what's my chance?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Florida
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<p>hey, I'm a senior in ca. </p>

<p>ACT: 31 or 2100 sat</p>

<p>AP's: Span- 5 Eng- 4 US History- 3</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 florida recalc. </p>

<p>ECs listed on app: football, track, was in 2 clubs, and work</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: did finances that were really receipts at a family friend's company and also had a job there too</p>

<p>Essays (subject and responses): already started so they should be very good- on two hardships that have come down on me the last 2 years, and my dealing w/ them. </p>

<p>Teacher Recs: better than great</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: great</p>

<p>School Type: Private, does not rank </p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Gender:M</p>

<p>Also: Took 3 summer courses at a local comm. college; got A's</p>

<p>thank you very much</p>

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<p>The GPA is going to hurt you, especially considering you're OOS</p>

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<p>As an out of stater who was rejected, let me tell you my experience. When I went on a tour and spoke with the Admissions office, they were gong-ho on using a holistic approach to freshmen applicants - HOG WASH! All they look at and care about are: (1) GPA and (2) SAT/ACT. Your GPA (for an out of state student) is low, but you have a fighting chance with your SAT/ACT scores.</p>

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<p>I'm an in state student and I have a PSAT score that's enough for National Merit. My SATs and GPA are almost the same, does National Merit improve my chances or do they not care about that either?</p>

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<p>IMO SAT plays the biggest role if your gpa is in their ballpark. If you're OOS it's a different story because they have such higher standards for them...IMO</p>

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<p>anyone else with a thought on this?</p>

<p>btw i highly recommend chris brown's new song forever. very strong.</p>

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I'm an in state student and I have a PSAT score that's enough for National Merit. My SATs and GPA are almost the same, does National Merit improve my chances or do they not care about that either?

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Up until like this year being a national merit finalist got you a huge scholarship. I got something like 24k over 4 years on top of bright futures, but I think at some point they eliminated the scholarship. Maybe you can list it under accolades, but other than that it's pretty useless. I will say this though that in the past UF has been pretty big on mentioning their number of National Merit finalists.</p>

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<p>Important criteria for admissions:
1. SAT/ACT
2. Weighted GPA, class rank, top 1-10% of high school class
3. Strength of course load
4. Extra curriculars and essay.
This is just my opinion based on the 50 to 60 students at my high school that got accepted this year.</p>

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<p>I still think essay does play a large part in admissions. One of my friends has a strong moving hardship essay and she was accepted despite low SAT. It helps that you're Hispanic.</p>

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<p>bump for undecided major chance</p>

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<p>UE, I don't think strong essays matter that much... I wrote my essay one hour before the application deadline on Nov. 1 (which probably ended up being crappier than thousands of essays from excellent writers) and I still was accepted to the fall term. GPA, SATs, and ECs play a much bigger role</p>

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<p>I don't think extracurriculars play that big a role, either. GPA and SAT/ACT score are the main things.</p>

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UE, I don't think strong essays matter that much... I wrote my essay one hour before the application deadline on Nov. 1 (which probably ended up being crappier than thousands of essays from excellent writers) and I still was accepted to the fall term. GPA, SATs, and ECs play a much bigger role

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<p>Haha, so true! Granted I was a NMF, there was an essay topic like "how can you contribute to the diversity of UF" and I wrote essentially "there's no way to be unique when a campus has 45000 students".</p>