<p>UF's early decision admissions program will be in jeopardy when the UF Board of Trustees meets today. </p>
<p>At a meeting Thursday, the board's Educational Policy and Strategy Committee decided to recommend that the board eliminate the program. </p>
<p>In an interview after the meeting, UF Provost Janie Fouke said, "We'd be doing a disservice to our student applicants if we kept it." </p>
<p>There are three deadlines for applicants now - October, November and January. But under the new system, there would only be one mid-November deadline. </p>
<p>Applying early requires applicants to contractually agree to come to UF if accepted. </p>
<p>Fouke said during the meeting that a main reason for eliminating the program is that some applicants who are turned down during early admissions could have had a better chance during the regular admission period. Because there are fewer slots open in the early period, it is more competitive. </p>
<p>The committee's chairman, Carlos Alfonso, said the new deadline would allow students to take the SAT at least one more time than the previous deadline allowed. </p>
<p>Fouke and the Office of Admissions will have the final say if the board axes the program, he said. </p>
<p>i live in FL and only 2 kids from my h.s. got into UF ED this year.
it's getting worse and worse there. it feels like they reject/accept at random.
people i know excellent across the board get the axe and other skate in.</p>
<p>i'm suprised many could have had a better shot RD. all the advice anyone ever gives is to go ED for better chances.</p>
<p>I think UVA has eliminated it starting this fall, not 100% sure. It was in our local newspaper a few months back. We live in Va Beach/Norfolk area.</p>
<p>Something about the students using ED are the same ones who would be accepted under the normal process anyway, and that it was causing a lack of diversity in the freshman class every year.</p>
<p>I'm sorry but Univeristy of florida no longer feels like a state university,although they have the largest budget of any florida university, and even have a larger budget than FAU and fIU combined (70k students together) they consider themselves as too exclusive to certain students, there financial aid offers have slowly been getting cut down, construction of new housing has been reduced, and admission is being reduced, while OOS admission has been increasing. Its now considered easier to get into the University of Miami, a private, then University of Florida, this is not right- the taxpayers are being screwed over.</p>
<p>and there now trying to increase tuition 33 % to lower class sizes and hire more professors....a school with the largest endowment in florida, it disgust me.</p>
<p>I don't think that UF is doing anything different than what the rest of the best public universities are doing. When your a member of the Association of American Universities you should be able to charge a reasonable amount. UF was shown to be the flagship with the lowest tuition in the United States (something like only 3k a year). FSU is another excellent state university that is not allowed to charge a reasonable tuition rate.</p>
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I'm sorry but Univeristy of florida no longer feels like a state university,although they have the largest budget of any florida university, and even have a larger budget than FAU and fIU combined (70k students together) they consider themselves as too exclusive to certain students, there financial aid offers have slowly been getting cut down, construction of new housing has been reduced, and admission is being reduced, while OOS admission has been increasing. Its now considered easier to get into the University of Miami, a private, then University of Florida, this is not right- the taxpayers are being screwed over. And there now trying to increase tuition 33 % to lower class sizes and hire more professors....a school with the largest endowment in florida, it disgust me
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<p>My understanding is that the Florida legislature is upset that Florida has three schools in the Top Ten Largest Schools By Heacount and none of them are in the usual Top Ten system for education/research in the nation. Apparently, the Florida system as it was set up rewards universities for enrolling great numbers of students... so UF, FSU, FIU and UCF all swelled up and 50k is about the cutoff point for enrollment at any university in the nation.</p>
<p>Fortunately, UF and FSU have high(er) graduation rates than some of the smaller (in acreage/headcount) schools like mine. Therefore they get great turnover but they might be hitting a bit of a bottleneck, as I hear there are going to be a great number of people applying in the next couple of years. It bodes well for other universities... for instance, FGCU could take on another 20k and FAU could handle that, if not more.... because of FAU's multiple campus system, they technically could grow greater than 50k+ if the quality applicants are there (FAU only admits a little over half of students that apply).</p>
<p>So anyway, that explains why there isn't much new housing being built at UF, despite having all that land. Besides, it seems like most people would rather live off campus and commute by the bus to school anyway.</p>
<p>In terms of the tuition increase, I've read that everyone is having this problem. It goes without saying that all the Florida universities would be in better shape if they charged $5000 a year for tuition/fees rather than $3000, but they can't raise the cost of public universities without state approval.</p>