Does anyone know what percentage of out of state students accepted to the University of Florida receive one of the three merit scholarships for out of state students?
I saw that U of F gave only 45 scholarships total last year – looks like that might be only 1-3% of accepted OOS students who would receive financial assistance in the form of a scholarship. (Yikes.)
From UF itself? Yes, it is a low number. It is also a low number of instate students that receive merit aid from UF. Instate students can receive Bright Futures, and both instate and OOS NMF get a full ride from Benacquisto scholarship. BF and Benacquisto are separate state programs not awarded by the schools.
UCF has a much higher number of school scholarships. FSU has a different program too, and some OOS students get instate tuition as part of their awards.
@twoinanddone Thanks for the response. D is also applying to UCF and South Florida, where there seem to be more possibilities for merit aid at each one. Her brother is at UCF engineering on a Knights Achievement Award, which helped us finance his engineering degree. 
She’s also applying to UVA and JMU (in-state). What’s crazy is that it’s less expensive for D to go to South Florida out-of-state than it is for her to go to UVA in-state.
45 was tor the Fall of 2016, we don’t know the number yet for last year (Fall 2017). Fall 2015 they gave out 137 (52 Alumni, 47 Sunshine and 38 Gator Nation), while in 2014 they award 93, so it varies by year. All of this data comes from the “Office of Admissions Annual Report”.
http://cloud.flipb.com/university-of-florida/admissions-2018annual-report/index.html
Heres the annual report with 2017 stats. Page 13 has the scholarship awards.
Thanks @leonmomma. Looks like it’s very competitive, but D can always hope! She does have very strong ECs so there’s a chance.