<p>For those that are interested the UF Office of Admissions has released the following information about admissions for 2011 for the Class of 2015 as published in the Independent Florida Alligator newspaper:</p>
<p>Total number of applicants: 29,269
Total number admitted: 11,423
Percent admitted: 38% (an all-time record low)</p>
<p>Mean GPA of admittted students: 4.30
Mean SAT score of admitted students: 1963
Mean ACT Composite score of admitted students: 30</p>
<p>Wow, that makes me feel even better for getting in during the year where there was an all-time low for the percentage of people who go in.</p>
<p>Just took ACT and SAT for first time–will take again. Which of these 2 scores is stronger–or about the same? 31 ACT, 1330/2020 SAT. Thanks.</p>
<p>The ACT is slightly better (about a 1380) but both are good scores</p>
<p>I feel honored to have been accepted! Nice stats class of '15!!!</p>
<p>Wow, nice stats. I was a 4.6 ish GPA, 31 ACT, 2050 SAT. I always thought I was high above the averages, but I am not. This should be an excellent class.</p>
<p>It feels good to be accepted! With that low acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I know about 50 people (African-Americans) who got in with a 17 ACT score. If you are in the top 5% of your graduating class and you attend a Florida public high school, you are guaranteed admissions.</p>
<p>@Danielle2400 Can you give the link? 
I would like to check it out (unless that was all of the information given). Anyone know where we can see the statistics of where the incoming students are from etc. or is that like illegal information?</p>
<p>In response to MilliVanilli Post:</p>
<p>I provided all of thge reported information given to the UF school newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator by the UF Admission Office. If you go to the Independent Florida Alligator Newspaper website and search for UF Admission statistics 2011 you will find the article. As to the post above yours that information is not accurate. There are minimum SAT and ACT scores to even be considered for admission and a 17 Composite ACT is well below the minimum. Also a top 5% class standing is no guarantee as a number of top 5% students were rejected primarily with below average ACT or SAT scores. If this trend continues as it has for the last three years, admission applications for next year may approach 33,000 which would if the class size stays constant reduce the admission rate
to 35-36%.</p>
<p>No search results found! :(</p>
<p>[UF</a> adds newest members of Gator Nation - The Independent Florida Alligator: Features](<a href=“http://www.alligator.org/news/features/article_b56f2bea-37ec-11e0-9fe4-001cc4c03286.html]UF”>UF adds newest members of Gator Nation - The Independent Florida Alligator)</p>
<p>“In addition to the Alliance program, the University of Florida will begin a new partnership with all high schools in Florida to assist Gov. Jeb Bush’s efforts to strengthen public education in the state of Florida. The new program, effective this year, guarantees admission to the top 5 percent of the graduating seniors in all public high schools in the state. These students will be expected to complete the application process and must have completed the necessary core courses satisfactorily. In most cases, these graduating seniors will have done so and will therefore, be guaranteed admissions to the University of Florida.”</p>
<p>[University</a> of Florida News – UF Expands Efforts To Help At-Risk High School Students](<a href=“http://news.ufl.edu/2002/02/13/allianceexpands/]University”>http://news.ufl.edu/2002/02/13/allianceexpands/)</p>
<p>This information is directly from the University of Florida website.</p>
<p>yes, but from 2002, jeb Bush isn’t even the gov. anymore. I know there is a state program where people in the top 5 or 10% are guaranteed admission to atleast 1 university in the state, even if it may not be one of their top choices. maybe this is the end result of what they were trying to start then.</p>
<p>also, if you kept reading the article, you would see that that specific program only applied to 4 high schools.</p>
<p>No, it does not only apply to those 4 schools. It clearly stated in addition to the Alliance Program… The Alliance Scholarship only applies to those 4 schools.</p>
<p>The new program, effective this year, guarantees admission to the top 5 percent of the graduating seniors in all public high schools in the state.</p>
<p>I’m in the Alliance Program and you have no idea what your talking about. </p>
<p>It’s not guaranteed admissions… that changed. It’s just free Scholarship Money guaranteed if you get in. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>actually, after googling it because of curiosity, it looks like they did accept the top 5% from 2003 to 2005. a lot of old collegeconfidential threads from 2006 have people saying they called admissions about it, and were told it had to be discontinued because of the sheer number of applicants.
but besides that, come on man, if you are going to attend UF, you need to start using your critical thinking skills. Do you really think that only 11,423 who were in the top 5% of their class applied to UF? There are hundreds of high schools in the state, if they were really accepting the top 5% automatically, the number of people who applied to uf, and were accepted, would be outrageously high. everyone and their mother would be applying to UF as their safety school, and everyone would know about this 5% rule. you can even see from last years freshman profile that the GPA range was from below 3.3 to above 4.0. with a rule like that, it would skew way higher, and no one with gpa’s above 4.0 would have been rejected.</p>
<p>and even if you think you know about some minorities who got in with low test scores, that is the point of using holistic admissions. Maybe those people are just bad test takers, and their essays, extracurriculars, honors and awards, and work experience knocked the socks off the admissions committee. besides, UF could really use some more diversity,there are seriously sooo many jews from miami, and asians that attend it’s almost ridiculous.</p>
<p>@Glasswright I agree with you 100%. But, UF came to my school and told the top 50 to apply and they all got in.</p>
<p>@ufgator18 I wasn’t referring to the alliance program. Therefore, I do know what I am taking about.</p>
<p>dude, are you saying no one in the top 50 of your school got above 17 on the ACT? I don’t want to question you, but are you sure about that? I know in my school, people didn’t really go around telling everyone their scores on every test. Not even the guidance counslers at my school knew my scores until I told them near the end of the year. and maybe there is something about your specific school or area, like if it is in an underpriviledged area, or not many people besides those 50 applied. I have heard that UF tries to accept people ina such a way that they get people from all over every part of florida, so this could lead to weird occurances like that. That just seems crazy to me, because I know almost the entire top 5% at my school applied, and not many got in. And these were mostly minorities, so it wouldn’t really make sense if they were really getting any sort of advantage for that, or if they were gauranteed just for being in the top 5%.</p>
<p>The program referenced by the above poster is the Talented Twenty Program. It does not automatically guarantee admission to UF but does guarantee it to one of Florida’s 4 year state universities. The Alliance program which targeted 6 under-performing high schools, 2 in Miami, 2 in Orlando and 2 in Jacksonville is no longer being utilized. This is for a number of reasons including economic, college ranking, competitive demand for the 6,400 freshman slots and a revised minority recruitment program inluding the Platinum Presidential Scholarship Program. I noted in my initial post, if current applications rise at the established pace existing over the last three admission cycles, the 2012 application level will approach 33,000. If current class size stays constant at 6,400 with about 11,400 acceptances the acceptance rate will be between 35-36%.</p>