Hi ok please let me know what you think my chances are of getting in.
Major: Biology with a concentration in Pre-Veterinary Science
Unweighted GPA: 3.49
Weighted GPA: 4.53
ACT/SAT scores: 1370
Class Rank: Top 20% out of 596 people (I don’t remember my exact rank)
In State/Out of State: In State
Community Service Hours: 198
Coursework: 3 AP’s, 18 Dual Enrollments, and the rest honors (also took 3 years of pre-aice spanish)
Extra-curriculars: 4 years on high school dance team (section leader junior year, dance captain senior year), 4 years of chamber orchestra playing the cello, 4 years Tri-M music honor society, 1 year green and marine science club as the historian, 1 year calligraphy club as historian, 1 year dance for change club, and I had a part-time job my junior year at a veterinary clinic.
UF is really the only in-state school I can go to since it has a veterinary school so my fingers are crossed! Give me your honest opinions though.
what is your recalculated gpa? thats the only GPA that matters… your SAT is spot on. though. hopefully the gpa is at least a 4.2 . if so you look great with everything you have.
One never knows for sure with UF’s holistic admissions, so everyone has a chance. UF emphasizes GPA and rigor. Your rigor looks great but the GPA might be on the low side. As @jhmoney said, the only way to tell if your GPA is in the UF range is to figure out the UF recalculated GPA. Your test score is good, but UF doesn’t weigh that as heavily as GPA/rigor. Also, most kids at UF are in the top 10% of their class. All that being said, I think you have a good chance, but I would recommend having some safeties lined up. Let us know what happens in February.
@laurenfletchyt Couldn’t you get your bachelors degree somewhere else and then apply to the UF vet program. I am no expert, but thought that it was like med or law school where you enter vet school after earning a BS.
Regarding your chances to get into undergrad at UF, do you have any idea how many students from your high school get into UF every year? Looking at the accepted profile of the students from your high school is the best indicator of your chances. As others have said, GPA and course rigor are most important to UF and many believe that UF compares those at the same high school because the grading and course offerings vary so much between high schools.
Your guidance counselor should be able to show you what that profile looks like for students at your high school and this may help you see where you fit relative to the recent graduating classes from your high school.
My experience is that UF does not view dual enrollment as very rigorous. These courses, if taken at a community college which most are, are simply not taught to the same level as they are at UF.
Given that you have 18 dual enrollment courses, it seems like a logical assumption that you took almost all dual enrollment courses during your Junior and Senior year. Even with a GPA bump of almost all dual enrollment classes, your GPA likely falls below the Middle 50% Academic Core GPA: 4.3-4.6.
Your SAT of 1370 is within the Middle 50% SAT: 1330-1460 but is likely below the 50% mark.
Finally, your class rank is not within the top 10% of your class. Per the common data set, 77% of freshmen are in the top 10% of their freshman class.
I’m not trying to rain on your parade but only inject some quantifying standards to the numbers that you presented. Of course, UF has a holistic admissions process and while your numbers don’t make UF a longshot, they appear to make UF a significant stretch.
With that said, I genuinely wish you luck with your UF application.
@FlaParent my experience with UF, FSU and Wisco are they treat Dual Enrollment exactly like IB, AP, & AICE. they will publicly tell you that. Most kids take it because its not offered at their school and in order to take more rigorous classes, you need it.there is no way for them to try and distinguish which college level courses are harder… for example, is IB harder than AP/AICE? who’s to say. it could be different at every school with every teacher… thus they count them equally. now i do think certain schools get more kids in, so that could be a way of balancing that out. but as a whole they count them… i have many many examples of kids who have taken a lot of DE versus not and have gotten into UF
I agree with those defending DE classes vs AP (not that it needs to be done). My S has taken 4 DE classes taught at a community college and I can assure you they were, in my humble opinion, more rigorous than the AP classes being offered by non-college professors at his high school. I have no idea how UF qualifies DE classes, but my S got a real taste of what college classes will be like with DE and I am thankful they were available to him.
@DaneelOlivaw UF , FSU , UCF only count the core classes… Math Science Social Studies English and Foreign languages. Classes like PE, ART, Band, SGA etc do not count . so you remove them from the equation.
Any AP, IB, AICE Dual Enrollment (Core Classes) are calculated like this
A= 5 B= 4 C=3 etc
Any Honors classes (Core Classes) are calculated like this
A= 4.5 B= 3.5 C=2.5 etc
Any regular classes (Core Classes) are calculated like this
A= 4 B= 3 C=2. etc
If your school does + or - grades ie. B+ C+ B- C- etc… remove the plus and minus ( the schools do not count them) count them as a B or a C only.
so folks just a quick update. she got into FSU, got a deferred from UM and got rejected at UTA and UF. Anyone else hear back from UF? It was all posted just a little while ago.