What are my chances of getting into the University of Florida?

UW GPA 3.2
WGPA 3.94
ACT: 31
Full IB diploma
3 sport varsity athlete
Captain of the debate team
Internship with a Financial management firm

Good. I would put you as a a likely candidate. find lots of other schools, cause your tastes may change

Not very high unless you’re Out-of-State.

UF cares a lot about GPA and people at my IB school with higher GPAs got rejected.

Your GPA will hurt your cause. You’ll have to really come up with a tantastic essay to compensate. Good luck, you may still make it!

I am from Maryland, does being out of state really help?

It seems to help a little. I think they like the out-of-state tuition the students pay, so they’re more lenient with their applications.

The average weighted GPA this year was 4.45 and will likely be 4.5+ next year when students apply. I’ve seen people on this thread get in with 4.2 GPA’s this year, but they all seem to be OOS kids. Someone told me that if you can afford to pay OOS tuition without any financial need, it’ll boost your application, but I have no idea how the whole system works. Others told me that UF likes geographical diversity, etc.

They’re all still rumors to me, but it’s something to keep in mind, I guess.

Also, last year they didn’t accept a single student who had below a 3.25-3 GPA, and only about 0.1% of the students they took had around a 3.3-3.5 GPA.

Source - http://www.ir.ufl.edu/CDS/Main_cds2016-2017.pdf

What major are you applying for?

Helpful remainder: UF’s GPA is not set in stone. If your school (like mine) only allows you to take AP’s in 11th and 12th your GPA will never be this high. Probably should mention UF is aware of rampant GPA inflation and will compare you to your classmates (GPA indicates how competitive you are within your school, ACT/SAT compares you with everyone else).

@Jnjrs Idk about the indicator thing within the school. They probably do compare you to your classmates but it doesn’t seem like it has much weight. Half of my class has above a 4.5 UF GPA and they’ve regularly accepted at least 90% of our class each year for the past 10+ years, so even if my school is grade inflated (which it isn’t), they still seem to have a preference for these schools.

They accept a lot more kids from schools who offer more APs as opposed to those that don’t. Here in Alachua, our 3 main feeder schools allow their kids to take 22+ AP classes and basically everyone gets in, whereas my friend in Miami claims that UF only accepted 7 people from her school. The ACT/SAT thing isn’t really used as a big indicator either. I think as long as you’re in the top %'s of your class at a school that doesn’t offer many APs, you’ll be okay, but my guess is that they’d take the kid who has a 4.5 GPA and is Top-50% of his class over the kid with a 4.1 GPA and is Top-25%. Just a guess, though, but the evidence I’ve observed seems to support it.

On their common data set, UF flagged the SAT as less important than GPA and they even said on their website that they consider coursework and GPA to be the most important factors during admissions.

“Please note that the University of Florida considers classroom performance an excellent indicator of college coursework success, and therefore places more emphasis on grades and the challenge of the high school curriculum (including the senior-year schedule).”

Also, @mpancake UF doesn’t consider major during admissions, it’s only used for placement. I know that if you choose a PaCE major they know they can put you in PaCE, but that’s about all it’s used for, I think.

@sushipanda You make a good point. All i know is that an admissions officer told me they recieve your schools curriculum and judge you based on that. A 4.4 gpa is weighted differently depending on the school you go to, and is considered in conjunction with course rigor. A 4.4 will not be impressive to UF if all you took were easy honor classes. About your school: I do believe thats just a causal relationship. Better schools typically offer more AP’s/harder courses, but not all schools that offer more AP’s are better schools. Besides, UF’s hollistic admissions means its practically impossible to accurately predict admissions based on academics.

PS. Is Harvard good because its Harvard? Or does the student make the institution? I don’t believe UF likes a particular school more than another, rather if the students are very (insert what UF wants in 2017 here) the students will be accepted individually based on their own merits and not on school brand name. Your school sounds like one full with motivated students who would probably get accepted to UF regardless of where they attend.

I agree with @Jnjrs

I also think the GCs make a difference. Some are better at advising, prepping and directing the right applicants to UF admission. My D’s school sends very few students to UF, not because it is not a good school, but I believe it is because the GCs do not advise the students well for UF admissions.