Could someone help me understand how Florida Public schools work? I’ve seen many with 3.9+ UW but with an SAT in the mid 1300’s. Is this normalcy for Florida students? I’m oos, and I struggled to get a 3.7UW/4.1W but got a 1560 SAT. Is there just a lot of grade inflation at Florida Public schools?
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Every where has grade inflation. 30 years ago a 3.2 was great.
You have 4.0s that get 25 ACTs and 3.3s that get 1500s.
Your 1560 is unreal. Congrats. I assume you take a rigorous schedule. But perhaps academically you have some minor shortcomings that don’t show up on a multiple choice test. 3.7 still great.
ya, i understand gpa’s are inflating nationwide–i just noticed it appears much more so in Florida. I’m just rlly hoping admissions sees my rigorous course load of all honors/APs, UF is my top choice rn. i’m also taking linear algebra and applying for engineering so hopefully that helps too.
A 3.7 and 1560 will get u in. Of the top 30 schools Florida is far easiest to get into. Engineering is tough but u will be fine
certainly hope so!
@erd1020 I saw on the website they list the numbers as transfers. Does that mean that they accepted that number ? Or does that is how many 195 are attending?
That is not true. Not all kids at Stanton are IB. They are a fully dedicated magnet but there is an AP track and IB track. All kids there are high performing but they are not all IB
When a kid takes 8 IB/AP courses a year unweighted GPA’s go up since classes are on a 5 point scale
Yes Stanton has AP also but no AP kid has been accepted at UF the last 3 years. Every year Stanton has 450 kids (150 IB and 300 AP kids)…but the class size drops to 300-350 because they end up at neighborhood schools
So I got some info about FSU. Maybe it will give some insight into what may happen with UF. So on the FSU website it says they had 62,574 applications. Yesterday they released 40,000 decisions and accepted about 20,000. This means remaining applications were submitted after the deadline or were incomplete.
@Navybrat70 UF does not use that 5 point scale for unweighted GPA. All student GPAs are normalized to a 4.0 scale when entered into the SSAR, that’s why they do it. High schools have different weighting methodologies making comparisons meaningless otherwise.
When UF calculates the “recalculated GPA”, an A is 4 points unweighted. Then there is a weighing applied (0.5 for Honors, 1.0 for AP/IB) and then that GPA is the weighted GPA, which is what they publish in their admission statistics. Also, non-core classes are excluded from the recalculated GPAs.
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@flprepaidmom My understanding is # attending that’s why it says transfers…? from all 10 schools, not sure specifics of Spanish River
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Any chance decisions will come out today?
No. They don’t release early ever. 2/26 in the afternoon.
A lot of top state schools are the same. We live in Maryland and every year we hear stories of the kid that got into Harvard but rejected at UMD. We were caught up in that as well but much relieved after daughter got in UMD honors and UNC Chapel Hill Honors. Now we are waiting on UF. The kids will do fine regardless of where they end up!
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Really I’m from MD and I’ve never heard of UMD yield protecting.
I wasn’t referring to yield protecting - I haven’t heard of that practice here either. I was referring to people worrying about high stat kids not getting in to top state schools but getting into schools like Harvard. I have never heard of UMD denying because they assumed those kids are using them as a safety.
For the people that sent their ap scores, do you see them anywhere on the portal?
@Olive88 yes there is always that random Val or Sal that doesn’t get into UF and gets a full ride to Miami or gets into an Ivy. Last year my older d’s BF did not get into FSU and got into UF, so who knows.
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Are official scores required? My son only did self-report.
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