I don’t agree. My daughter was accepted for fall and so did one of her classmates. All the others were flat out rejected. Private school in Miami with good UF admission rate.
Admission only starts with “stats” and is ultimately so, so, so much more about institutional goals of the school. These are things completely out of one’s control … think of all the boxes checked or not checked in an application. They are slicing and dicing based on THOSE factors to an even greater degree this cycle. Even though cliche sounding, everything does happen for a reason and your D will end up in a great place and continue to shine !
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Someone wrote something I found interesting on the Maryland board. Colleges seek diversity. That does not mean each kid has a background with 20 interests that makes them Superman. It means having engineers and theater performers and poetry readers. It means athletes and coders and people who enjoy museums. They are building a diverse class, not a class of diverse people.
I paraphrased greatly. However I thought it was a great point.
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Our school has so many innovation and Pace acceptances. It seems like everyone that
Wanted Innovation got it. I don’t know of of anyone that got rejected from Innovation.
I concur. I read once - here on CC, if I’m not mistaken- that “you may be the tuba player in a flute world” in respect to deferrals/rejections. Something along those lines. Colleges are looking to fill their quotas and not in the slightest a rejection reflects the applicant’s academic/intellectual abilities. My son was deferred from an Ivy in the ED process despite being legacy, and accepted into UF Honors where he has no connections. I know a rejection can be heartbreaking, and often times we see no rhyme or reason, but I have no doubt kids end up where they are supposed to. I have been through this process only once with my older child and, if anything, have learned not to rationalize it too much. The initial disappointment is real, but in the end it does work out. Hope that gives some peace of mind to some of you. Best of luck!
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This is a key point. I have read and heard (on podcasts) multiple AOs make this point. This is also the most understood aspect of ECs. Schools don’t want a diverse applicant, they want a diverse student body. Schools don’t care if you belong to 7 clubs and play 3 sports and are in choir and orchestra. They would rather that the applicant is excellent and succeeds in one EC activity. They want to see that you can dedicate yourself to something, and achieve at a very high level.
You are quite wrong about that. If you go research the PaCE program of UF’s website, it CLEARLY states that PaCE students are “gators from day one.” For someone like myself, a Florida student, I would be entering with so many dual enrollment credits, that my time in PaCE would be limited. Additionally, with the current situation, most classes remain online, so regardless of whether a student is PaCE or not, chances are they are doing their classes online.
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Does anyone know when I am supposed to submit my housing contract? On the website it says to do it as soon as you submit your application and now I am worried I waited too long.
Admission numbers published this morning:
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That acceptance rate seems a good bit lower than it has been in the past, doesn’t it? About 29% if my math is right?
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We did ours last night. Go ahead and do it. Think we should have submitted in November.
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Okay thank you 
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It’s exactly the same as last year at 29%. Probably they are assuming a similar level of yield to fill the 6400-6500 seats.
Roughly 23 percent if you count only fall admits.
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I was going off of the most recent CDS available, for 2019-20, which had it at 37%. Maybe it was lower for fall 2020 admits.
They only had about 42,000 come in completed and before the deadline, so the extra 10k weren’t even considered. They are just padding the numbers to look good.
what were the gpa/sat average last year?
class 2024
GPA 4.4-4.6
SAT 1320-1460
ACT 30-33
similar to this year
The acceptance rate has constantly gone done, from 47% in 2014 to 29% in 2020.
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22% for fall. crazy!!!