University of Florida Admission Problem

<p>I applied for the fall semester but checked off the box for the innovation academy. When I got my acceptance letter it said I was accepted for the spring 2014 term. I want to go to the fall term. Is there any way to fix this?
I may have been rejected for the fall semester but I highly doubt it as I know many other people who were less qualified than me that got into the fall semester.</p>

<p>I would simply call the office of admissions and ask them about it.</p>

<p>If you checked off fall and innovation academy you gave them conflicting information. To go to innovation academy you have to start in spring and only go spring-summer and not go in the fall. You may have problems getting into fall because you were accepted on the basis that you would go to innovation academy which starts in spring.</p>

<p>Just a heads up, I do NOT recommend IA. I’ve heard awful things from friends (currently a freshman at UF)</p>

<p>Didn’t the first Innovation Academy class just start like a month ago? How many “awful things” could people have heard in that time? I’m sort of assuming people who got in for Innovation Academy cannot easily switch to another semester, so Easttowest, do you recommend they all just go to UCF instead?</p>

<p>If your decision was for Spring to the Innovation Academy then that is the term you were admitted. Their website was just updated. They are going to be holding spring visits to learn more about the program. You can get information here [Visit</a> IA - UF Innovation Academy](<a href=“http://innovationacademy.aa.ufl.edu/visit-ia.aspx]Visit”>http://innovationacademy.aa.ufl.edu/visit-ia.aspx)</p>

<p>We have same issue. I have the application in front of me. Preferred semester of entry = Fall 2013. I even went in (created new temp ID) and don’t even see where the applicant would be asked about IA.</p>

<p>But I found this on IA website re: admissions -
“To apply to the Innovation Academy, freshman applicants should indicate interest in the Innovation Academy on their UF undergraduate admissions application. Applicants who choose to apply to the Innovation Academy will also be considered for the traditional new student fall/summer admission to UF. Selection for admission to the Innovation Academy will follow the same holistic review process and be as rigorous as the selection to UF in general.”</p>

<p>So it is not an admission route for those not qualified but this is extremely confusing. They should not permit entry of conflicting information or they should make it clear that this is your only choice for admission. I see nothing that says you will be considered after being rejected from fall pool of admits, which seems to be the tone some of the messages on this board seem to take.</p>

<p>We are going down there in April so we’ll take a good hard look. If D can move to fall, Gator Nation could be a contender for #1.</p>

<p>Thanks all.</p>

<p>Melissa, thanks for the info on the information sessions. We were planning on going up to visit on the 22nd anyway, so I signed my daughter up for the IA session then too.</p>

<p>There is a spring admission of 2014 which is NOT IA.</p>

<p>Spring admission is IA. Now, ill keep it very simple, I’ve said it a lot before on these forums however it’s totally fine that you don’t know yet because I haven’t seen you post here before, but here I go: YOU WERE NOT REJECTED FALL OR SUMMER. Okay, the term you indicated had no bearing on your acceptance. People don’t “get rejected for fall but in for summer” or even “rejected fall summer but in for IA”, that’s not how you uf works. Everyone is holistically reviewed then admitted as one enrolling class; then admissions puts everyone in their preferred term. They fill up fall till they can’t fill up anymore (the remainder gets summer b), they fill up summer b till they can’t fill up anymore and they fill up IA. Those who indicated IA, are more likely to get into IA if they indicated interest because admissions would rather have YOUR fall/spring spot be given to someone else who would otherwise be rejected due to spacing issues, and you on the other hand attend Spring/Summer. </p>

<p>If you didn’t want IA, you shouldn’t have checked that box. I mean no offense (seriously, none at all), but this is your fault. IA isn’t for everyone, and this year on applications, admissions made it clear what IA was and there was even a website for applicants to use to see everything about IA and ask questions about IA. </p>

<p>Fact is this, those who indicate IA have a MUCH LARGER CHANCE of getting IA, IF they are admitted because its preferable they go spring/summer (which uf assumes they’d be fine with because they “SELF SELECTED” IA), so another student can have their fall/spring spot. If you didn’t check the box, you would’ve gotten into fall or summer. Now, I have friends in IA, some who loved it from the start and some who hated it. The ones that love it are having a great time at uf right now, while some of those that hated are beginning to love it. The only ones that keep hating it are my friends who just want to party all the time and refuse to take anything in IA seriously (like their creativity class) because they refuse to give it a chance.</p>

<p>And I’ll repeat. My friends D was admitted for Spring and it was not for IA.</p>

<p>Yeah this isn’t normal if she got in for just simply spring and not IA</p>

<p>the kids i know from my school have all tried to transfer into fall term from IA. It must not be great if people are already trying to get out. Once you are in IA you cant transfer into Fall Spring sessions</p>

<p>If you click that IA box it’s like you arent considered for fall you are just put into it. For example a girl that was 25 in my class accidentally clicked the box and was put into IA. I didnt get into the university and was 50. My good friend was 78 all stats lower then me but clicked the IA button and got in. It is all based on class ranking unless you do IA. They need to keep the money coming in from the state so they need as many students in the program as possible</p>

<p>zambez & NJMom2017 - curious about your final decisions. Did you choose IA or elsewhere? My son (also admitted to IA after “checking the box” without understanding the program’s limitations) ended up selecting FSU. Aside from not allowing the student to have the traditional fall/spring experience, a key factor for him was the lack of flexibility around selection of majors (especially technical/engineering). After multiple calls and emails to IA, the academic departments, and admissions, his term change request was denied.</p>

<p>As “sabertooth” said, those who check IA, who are qualified candidates, are very likely to be admitted to IA, and very unlikely to ALSO receive a general Fall/Spring acceptance letter to UF. The Innovation Academy operates strictly on a Spring/Summer program schedule, which is not everyone’s cup of tea, but for those who purposely select it, it offers many benefits. </p>

<p>That being said, there IS the option to apply for: ONLY IA (Spring Admission), traditional admission (available for Fall, Spring, OR Summer terms), or to apply for both.
**<strong><em>[When you apply for both, the more common thing is to be admitted ONLY to IA, since there are less people who apply for this program and thousands who apply to general UF admission.]</em></strong>
You can’t use application to IA as an in-road to get into UF, and then switch to the traditional Fall/Spring schedule. That being said, the OPTION to be admitted for both is there; it is just very rare that a student will be admitted to both traditional and IA programs and offered the possibility to choose.</p>

<p>UF is actually trying to get away from the ambiguity on the application. My brother is filling out his application for Traditional Fall 2014 admission currently, and when you click “YES” on “Would you like to be considered for admission to IA?” it actually has several pop-ups etc. asking you to verify that you mean it. They realize the ambiguity that students who were admitted the first year of IA faced; some of them didn’t realize that when they were offered admission to IA, it meant they were admitted for the Spring/Summer schedule IA program, NOT able to simply “switch” back to Fall admission once they realized they couldn’t take classes on-campus in the Fall.</p>

<p>The benefits of having the Fall free are numerous. UF assists IA students in finding internships, study abroad programs, jobs, etc. during the fall semester off. Students are allowed the option to take certain ~online~ classes during the Fall, but have to figure out payment for these classes, as most financial aid packages cover only 2 semesters.
My friends in IA love it; one was able to study abroad the entire fall semester, and another friend got an internship.
It really does depend on a student’s individual goals and preferences.
I think the IA is great for students who want to add a minor in Innovation, very practical in the 21st century, to their repertoire and enjoy a small-group environment within the very large community of UF as a whole.</p>

<p>Necro… 10char</p>

<p>Just think of it like this: you have to get into UF first, then after that, admissions will put you in summer, fall, or iA (depending on what you put on the app). After accepting you, admissions is more likely to put you in iA if indicated because its a lot easier to fill in the fall and summer spots with so many other students</p>

<p>Err…no, it’s a bit more complicated than that…</p>

<p>(the following numbers are for illustration purposes only…i.e…I made them up! But they are in the ball park)</p>

<p>Lets say they have 6,500 Summer/Fall slots and 400 IA slots. UF then figures it needs to offer admission to 12,000 applicants, to yield 6,900. To come up with the 12,000, it determines it needs to offer 850 to IA applicants and 11,150 to Fall/Summer applicants. 850 IA applicants will yield 400 IA students, while 11,150 Fall/Summer would yield 6500 Fall/Summer students (I would expect the yield to be better for Fall/summer students than IA).</p>

<p>If the best 12,000 applicants do not have enough IA applicants (850 in our example) to yield 400 IA students, they will look at the next 1,000 applicants, until they reach 850. Lets say they have to look at 14,000 applicants…to find 850 IA applicants…</p>

<p>Now take 14,000 applicants, subtract 850 and we have 13,150. UF will only offer to 11,150 of these applicants…(remember, our total is 12,000 to yield 6500+400). </p>

<p>So, if they don’t have enough qualified IA applicants, you could have better overall qualified applicants turned down, over a slightly less qualified IA applicant. In the above example, 2000 better qualified applicants (than some IA applicants) where turned down, because all of the Fall/Summer slots where filled.</p>

<p>It’s really based on how many folks are selecting IA. If 850 of that top 12,000 had selected IA, then we would find no difference between IA applicants and Fall/Summer applicants. If more than 850 applicants (out of 12,000) picked IA, then UF would offer them Fall/summer, since the IA slots are full. </p>

<p>Is your chances of being accepted to UF better as an IA applicant? Maybe. Only the AO’s know the make up of this years pool of applicants. </p>

<p>Is it significantly better? No. The difference between applicant number 12,000 and 14,000 is very small (and with holistic admissions, hard for anyone other than an UF AO to detect…they likely have the same academics and it’s coming down to the Essay and ECs). And it would only come into effect if they don’t have enough IA applicants it meet Yield.</p>

<p>Before checking IA as a step into UF check the list of available majors for IA–it is more limited than regular admission.</p>