Hope your son enjoys his internship, sounds like a great experience!
@AFG8r96 Wow, really surprised by being waitlisted with those stats. 3 years ago my older son was accepted into Virginia Tech with much lower stats, out of state. He had a Navy ROTC scholarship to go there, not sure if that affects admissions or not.
I do think that this year is different in a lot of ways for the kids and the schools.
I also firmly believe that they end up where they are supposed to be and that they will be happy at more than their first choice school.
I can relate to the overseas high school. My wife and I are both products of DoDDS high schools. Thanks for your family’s service!
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For Feb. 26, does anyone know what time UF decisions are typically released
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Officially after 6pm. But others have reported they got theirs after 5pm in previous years.
Some of those are just unsubstantiated rumors…the fabled extra tabs on the Purdue site don’t mean anything (I’ve had 2 kids without those appearing, they both got in). I can’t remember where I saw it on CC but there is a funny post describing how a college admissions department kept changing things based on what people posted on the CC forum about hidden meanings and hints just to mess with them.
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UVA’s IT department has some fun with it this year for sure.
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Thank you so much!
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I am curious what everyone here has heard about kids with really good stats being shifted to the PaCE (Pathway to Campus Enrollment) plan. This is a pre-Covid plan that admits kids to UF, but they have to do the first year or two fully remote. They can’t live on campus. My son has pretty good stats (1490 SAT, 3.98 UW GPA, 14 AP classes) and he has said he doesn’t want UF if he gets PaCE. Along with the horror stories of the kid with great stats being rejected by UF, he has heard of kids with stats around his that were put in PaCE. Does anyone have any experience with PaCE at UF?
UF goes through and chooses their freshman class - invariably there are excellent students whom we didn’t have any more room to admit. Then we look at major and see if PaCE or the Santa Fe/State College of Florida Engineering or DCP program is a possibility. If so then we will make that type of offer. I don’t know last year’s stats with COVID and all but the previous year 75% of the PaCE admits moved to Gainesville, paid the extra activity fee and participated at UF like any other student. There is a Ciceronce in PaCE who when giving tours would talk about how much she loved being able to work on classes on her own schedule.
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@fladadK4Q Did your son indicate an intended major that is in the PACE program? If not, it is my understanding that he will not be considered for it.
I don’t have any first-hand experience with PACE but do know of kids who have done it. In the first year or two the program existed, PACE students had more restrictions regarding what they could participate in on campus while in the program. That has since changed and they can now use on campus gyms and other services. Some require paying an additional fee that traditional students pay for those services but that are not required for PACE students.
My kids said the same thing when they were applying, I think that there is a stigma attached to it among them. But I told them that if they really want to be a Gator and that is the path offered, you should take it. They were not forced to make that decision, so don’t know what they would have done…
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Are there consistent SAT/GPA thresholds for PaCE, or could someone with great stats be offered PaCE and someone with less impressive stats be offered regular admission, purely because of major?
Last year I found out the average accepted GPA and SAT for Interior Design majors that got the Gator Santa Fe offer was 4.3 and 1270
Yes, my son’s Major is offered by PaCE. If he is forced in to PaCE, it is highly unlikely he will attend UF.
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Everyone who is going to be admitted to campus is admitted without major being a consideration.
Are there consistent SAT/GPA thresholds for PaCE? Is it arbitrary?
I wouldn’t say anything is arbitrary but it probably looks that way from the outside. Since the process is holistic I guarantee some student will be admitted to campus with a 3.9 and some student will be denied with a 4.6 - GPA/Test Score are just part of the consideration.
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It is an interesting world we live in right now. Whether or not my child goes to UF for free, or I have to pay 200K+ at an out-of-state university, all comes down to someone’s opinion on an essay written by a 17 year old.
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@Melissa96 That is very interesting. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that if the student that is ultimately offered PACE had indicated a major that is not in the PACE program (or other non-traditional programs), that student would have been offered admission in the traditional program.
So, the process is to create the class, then determine the path/program for the class based on intended major and other considerations? I think that most people have the perception that the traditional class is created, then it is decided who that was not admitted to the traditional program can be offered an alternate path.
@fladadK4Q I am not sure that is fair. 1. There are other in state options besides UF that the student can go to for free. 2. It is not just the essay that differentiates the applicants. There are many subjective considerations.
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Very similar position!!!