number. So, if your d gets a great number and her potential roommate has a lousier number than she, her housing will be based on that person’s number.</p>
<p>We lost our deposit both times, LOL, as S went to UCF and D decided to live off-campus with friends. Oh well … only money, right. (geesh!)</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Yes, we (unwillingly LOL) sent the housing deposit, I believe was $25 probably back in August after we got confirmation of my D’s application / received. At first I thought, how crazy, but I figured - what the heck, might as well. In the scheme of things $25 is what it is…and at least if she happens to get accepted, she’ll be able to get housing…(and a great place in line I must say) LOL.</p>
<p>Honestly, we don’t have money to throw in the garbage, but who knows…Actually when UCF opens up their “window” to accept housing applications, they want more than that…so I guess in the scheme of things, $25 was a bargain. I believe UCF is at leats $100. , actually I think its more.</p>
<p>^^
UCF is $100 for summer, $250 for fall. Summer deposit is non-refundable. The fall deposit is $150 refundable if you cancel by a certain date. So, yes … it is more expensive. All deposits are applied toward your housing, which, of course, doesn’t help you if you don’t go there. LOL</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>On decision day, the whole server will crash or will be tremendously slow.</p>
<p>^lol yes. I was able to check around 5:45pm and get my decision a few minutes early, but most of my friends had to keep refreshing until after 7pm.</p>
<p>Unless I’m not up to date on UF’s latest application process, I feel like this thread is only about 4 months too early.</p>
<p>It is 4 months too early, but ? LOL</p>
<p>I believe the request to make the non-refundable deposit is automatic if you apply. My son applied a few years ago and I gave UF the money for the housing deposit. Even though he had a 1380 (CR+M) 2010 total SAT, 4.7 weighted GPA, computing awards at the state level, a whole family of alumni and he is an Eagle Scout - he didn’t get in. Apparently he was in-between being a true freshman and a transfer student because he had 26 hours of college credit. Anyway, he is at UCF and happy. Our daughter will also apply with no college credit but with a 1520 (2320) SAT, National Merit Semi-finalist, currently a 5.08 weighted GPA and a varsity athlete with a ton of EC’s and volunteering. Who knows if she will get in because I think UF’s admissions is like a “crap shoot.” One year I had a top student get turned down to UF but was accepted and went to GT. Every February I see many kids with low “numbers” who get in over better kids. Supposedly they are also looking at campus diversity or maybe they are trying to knock down their undergraduate population by accepting kids they know won’t make it. Now I say this after talking with a former student yesterday who is a current freshman at UF. I asked him how he likes it there and he said he does. I then asked him if it was for the social or the academics. He smiled and said the social. He said that on the academic side they don’t care. He is a really smart kid who will probably always excel academically but he gave an example of how in his chemistry class kids are failing all around him and no one cares - the class just keeps on going. He said he also doesn’t really care because he has an A, but he is surprised about how the professor’s attitude is. He also told me that Chemistry 2 is supposed to be another weed-out class. Now I know that college is supposed to be tougher than high school and in high school teachers are supposed to bend over backward to work with the kids to get them through even though the accommodations hurt them when they go to college, but some colleges do strive for undergraduate success more than others. Personally, I found UF to be easy 25 years ago when I went, but I know others who didn’t. Oh, even if my daughter gets in she probably won’t go to UF, better offers elsewhere.</p>