<p>GPA- Unweighted = 3.55 / Weighted =4.2 (how my school weights it. I have taken 3 Honors classes) Ps. Freshman year = 3.26 Sophomore year = 3.47 = Junior year = 4.0</p>
<p>ACT- 30 (9 on writing top 6%)</p>
<p>Community service- 40 hours africa, 70 hours guatemala, 6 hours at a camp cite in CT, 4 hours for turkey trot in CT.</p>
<p>Volunteer work- Buddy tennis instructor (tennis with disabled kids)</p>
<p>Clubs- President/creator of SportsTalk club. Member of stock market club. Member of FBLA</p>
<p>Work experience- Work as instructor at tennis club. Counselor in training at tennis camp.</p>
<p>Achievements - Captain of tennis team, 2 time sectional and state champ for tennis, 10th Grade english Award </p>
<p>Future- Possibly get an internship, more community service. etc.</p>
<p>I am planning on applying at the earliest date possible next year. I am still a junior.</p>
<p>You’ll need to figure out your UF weighted GPA. UF gives an extra 0.5 points for honor classes and +1.0 points for AP/DE/IB/AICE classes. They only include academic classes. </p>
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<p>If your GPA falls into this range, UF is a match. However, UF uses holistic admissions, so admissions can seem a bit random.</p>
<p>Keep your GPA high this year (UF will not look at your senior grades for admission), take a normal/rigorous class schedule next year (UF likes to see a rigorous senior class schedule), keep working on your EC’s over the summer and spend time on the essay (it matters at UF). If you can, try to visit the school (to determine if you like the campus/school and to show a “level of interest” for admissions).</p>
<p>And one last thing sorry lol. Im interested in business and I know that UF has a great program. Does applying to the business school put me at any type of advantage or disadvantage in being admitted? @Gator88NE</p>
A 3.9 is a little low, but still in range. Since UF uses holistic admissions, your EC’s, essay and test scores will help compensate. Keep up on those EC’s and try to keep that 4.0 your junior year…
As a freshman, you don’t apply to your college (business), but to the University. If you pick business, you’ll be in the college, it doesn’t play a role in admissions (to the university). As long as you get your grads up, you’ll be fine. It’s a LOT harder getting in the business school as a transfer student.
@mom2collegekids It can make a difference (see the numbers below), but it’s not a significant issue (like GPA, class rigor, EC’s, etc) and it’s out of the OP’s control. In general, it’s better to be an in-state student than OOS, but holistic admissions could break either way for the student, based on what UF’s trying to accomplish. The in-state vs OOS stuff falls into that magic bucket called Holistic admissions. The AO’s will swear it doesn’t make a difference, but of course, it can.
It’s best to focus on what you can control (academics and ECs) and get into the middle 50% for stats (the higher the better). OOS vs In-state becomes much more of a factor if you’re in the bottom 25%, stats wise, as UF starts looking at other factors for admissions, such as what part of Florida is being under-represented and lower Florida SES students from poor performing Florida high schools.
Based on 2014 Admissions: Overall: 28,655 Applications => 13,072 Admits (45.6% Admit rate) => 6,514 Enrolled (49.8% Yield rate)
The admit rate is 48.7% vs 42.5% for OOS. Then again, the pool of in-state candidates may have different stats than the OOS candidates, so any comparison should be taken with that in mind.
