They somehow didn’t mention that. Is the number of incomplete applications consistent with the previous years?
The acceptance rate for fall also stays the same as last year. I was actually very nervous after collecting all those numbers. The school is becoming a lot more selective along with its rising ranking.
Fall and summer are both considered regular acceptances. I was told by admissions that there is not real difference. If that is the case, I would call that about 36% acceptance rate since only about 42,000 applications were considered.
This correct. I also spoke with admissions this morning. They look at the entire applicant pool and decide who they will admit. Then they grant all Summer B term preferences. But as more opt for Fall then summer then they have space for they take the remainder and have a computer randomly assign the remaining slots to either Fall or Summer. This is why the data in some years, including last year, reflected that the Summer term kids had slightly higher GPAs and test scores on average.
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I have seen the 42k number floating around. Do we know where is it from?
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Unverified rumors that about 10K kids applied without test scores. I am dubious that that is true. Why would you waste time when its always been clear that UF would never be test optional? I am sure a few applied thinking they could get a score in before the deadline and were unable to do so due to COVID or other reasons, but 10K of them?? that would be 20% of all applicants. As difficult as these times have been I just don’t think the number could be that high in my opinion. Maybe someone on here has reliable data that says otherwise but just seems like that number is too high.
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@aloedust Congratulations on being accepted to both UF & UT. Both are great schools with excellent pre med programs. My son was also accepted to both UF Honors (instate) 2 years ago as a National Merit Finalist. He was also accepted to Computer Science programs in Berkeley, Georgia Tech, UIUC (Honors), UT (Honors). He decided to go out of state after turning down UF Honors (Benacquisto Scholarship with Presidential Plat.) as he wanted to major in Computer Science. He would have chosen UF for premed in a heartbeat as it a fantastic program with a free ride. It was not an easy decision for him to turn down UF honors with a free ride plus $10,000/Year scholarship but he was strongly advised by friends in both Academia and Industry not to attend UF for CS as the department was in decline the last few years and the coursework and research/internship opportunities were below par.
He chose to attend UT Austin with Honors with only a $2,500 NMF scholarship from college board as both UT CS and location appealed to him. He only received a scholarship to waive the out of state tuition ($28,000) before the start of the academic year and it is being continued this year too because of his academic performance. It was a risky choice to attend UT Austin as OOS over UF, Berkeley, Georgia Tech and UIUC and today thankfully he has no regrets. He has had opportunities to learn and interact with fantastic faculty and peer group (CS, Math and Business). He has had amazing internship offers from both FANG and Hedge funds as a freshman in a Covid-19 year and regretfully had to turn down Google SWE and a Top Hedge fund Internship offers as a freshman.
Hope this helps at least few people on the fence to make hard decisions based on the right fit rather than ranking/reputations of the colleges.
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10K were either late (past priority deadline) or incomplete. See post from FL1234. We don’t have any idea how many didn’t have scores. On 12/3 Alligator reporter Corbin Bolies live tweeted from the UF Board of Trustees meeting that UF had 12,000 applications without scores. We don’t know how many ended up submitting those scores by the deadline.
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SAT scores were only due 12/15, that information is irrelevant. I took the october SAT and didn’t submit it until sometime in december. i’m sure that was also the case for many students.
@CrazyDad9 was wondering where the talk about 10K without test scores was coming from. That was my reply.
Well there you go. What a crazy year. Very sad to hear so many kids couldn’t test. I guess I am in a bubble as my twins were able to test with only a couple minor issues related to COVID. Hopefully all that couldn’t find a great test optional alternative.
In a previous comment u said that UF was ‘padding’ their admissions numbers by including 10k incomplete applications. the reality is that we don’t know how many were actually incomplete.
52,5113 applications. (Compared to 49,401 applicants last year.)
Average GPA is 4.51.
Average SAT score of 1392.
Average ACT score of 31.
11,972 acceptances for Fall.
3,248 acceptances for Summer B.
3,607 PaCE acceptances.
624 Innovation acceptances.
Total number accepted is 15,220 or ~ 29%.
UF expects 6,400 students to enroll.
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I said completed by the deadline. We got last years numbers from Melissa and this year she said UF released a little more decisions than they did last year. (you can see that in the post from FL1234 above) and you can see below for what Melissa said last year. From those two posts, I think you can assume that UF had about 10K had either incomplete or late applications for the class of 2025. FSU released only 40K decisions out of 62,574 applications. The rest were submitted past the priority deadline or incomplete. It’s not unusual to see this. It doesn’t take away from UF being amazing,
Sounds like your son would succeed wherever he went, even UF. There are many students at UF who also have/had great opportunities in CS with internships and jobs at Google and Top Hedge Funds as freshmen. It is highly dependent upon the student on what opportunities they pursue. Hopefully, students will be able to physically tour and interact with other students to help determine their best fit.
That is not the acceptance rate. Those numbers are the total accepted and percentage of each accepted. OOS 41% + IN STATE 45% + UNDETERMINED 15% = ~ 100% of ACCEPTED
UF also announced last year that it will be creating the world’s fastest Artificial Intelligence supercomputer in higher education. May be interesting to those in the CS field. UF plans to incorporate AI into the curriculum across all colleges, not just for those studying CS.
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Those percentages were my calculation based on the UF official data for class 2023. For example, in state, 7922 admits from 17273 applications which leads to a 45% acceptance rate.
Do you know by any chance if this bill discontinues Benacquisto for in-state students also? Thank you.