The 2019 admissions annual report is now online. Lots of good data, broken down by state and county, etc. More info than in prior years. Mobile friendly presentation, not a pdf.
https://admissions.ufl.edu/annual-reports/2019/freshman#index
Happy wonking!
@GatorDad305 I do love this stuff…
Interesting data on admissions by Residency.
The acceptance rate for Florida residents is 45.9%, Non-Florida it’s 41.1% (still similar) but the “Undetermined” is only 15%. Out of the 38,692 applicants, 9,344 are “undetermined”? That seems rather high. Issues with the application and determining state of residency?
UF had also reported 42,000 applicants, back last February/March, so we’re missing about 3,500 to 4,000? The number of admits matches what was reported.
The next section (by state) has 28,204 applicants from Florida, while the “by Residency” only had 17,273. We can assume some applicants from Florida are not legal residents, still those numbers are in conflict.
PaCE enrollment is up to 718, which isn’t bad growth. A nice spread of majors. UF enrolled 6,500 freshman, so PaCE was a way for an extra 10+% more freshman to get acceptance to UF. If you include Innovation Academy (255 admits), then it’s about 15% more freshman finding an alternate way to UF.
Interesting that they included yield % with this year’s stats. There was in increase in the number of OOS scholarships offered in 2019-2020:
Scholarship(amount): 2019: 2018: 2017
Alumni ($8K/Year) : 91 : 33 : 90
Sunshine ($16K/year): 127 : 19 : 27
Gator Nation ($20K/Year): 139 : 14 : 13
**That’s a significant increase in Sunshine and Gator Nation Scholarships[/b}. 
Lol. Was going to IM you. Losing my mind with the silence the past few weeks! Haha
What is Undetermined? LOL! You are either a Resident or a Non-Resident
The middle 50 percent was 29-33. It will be interesting to see how these numbers change with the new super score. More applicants might be able to get into this range, but perhaps, it will be even more competitive. Another interesting fact is the Female to Male ratio.
Hi Alll! Do they ever publish a freshman profile for the honors college?
@GatorDad305 how did you calculate 45% acceptance rate ?
@GatorDad305 i figured it out
@Gator88NE and @GatorDad305 is that 45% acceptance for FLorida residence for fall stats only? or taking into account PACE IA SUMMER etc.
@Gator88NE the number of kids in the State college/ Santa Fe partner programs also went up to now about 225 kids. I predicted last year that it might exceed IA soon, and now even sooner. Partnership kid stats are in the transfer section. (In my daughters year, there were only about 75 total.).
Scholarship figure are interesting but mainly there’s just more data to absorb and crunch.
As others have said, I don’t understand how they cannot determine the residency of almost a quarter of the applicants. To me, if you cannot prove that you are a Florida resident, then you are not… It looks like that group is much less likely to gain admittance, and if they are admitted, are much less likely to attend.
Maybe it is a timing thing. When those 171 students enroll, there is a binary choice of tuition cost that has to be determined. Also, since the SUS has an overall limit of OOS students, I would think that the school has to classify them at some point for the purpose of that calculation at least.
Looking forward, it will be interesting to see how the profile changes with the inclusion of both applications this year. Any predictions?
Not sure what to make of the residency ‘undetermined’ point. Perhaps these are applications where the residency info is incomplete? Maybe they didn’t fill out the form right? “I will say I am from Florida and if the select me, I will prove it later?” sort of thing? “We will use your grandmother’s address for it?”
@fl1234 I think the common app will have a dramatic effect but primarily on out of state figures. I don’t see how it would change the number of applicants from Florida. Kids from Florida were applying to UF in huge numbers and I can’t imagine any were hindered in previous years because UF didn’t accept the common app. This year might be easier for in-state kids, but I don’t think it makes a big impact.
For example, according to the admissions info, Coral Reef High School in Miami, right down the road from me, had 335 applicants last year from a graduating class of around 800. More than 40 percent of the kids applied. They clearly don’t need an incentive to get more kids to apply. If you wanted UF, you did coalition or you were out of luck.
Out of state kids who may have had no other schools on the coalition app may have been dissuaded from UF because filling out another platform (coaltion) was a pain.
Yes, the common app makes it easier for thousands to apply to UF this year, but I think most of those kids are out of state.
@GatorDad305 so really the % acceptance will really affect the % of OOS accepted not so much the instate… I’m guessing they want the same instate yield and or quantity of kids to be accepted and then accept the acceptance…
@GatorDad305 I’ll take the contrarian point of view on this and say that it will have only a modest impact on the overall number of applicants. I agree with you that the effect on in state applications will be negligible. But, I believe that it will also be a small impact on out of state applications.
My thought, and experience with a small sample set of 2 kids, is that students were already making the effort to use the other application if they were interested in applying to a school that required it. Especially if they are high achieving students that would be most likely to apply to UF. Neither of my kids decided to not apply to a school because it required them to fill out another application. They applied to the schools that they were interested in, regardless. Also, even if you already have the Common/Core application filled out, there are school specific questions and essays that have to be completed. So, it is not like you just have to click another box and then it is off to UF. I feel that there is still a sufficient effort barrier that will discourage those students that are not all that interested in applying to UF, but would do so if it required virtually no effort and no $.
@jhmoney thats what I’m theorizing…
@fl1234 while I’m all for contrarianism, and think your point is well made, I also know that UF extended decision day by two weeks because of the common app.
Also, in my experience, people and teenagers in particular are lazy. So a barrier like “you mean I have to fill all this stuff out AGAIN, said in a whiny petulant voice,” will absolutely prevent a kid or their equally petulant parent from filling out another platform.
I predict more applicants (mainly out of state), lower accept rate, and higher number of acceptances (against a lower yield).
@fl1234 and @GatorDad305 i will say this about the apps… i think there is for sure a barrier to do apps… we wanted my daughter to apply to Tulane and Michigan as a stretch school. in addition one other school… her response was " i don’t want to write anymore essays, am i really going to go to that school?". we were like , she is right, why make her do it… plus she didn’t want to write any additional essays lol. this is a top ranked student at her school. since my daughter did the app on her own, i am not sure what is required besides checking a UF box? do they need to write additional essays besides the 600 word essay? i thought UF and FSU made it easy… just the application essay? please tell me what i do not know?
@GatorDad305 The delayed decision day may be just to provide insurance against a new system/tools/process for them, not necessarily for volume. We’ll see…
@jhmoney There is a UF Supplement section. I have not seen it, my kids did it on their own. The UF website says: As part of the UF supplement, we will ask additional short-answer questions to learn more about you as we review your application for admission.
@fl1234 A couple weeks ago after my son’s tour, we spoke with a guy in admissions and he said they are expecting a larger number of applications this year due to them now accepting the common app.
@GatorDad305 - What do you mean by “UF extended decision day by two weeks because of the common app.” I thought their website still indicated decision would come out the 2nd Friday in February- which is what is was 2 years ago when my D1 applied. Is this not still the case? Did I miss something?
@Mom2NND Decision day was pushed to the end of February. I posted on this a while back: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/university-florida/2146170-uf-to-accept-common-app-decision-day-pushed-to-february-28-2020.html#latest
Plus I confirmed it with admissions when I took my son on his tour two weeks ago.
Friday, February 28th at the end of the day. And they go right into Spring Break so no one from Admissions will be available to call until March 9th.