<p>I am a senior in a California High School (OOS'er : /) . I am going to apply for their college of Journalism and Communication (weimer hall.) I want to pursue a career as a news anchor or news producer. I have a 3.6 unweighted cumulative gpa, and if i did it correctly, i have about a 3.86 weighted (UF style). I recieved an 1850 on my SAT (590 math, 620 English, 640 writing, 8 essay) and on the subject tests i got a 590 on math and 600 on the lit. I took the sat again on november 1st and will find out if i improved or not by the 20th. i am in the top 12 1/2% of my highschool. ranked approx. 78 out of 676</p>
<p>I am planning on taking chinese at my local community college starting in January. I am in honors and AP classes, and i played volleyball for the first 3 years ( last year starting varsity).
I also coached a middle school volleyball team(40+ hours) . I am a member of several clubs (national honor society, calif. scholarship federation, snowboard club-secretary, and link crew to name a few). In total i have about 300 community service hours. My essay was also very good. I used to live in FL, and i visited the campus this past summer.</p>
<p>You have four strikes against you.
1. You are OOS. UF enrolls about 320 +/- (5%) OOS students.
2. Your SAT @ 1210 is below the enrolled average.
3. Your GPA is also below the enrolled average.
4. Your class rank at 12% is not top 10% that UF pushes.</p>
<p>IMHO the essay is probably worth only 20%, if even that.</p>
<p>thanks to both of you, as much as i would rather hear the 50/50 chance, i know that being an OOS applicant really hurts my chances. At least there is hope!</p>
<p>If you want to go to school in Florida and want to go to one of the best schools for Communication, mainly Broadcasting, then you should definitely
check out the University of Miami. If you get your SATs up to 1300 level, you will even get a merit scholarship.</p>
<p>uga(deferred)
uf (top choice)
um
northeastern
umdcp (another top pick)
sandiego state( accepted)
arizona state(accepted with $$)</p>
<p>my parents want me to stay in california, but we'll see. They are paying whatever it would cost for instate tuition, and i have to make up the difference</p>
<p>I'd say you're going to be deferred at Miami but later accepted (like in April). Your SAT is a little on the low side and same goes with your GPA. I think the averages for 2008 Fall was 4.2 GPA and 1310-1460 SAT. I mean they take others with lower credentials, but they usually have pretty good extracurriculars that make up for their mediocre academics. I had two friends last year, both deferred, one accepted for Fall and then one accepted for Spring. </p>
<p>Fall Stats:
State: Long Island, NY
GPA: 3.7 UW/ 4.2 W (5 or 6 APs)
SATS: 1220
Extracurriculars: Good</p>
<p>Spring Stats:
State: Rockland County, NY
GPA: 3.5 UW, 3.9 W (3 or 4 APs)
SATS: 1180
Extracurriculars: Decent</p>
<p>UGA(deferred)
UF (top choice)
FSU
UM
Penn (super reach)
GT (deferred)
South Carolina
Auburn (accepted with $$)
Drexel (accepted with $$)
Winthrop (accepted, waiting to hear from Honors Program)
Bama (accepted)
Georgia State (accepted)</p>
<p>and Bruins, when I went to the UM Admissions Session, they don't reweight grades, they grade you on the scale you use, which skews the GPA stats. They said at the session that they had someones GPA on a 12 pt scale :???:</p>
<p>maybe, probably not. florida is a good school with increased apps the adcom is very busy plus your out of state. you shouldve applied to california colleges, they are the ****</p>