<p>im guesing its because there expecting a higher yield...</p>
<p>2010: had 6,700 actually enroll</p>
<p>2011: I can guarantee this class will have that many, if not more... </p>
<p>UF becomes significantly more competitive each year (as do all of the best public universities). As silly as it is, Floridians want to go to a winner. This expains the 8% increase in FTIC applicants over the Class of 2010.</p>
<p>You know the sports effect may be making a difference when Out-of-Staters rose to 20% this year/class of 2011- the campus recruiting presentation this year indicated UF's historical OOS population is 10%, stating it just reflected the same rate of out-of-state applicants (10% OOS applicants to total applicant pool). </p>
<p>It will be interesting to see if the ratio of OOS applicants stayed the same to in-state, and UF admitted more (as a strategy?) or if UF admitted the same ratio as prior years, but the OOS applicant pool increased. (Which formula will it be: Class of 2011 OOS = 10% of total applicants, 20% of admits * OR * OOS= 20% of total applicants, 20% of admits.)</p>
<p>Bottom line: less Florida residents got in to UF this year. (is my math correct- 10% [more OOS] of 9800 admits = 980 more OOS students/980 less In-state students? If you add in the fewer admits this year [9800]vs. last year [10,652], then the in-state admits was potentially reduced by as much as 1832 students)</p>
<p>"less Florida residents got in to UF this year."</p>
<p>Why is that necessarily such a bad thing? University of Virginia got almost half of it's class Out-of-State. Why should UF be stuck under 20% OOS admitted? </p>
<p>Let the other State Universities in Florida focus on In-State undergrads.</p>
<p>More out of state students = More revenue for UF. </p>
<p>Out of state students pay annual tuition and fees of $17,826 as opposed to $3,330 instate.<br>
Bottom line is that all UF students will benefit from the increase in out of state students.</p>
<p>I think people forget that UF is not the only public university in Florida. You still have UNF, UWF, USF, UCF, and FSU. All willing to take florida residents.</p>
<p>I am an out of state incoming freshman. I have to say that it is definitely getting tougher to get into Florida from out of state. Applicants from out of state that had great test scores, but did not do a whole lot of extracurriculars simply did not get in. I know a friend who got a 31 ACT and didn't get into UF.</p>
<p>Part of what has happened is that as UF's standards for academics have gone up, Bright Futures requirements have not. This has resulted in a deficit for tuition income. Out of state students are bearing the brunt of this, as the majority of in-state students are covered, at some level, by Bright Futures. </p>
<p>A perfect example of this is the budget cut of the National Merit program. My cousin is a junior at UF who received a full ride to UF by virtue of being a National Merit Finalist. The program reduced its scholarship offerings to finalists this year by 45%. I am also a National Merit Finalist, but am only receiving 55% of the package that my cousin was offered. While at first, it would seem that this would deter high-caliber out of state students, I'm starting to think that it isn't having the adverse affect that many within the Honors Program and Admissions Departments feared.</p>
<p>Out of state students are realizing that Florida is the place to be for both academics and athletics. I know of 5 people from the New Orleans area who were admitted to and plan on attending UF. 2 are National Merit Finalists. What this means is that UF is getting many of its top-notch students from out of state. At the same time, the university is pulling in more money from out of state tuition because out of state students are willing to pay a little bit more to go to UF rather than another university. I myself was offered full rides from 6 of the 10 universities that I applied to and over $800,000 in scholarships, but have chosen to attend UF and work my way through college (my parents can't afford to cover the difference left by the reduced National Merit Scholarship).</p>
<p>In short, the quality of education and athletics that UF provides is quickly becoming known. I expect that it will become significantly tougher to get into UF from in state in the coming years. This will be partly because the out of state applicants are generally more qualified. This is not necessarily a bad thing for the school since more revenue is generated through out of state tuition.</p>
<p>Please give me your input on the situation, I would appreciate any feedback you may have!</p>
<p>You sound like the perfect caliber student for UF. Best of luck to you in your future studies. It would be great if you could please help the alumni out by giving advice to potential Out-of-State Applicants on this forum. Thanks</p>
<p>I'll try to post from time to time. I'm going to try to stay in touch with some Honors/Admissions officers after I graduate, because I feel that my recruitment was fairly poorly handled. Luckily, I knew I wanted to go to UF, so that did not deter me. I think part of it had a lot to do with there being a lot of turnover in the Admissions Department this year at a critical juncture (circa February 15th). This made it extremely difficult for me to get information from UF about scholarship offerings, particularly the National Merit Program. For example, the deadline to submit UF as my first choice institution was pushed back 2 days prior to hitting the deadline. I'm sure this affected a lot of NMF and hopefully we didn't lose any because of it. I'll be very interested to see what the numbers turn out to be. Also, I talked to my cousin (junior at UF, also a National Merit Finalist and UF Honor Student) a lot during the process and he spoke with several representatives from both Honors and Admissions about the National Merit Program. I'm definitely interested in staying involved with UF after graduation, though.</p>
<p>there are scholarships posted on the UF site.......i've received $2k from one of the scholarships today.</p>
<p>I don't see what leads you to believe that acceptance rate makes a school better or worse. Schools generally have an amount of people they are going to accept set before hand, at that point it's just a matter of the amount of applicants. Just because a large amount of people have interest in a school doesn't necessarily make it a better school.</p>
<p>It's important because the more applicants a school has, the more selective it can be in choosing who is accepted. This allows a school to pick the best candidates among all of the applicants. This makes the makeup of the school more impressive in terms of average intelligence of each student. These statistics are what help a school's academic ranking and this ranking is, in part, what determines the "value" of a degree.</p>
<p>but aren't you contradicating what the school is preaching, you're talking about stats and they're talking about well rounded....in my opinion they tend to be opposites.</p>
<p>opposite? how so?</p>
<p>Not at all, the more applicants the school gets, the more "well-rounded" students will be available to choose from. Thus, the school can choose the students who have good statistics and were well involved in their high school. My friend got a 31 ACT and didn't get in, presumably because he didn't have a whole lot of extracurriculars. My other friend got a 30 ACT and played 3 sports as well as participating in National Honors Society, Mu Alpha Theta, etc. He got in. The point is that there are more well rounded students as a whole, meaning there is a higher number of well rounded studnets with very good test scores.</p>