<p>Hey Im an American green-card holder from Bangladesh. I was looking for answers about my chances of acceptance at the UF engineering. I gave my olevels and alevels under British Council. I gave a PSAT exam as a premilinery test to the real SATs. I am totally confident that I’ll score a 2000+ at the real SATs. I had good Olvels grades, did great at my major science subjects. Thoe I did really bad at my Alevels. Got really poor grades at most of my subjects. I got great scores at TOEFL too. So if I apply for the next session with a 2000+ score, what are my chances of getting in? </p>
<p>Any help,advice would be much appreciated. Thnx</p>
<p>Hi, most of us don’t really know how to evaluate O or A levels or how UF handles international students. A score of 2000+ on the SAT would be fine (the avg freshmen SAT score is around 1967)</p>
<p>See the link below, but it looks like UF uses a credential evaluation agency to calculate a “GPA” for your courses.</p>
<p>“Effective with the Summer B 2014 application, undergraduate applicants (beginning freshmen and transfer) are also required to submit secondary and college or university credentials from non-U.S. institutions to a credential evaluation agency for a course-by-course evaluation with grade point average calculation. UF recommends a member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services or the International Education Credential Services provided by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.”</p>
<p>Ahhhh, great… So now that thing all over again for transfer, I thought that was already behind me… Ohhh well.</p>
<p>Thank you Gater88NE, that gives me a weird feeling all over again that I have to submit my older transcripts… But at least I know this way ahead of time, that I have to do that again. Is there any information on how much that will weigh in on admissions? I had a 3.3 GPA, with a C in math back in school… Now I have a 4.0 GPA and got a freshman math award…</p>
<p>^^^Test90, are you a transfer student? If you’re a transfer student, they only care about your grades in college (they also require that you’ve taken 60 credits…and if in a CC that you’ve earned your AA degree). </p>
<p>I assumed Ifyoucanliveit is a freshmen. </p>
<p>By the way, as a freshmen you apply to UF and not the college of engineering. As a transfer you would apply to your college (like engineering). Each college has additional mininum requirements for transfer students.</p>
<p>But it says “Effective with the Summer B 2014 application, undergraduate applicants (beginning freshmen and transfer) are also required to submit secondary and college or university credentials from non-U.S. institutions to a credential evaluation agency for a course-by-course evaluation with grade point average calculation.”</p>
<p>Wouldn’t that mean, that I as a transfer with an AA would also have to send in my HS transcripts, starting with Summer B next year?</p>
<p>And yeah, I have 40 credits so far and I will have over 70 when I am ready to transfer with all the critical tracking completed. UF is my first choice university, that is why I am a little bit worried, if they would want(?) my HS transcripts too.</p>
<p>If you’re an international student, it could be read that way. But it is a little vague, I would check with the admissions office.</p>
<p>For example, it could be read as they want Transfer students to send the university credentials (international) to a credential evaluation agency. They want a Freshmen to send high school info to the credential evaluation agency (which is how I read it). Check with admissions!! :)</p>
<p>It seems that all international work (HS and University, HS only, University only, HS or University) that will impact admissions needs to be evaluated by a credential agency.</p>
Thank you :)</p>