<p>He is referring to the National University rankings. </p>
<p>You can check on-line, if you are so inclined....</p>
<p>Hey lsandin!</p>
<p>For all intents & purposes, the actually rankings don't mean a heckuva lot really. For larger 'national'-style universities, anything in the top 100 is going to be pretty good. Then you're down to the variables of size, distance, cost, majors, and all that other fun stuff that obfuscates the decision-making process!</p>
<p>Probably should go to a S'western thread for info there, but its small size would almost guarantee it would be lumped in with the other small LAC's.</p>
<p>Okay, I think I get it, LOL! Thanks for the link rogracer.. Southwestern is #62 under Liberal Arts Colleges... not bad. Checked D's other choices as well..interesting where they fall.. she chose some pretty good ones (no wonder they cost so much!).</p>
<p>One more question though. I see that they have Top Schools then Tier 3 and Tier 4.. what happened to Tier 2? is there a Tier 2 or are Tier 2 schools like the ones numbered 50-100 under the top schools category? Feeling kinda dumb right now! Guess I wouldn't get into any of them if I were applying.</p>
<p>blonditr, UF gives 1/2 pt to Pre-IB/Honors, and 1 pt to AP/IB. According to their dean of admissions, if you have a UF weighted of above a 3.5 and have an SAT above 1350, there is a 95% chance that youll get in. My brother got accepted with a 3.03 UW (3.64 W on UF's scale), a strong DOWNWARD trajectory, a 1460, 1 extracurric (spanish club), and a class rank of like 192/404. Id say you will almost definitely get in.</p>
<p>USNews did away with "2nd tier" rankings a few years ago. But, historically, "top tier" are schools from 1-50 (UF makes the cut..barely). Schools 50-100+ were 2nd tier.</p>
<p>Here is the lowdown on UF's admission statistics for the new freshman class:</p>
<p>Middle 50% GPA: 3.8-4.3 (weighted, academic classes only)
Middle 50% SAT: 1200-1380
Percent of students in top 10% of HS class: 79%
No. of AP classes 50% of students have taken: >5
Number of National Merit Finalists/Scholars enrolled: 259 (ranked 2nd nationally)
EC's and Essays count as well.</p>
<p>Not for a lot of people on these boards, but UF in general, is pretty hard to get into. I know people with 3.8w and 1400's who get flat out rejected.</p>
<p>not if they are florida residents</p>
<p>especially florida residents who went through the IB program. The trendy thing to do in FLA highschools is go to the IB program, we probably graduate more IB diploma receivers than any other state. UF drools over IB.</p>
<p>And at UF you're potentially looking at what I call the 'UNC syndrome', which I suppose also applies to UVA, Maryland, UIUC and other highly-rated state universities. In this scenario, admissions takes an almost disproportionate percentage of in-state students, as high as 90% of a given freshman class. For the other 10% out-of-state applicants, requirements are jacked up so high that it's nearly Ivy-like, not to mention the OOS tuitions at these places, which are sometimes 500%-600% higher than in-state.</p>
<p>These states can admit whomever they want of course, but the by-product is a much more homogenized student body.</p>
<p>WOOO-just got into UF</p>
<p>do you love it?</p>
<p>Do I love uf?</p>
<p>ahahahaha..i love it...and frankly-thats hot</p>
<p>jessica did u get in UF?</p>
<p>i got in</p>
<p>surprisingly</p>