<p>News</a> - - Gainesville.com</p>
<p>Interesting that the article states that the date for decisions is Feb. 1. I thought it was Feb 15. Let's hope the article is correct!</p>
<p>that will work out to about a 40% acceptance rate. Last year I think UF accepted a little over 10,000.</p>
<p>good luck to everyone</p>
<p>Also, it says the deadline was Dec. 1st when it was Nov. 1st. If I remember too, last year they had about a 42% acceptance rate. At least it isn't extremely more selective this year.</p>
<p>almagetty: "You can expect to receive a decision February 15"</p>
<p>dvm: they're referring to the absolute deadline to be able to turn in an application. Individuals that sent their applications after November 1st are evaluated on a space available basis and therefore have a much harder time getting in</p>
<p>Then therefore at least a fraction of the applications in that statistic don't have as good of a chance? Wow. I feel lucky this year the difficulty didn't increase drastically from last year.</p>
<p>Goodness, that's a lot of applicants! And just as I was starting to feel good about UF decisions...</p>
<p>That works out to approximately 25 % (not 40 %.)</p>
<p>UF accepts about 10K or so depending on enrollment forecasts</p>
<p>Not the way I calculated it......</p>
<p>I did it as well and got 40%</p>
<p>It's probably 25% when you only count those who actually end up attending. Remember schools accept more than they have capacity for because they know a certain number won't end up coming anyway. The spaces left are given to those on waitlists.</p>
<p>that's correct dvm.</p>
<p>25% of the estimated total applicant pool attend. 40% or so get accepted.</p>
<p>anyway you slice it, uf is a very competitive school to get into. </p>
<p>this trend however is not unique to UF. with the huge bubble in population of those applying to college over the past 5 years or so, most schools are seeing their application numbers rise and their acceptance rates fall. </p>
<p>my younger s is a high school sophmore and can only imaging how much harder it will be when his time arrives.... soon</p>
<p>i just hope all of you who who really have your heart set on going to UF, get in.... best of luck</p>
<p>The Yield Rate was 57% last year. This incoming class should easily be over 60%.</p>
<p>6,600 is way too many students in my opinion. Incoming Freshmen classes should be reduced a couple hundred each year.</p>
<p>That or increase out-of-state students so that UF can make more in tuition charges.</p>
<p>Also, the deadline was November 1, not December 1.</p>
<p>If they start admitting more OOS students, you can expect a riot. LOL.</p>
<p>For Parents and children to riot that would be stupid. They are getting a 200k education for only 12k total in total tuition charges.</p>
<p>Maybe if the Legislature supported UF & FSU properly then we wouldn't need out-of-state students.</p>
<p>6,609 - what a weird number - greater than 6,600, but less than 6,650 :-)</p>
<p>Too bad it's not at 6,000.</p>
<p>I agree with you ssobick about that number being too high. I think UF should do everything it can to reduce class size, this being the least costly.</p>
<p>if UF lowered their freshman class size to 5,000 and took 20% oos (1,000 students), not only would they have much smaller class sizes, but they would take in considerably more revenue each year then they currently do with 6600 in the freshman class.</p>
<p>this seems like the best way to accomplish both goals you all speak about (lower class size and more revenue).</p>
<p>i know many people have an aversion to increasing the oos population, but almost all other public state universities that are ranked higher than UF have a much higher oos population.</p>
<p>i don't think it is neccesarily more students applying to uf with a genuine intention in going there, then simply more students casting their safety net wider. I remember there was an article about rutgers( nj state school), which stated the school saw an almost 40% app increase.</p>