Does anyone know anything about UF’s “admitted on a space available basis” policy for people who applied after nov 15?
I’m out of state and showed a lot of interest on my app
How does one calculate the “UF GPA” mentioned above?
@NCrent In HS, As are worth 4, Bs are worth 3, etc. So whatever grade you received in an AP class you add another point to it and whatever grade you received in an Honors class you add a .5 to it. All other classes don’t count and there are
no pluses and minuses. Add them up and divide by the number of classes. There’s your UF GPA.
Thanks Billy! What about non-AP and non-Honors classes like Microsoft, PE, theatre, etc? I guess I’m just confused by the “All other classes don’t count” part?
@NCrent Those that you mentioned do not count when calculating your UF Gpa. Only the classes you took that were Honors and AP do. Others apply, too, below.
Courses marked as Pre-AP, Pre-IB, Pre-AICE, and Honors are given an additional .5 quality point.
Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced International Certification of Education (AICE), and Dual Enrollment (DE) courses are given 1 additional quality point.
@Juckerz Congrats on being accepted into both UF and UCF! If your primary concern is financial, consider the State College route. Both Santa Fe College (where I work) and Valencia College offer the same courses of study as the universities - for about half the price. Associate of Arts graduates are able to matriculate into the university as juniors. Learn more about about the SF-UF connection at http://www.sfcollege.edu/gators/
ALL ACADEMIC CLASSES COUNT! Not just honors and APs. For instance, if you took standard ENGLISH then it counts on the standard scale (no adding extra points like with honors or APs).
Furthermore, grades are converted to 4.0 scale with + or - grades not considered. Honors classes are weighted with additional .5 and AP/IB/AICE/DE are weighted with an additional 1.0.
****Again, they only consider academic classes in the calculation. So typically if someone takes 4 years of band and gets all As it brings down their weighted GPA because it was not an honors or AP class. But not at UF, non academic classes don’t pull down your GPA so that is why the GPA may seem a little higher.
One final note on GPA. The state of Florida has set in-state guidelines for what qualifies as an “honor” or advance (AP/DE/IB/AICE) class. It makes it far easier for an in-state resident to figure out UF’s GPA (like at a copy of the HS transcripts and see if a class is flagged honors or AP/DE, etc.), than an out of state student. What’s an honor’s class? Would “gifted” classes be counted as honor?
With that being said, UF does take that GPA “difference” in consideration when reviewing OOS students.
Also, don’t forget class rigor. That plays an important role in admissions, but it doesn’t show up in the “stats”.
@Gator88NE thanks for all the great advice. Truly appreciate your contributions. And I can hardly wait to see what the final admissions stats look like.
My daughter is excited for Gator Engineering at Santa Fe but I’m already getting nervous for my sophomore son in two years…
Just to close one little loop. Doesn’t appear that the Thursday e-mail or no e-mail had any correlation on acceptance. Although it was a total rumor, it did give us something to talk about on Friday.
See you in two years for child #2…
Does anyone know what the average UF GPA would be?
@GatorDad305 We went through admissions twice (DD2014 and DS2017) and it does NOT get easier the 2nd time through 
@CrazyDad9 For what it’s worth, your son appears to be deserving of admittance to UF, particularly on the objective side. It must be tougher to be rejected when you are well within the perceived “academic lane.” No one is guaranteed, but it is definitely less of a blow for kids who knew UF was a reach. I wish him the best of luck at FSU or wherever he chooses. I know many young men from our area who attend and love it.
@Gator88NE My daughter couldn’t even find Gainesville on a map a year ago but my son has been fully indoctrinated. Thankfully, he’s an excellent student and even better citizen who knows he has to work very hard for UF if that turns out to be his choice. Go Gators.
Only 5 people got into either summer or fall at my school (including me)… 25+ were rejected and 10 or so got PACE
Daughter accepted. This is going to be a long post but here goes because I have been coming here for a decade to get insight about UF. First - 10 years ago, UF Alumni Association had seminars for alumni hosted by Head of Admissions on how to get your kid into UF. I went to three years in a row before they stopped. D was in 3rd grade. The biggest point he stressed was rigor-rigor-rigor. Take the hardest class you can get into. If they offer IB or other advanced Programs, they expect child to take that program. My child did Engineering Program and IB Capstone. All her electives were AP, engineering or Journalism. She took high school honors classes in 8th grade. She got B’s and was scared that those grades would hurt but they apparently did not. They also stressed Math-math-math. They want to see you maxed out all you math classes and implied that doing well in AP Calc was indicator of future success. I had my daughter take Geometry in Summer so should could take AP calc Junior year to show that she could excel in that class. Also, Legacy matters! That is what they said - so take that with a grain of salt. Daughter was terrified bc other students had higher GPA. She had a recalculated UF GPA of (4.39) and alot of friends had 4.6. However, those students had taken only honors classes. Also- this was a point they made over 10 years ago, so not sure if relavent now. They were not too keen on DE classes (dual enrollment) If a AP class was available, it was a better gauge of rigor of class then local college .(Note: taking DE at UF was another thing). So buyer beware about DE. Use it to supplement your course load not take place of AP class available at school. Finally, Essay-Essay-Essay. My daughter is closed off when it comes to her emotions. I hired a professional tutor to help with essay. She wrote an amazing essay that gave an essence of who she was to the reader and I believe really made a difference.
In Summary: (I know this post is long but I wanted to give input for other parents out there who like me started trolling this site years ahead of college:)
Daughter accepted Fall 2018
UF GPA: 4.39/ School GPA 4.3/ UWGPA. 3.9
Rank 61/515 - SAT superscore 1360. (Took it 5 times- best score always the last one you take)
Engineering Program/IB CAPSTONE PROGRAM
9 AP classes - did not take AP Chem/physics or biology however got a B in AP Calc.
EC: Varsity Cheer; Varsity Track; Varsity Cross Country( cited accomplishments in Track); Powder Puff Coach; flag footbal; part time job; Best Buddies (Note: did not do too much volunteer. Concerned about that but just did bare minimum. 100 hours.
Legacy: mom and 2 uncles/ Latina
Essay: She was a World Class Allstar Cheerleader/ Huge social media following and featured in Cheer Documentary/ quit to join track b/c she wanted to do what she loved vs. what was popular.
Son a sophomore at FSU- fyi. I went to UF and then FSU law. Dad a nole. fsu imho was more fun!
@Bagellover --I can confirm what you say about rigor. Hired a UF Admissions professional about 10 years ago as an expert witness in a legal case. Long story, but in the course of the expert testimony the admissions professional said the #1 factor in UF admission is rigor. IB…AP…all Honors/AP no taking the easy classes to keep GPA up. DE not an indicator of ability to succeed at UF because most taken at small branches of State U or community college. I can also confirm what you say about FSU…FSU undergrad, UF law school. FSU was more fun.
So for the DE looking bad, my daughter (who was admitted for Fall) and several other kids we know that got in all took an even number of AP and DE classes so it can’t be the kiss of death it’s presented as by a few posters. We’re in state and in an incredibly competitive school district (#1 for the past 4-5 years). What she tried to follow is what they told her - rigorous schedule, leadership positions, a few ECs that you are really involved in (not belonging to every club to add it to you’re resume), had a job and a lot of volunteers hours. Not sure if that helped her overcome her lack of demonstrated ability by taking DE’s
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Several years ago, UF did a study where they compared freshman GPA’s for students who tool AP classes, IB/AICE classes and those who didn’t take AP/IB/AICE classes. Those taking AP/IB/AICE classes/programs had significantly higher college GPA’s, than those that didn’t.
Here’s a link to a much more recent study (2017)…
http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2494&context=doctoral
Keep in mind that in the state of Florida, the state gives money to each school district to support IB/AICE programs and AP classes. Even a rural HS will be able to offer several AP classes. So, it’s not an unreasonable admissions preference that student take these rigorous classes.