<p>UFWizard,</p>
<p>Bank error in your favor, bro. Don’t sweat it. Congratulations!</p>
<p>I think there are only 2 or 3 people in this entire thread who are butthurt about him getting in. The majority are giving words of encouragement and congrats. Let’s not focus on the haters.
He’ll be fine at UF. I just think he needs to stop doubting and be proud to be a Gator. </p>
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<p>ufwizard: Young man, you have been given a gift. Call it luck, call it karma. Whatever, it’s yours. Take charge of it. I wish you joy and success at UF.
And let me tell you one more thing: you are not the student with the worst credentials to be accepted at UF. Just look at the UF freshman profile from last year( I am sure that the new one, when it is posted, will be similar)
[University</a> of Florida - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/ugrad/frprofile.html]University”>Freshman - How To Apply - University of Florida)
Students were accepted with GPA below 1600, academic credits below 21 and GPA below 3.3. The likelihood? Not likely. But it happens.
And The UF adcoms chose you - maybe they saw honesty, self-awareness, and courage to bloom into a good student? I see that in you - otherwise why put yourself through what you are doing here? Whatever be, it is what it is.
So now leave all this. Go work hard your senior year and enjoy it too. And come Summer B go tackle UF.
I hope 4 years from now you come back to these forums and tell prospective students to UF, “I was given a chance and I made the most of it. Now you grab your chance and do your best!”
God bless and make your parents and UF proud!</p>
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<p>As for stats and numbers. Anything could be possible. I mean, someone with 30 academic classes , 2300 SAT and 3.2 GPA could’ve made up the 56 people who got in. Someone else with 30 academic classes with 4.5 gpa and 1500 SAT could make up the 500 who got in. Although I got a 3.5 GPA, thats not alot to carry my SAT and courseload.</p>
<p>Edit: This would mean that I would be at most one of the 500 students accepted to UF (assuming it was the same this year too). So yea, it’s possible</p>
<p>You must have had an EXTREMELY amazing essay!! But, don’t listen to your friends! Your stats are pretty much below average, but UF must have really liked you through your essay. Congrats though!</p>
<p>accepted as well(:</p>
<p>“Students were accepted with GPA below 1600, academic credits below 21 and GPA below 3.3.”</p>
<p>Most of them are linebackers.</p>
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<p>Is this a joke? Injustice? You make it sound like it’s a right to get into college with certain stats and that you’re being stripped of your civil liberties if you have the stats but don’t get in. </p>
<p>The fact is that the university is building a diverse class. Yes, everybody says this, but you have to understand that part of diversity is intelligence level. They’re going to pick some duds and throw 'em wild with the rest. It’s not fair, nor is it their goal, to build a class of academic robots – i.e. x.xGPAs, xyz test scores, and abc extracurriculars. Sometimes all they want is personality and character, which they may have picked up on from the essays in the application.</p>
<p>Anyone think I’ll be able to pull off the same magic in a petition for UF honors? Just a thought lol.</p>
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<p>I am glad that Harvard thinks this way, as well. You know, “holistic admissions” means that stupid imbeciles need also to be represented in order to form a diverse class. Clearly, unless Harvard students know how to deal with idiots (generally, most Americans), they won’t go far in the world. I will ensure to apply with a 19 ACT and a 2.5 GPA and with an essay about how (in Forrest Gump’s words) “stupid is as stupid does.” Such a relief that Florida shows us that URMs can also be fools and are deserving of an equivalent consideration.</p>
<p>My post was more of a generalization and less about this specific instance, so you bringing in the fact that the OP of this thread is a URM has absolutely no relevance, first of all. Second of all, holistic admissions actually does imply that – it’s only half about academics, the other half about who you are and what you do. Therefore, a low-performing student with a vibrant personality and eccentric qualities and activities is theoretically just as attractive of a candidate as a student with a 1600 SAT, 36 ACT, 4.0uw GPA who has no ECs, does nothing but make good grades, and is a typical book nerd. </p>
<p>I’m not even going to address your mention of Harvard as there’s absolutely no parallel whatsoever.</p>
<p>Lastly, for the record, I never said that the lower end of the average students (i.e. the “duds”) were imbeciles or idiots, so you clearly misinterpreted that.</p>
<p>ufwizard- “Anyone think I’ll be able to pull off the same magic in a petition for UF honors? Just a thought lol.”</p>
<p>Oh, Lord. If you do floridadad55 might just stroke out. ;)</p>
<p>I really intend on applying for honors. I could have a shot since a large part of it is essays and the petition essay is only a haiku and the one of the application essays is about a chicken who crossed the road. That’s my specialty right there!! They don’t even consider gpa and test scores.</p>
<p>Quick question: Anyone know how many applicants get admitted for UF honors?</p>
<p>My stats were much higher (5.2 GPA, 35 ACT and EC’s).</p>
<p>I did NOT get in.</p>
<p>Guess I will have to go to Michigan! How bizarre is THAT!</p>
<p>Congrats!</p>
<p>Same as chargers basically…Honestly, applying to the honors college when you don’t actually deserve regular admission is just going to alert them to their mistake.</p>
<p>Floridadad… I think it is wrong to criticized based solely on numbers, especially if the OP had an honest and wonderful essay, which is very possible. 3.5-3.6 GPA is very good especially if the courses were pretty hard, and I would think that if the OP is a genuine, honest, passionate person then he/she deserves to go to the school just as much as anyone else who was admitted. I have a feeling that your S/D was rejected from UF which would explain your qualms. But to criticize a university and and applicant is extremely base and rude. Who are you to say the OP didn’t deserve it? </p>
<p>To the OP: you will always have doubts and people that doubt you, but push past it and you will come out much clearer and much happier. Congrats and good luck.</p>
<p>It’s funny how you keep mentioning “he didn’t DESERVE” “he’s not WORTHY” and others were more “qualified/ superior”. Who are YOU to say if he is worthy or not. You are not on the UF admissions committee therefore your opinion of who “deserves” admission is wrong as well as irrelevant. As for these so called “superior” students…who says they are better than the original poster? Who says that “four years of hard work” “EARN” you preference? Stats, numbers and grades aren’t EVERYTHING. </p>
<p>It’s just like getting into med school (and as a pre-med major I know what I am talking about), you could have a 4.0 GPA, 30 MCAT and still be rejected. Just like you could have a 3.2 28 MCAT and be picked over the 4.0 GPA candidate.
In other words, just because your grades are better, does not mean YOU are better or “more worthy”. UF has their reasons for picking this kid, and with the competetive admissions process, I am sure it was no accident or for a lack of “better” applicants.</p>
<p>Who you are as a person, your intended major, your essay and your interview (when applicable) are HUGE determining factors when being accepted into almost everything i.e college, med school, jobs ect. It’s not all bout who gets more A’s. Maybe UF saw something in the OP’s essay, that not even he may have realized was special.</p>
<p>Oh and having good grades does NOT neccesarily mean you are smart or exceptional. It just means you study a lot. I have met 4.0 students who are extremely naive, ditzy, air headed and with a child-like mentality. </p>
<p>No one should be mad at UF’s decision because guess what? The admissions committee knows BETTER than you and no amount of hating is going to change the way UF chooses students :)</p>
<p>Some of you guys don’t realize that ufwizard is a ■■■■■. I guarantee you he DID NOT get in with those stats. </p>
<p>Common Sense:
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<p>This guy is just trying to make the higher qualified people angry. UF would never do such a thing to accept someone with near-■■■■■■ stats, last-minute essay, no ECs, no hooks. </p>
<p>If he actually did get accepted, then YES it was a computer error or the admissions officer was tired as hell and made a big mistake.</p>
<p>But who cares, let him go to UF and drop out after he fails all the weed-out classes. People can’t just magically become hard-working and intelligent over a year, you’re gonna be pounded with work, tests that you have to cram for in a day, a 20 page essay due in a few hours etc.</p>