<p>Rank :51/700 (top 7%)
GPA UW :3.73
GPA W :4.5
SAT: 1310/1600 (retook in oct. projected score is 1360-1410)</p>
<p>3 years Varsity Cross Country
3 years Varsity Track and Field
1 year Environmental Club
1 year Foreign lang Hon. society
100+ hours of community service</p>
<p>4 APS throughout all of HS</p>
<p>very nice stats. i think u have a great chance of getting in. those are about the average stats they accept people with so i think u should get int no problem. I would apply ASAP so you can try to get the honors scholarship. I’m currently a freshman in the Honors College so feel free to ask any specifics about it.</p>
<p>Are the towers the best place to live at UCF? I applied for the Honors college, and I have not been accepted yet. I’m wondering where I should apply for housing, since I will probably apply for housing before I recieve a decision for the Honors college.</p>
<p>It depends what you mean by best, thats always subjective and debatable. The cheapest places to live are Apollo and Libra, both freshman only communities. However, the chances of getting individual rooms are small, as Apollo only offers them in 5 person suites(the other 4 people split 2 double rooms) and Libra has none at all. Neither of these residence halls have kitchens. Kitchens, good person to bathroom ratio, and individual rooms are what make towers worthwhile and most of the honors kids live there so you can see them and hang out with them more often. I live in Apollo because Towers is pretty expensive. A suggestion I’ll offer is looking into Lake Claire. Its freshmen only but actually has a kitchen, living room, and individual rooms like Towers. It just isnt as new or nice looking but dont me wrong, its still pretty nice lol. Its also cheaper. Next year I’ll be moving to Nike or Hercules, they also offer the same set up as Lake Claire and Towers but only to upperclassmen. Hope some of this helped and hope I didnt confuse you. </p>
<p>P.S: dont worry about applying JUST yet. You may wanna wait to see if you get into honors which shouldnt take too long. I applied for housing in Feb. and got my first choice! I dont know if that was because most other people applied later and wanted other housing, or because honors gets some sort of priority. I think they try to give priority to freshmen for most housing if they can.</p>
<p>Thanks!!! I think I am going to apply for Towers housing as first choice and Lake Claire as second. How long did it take for you to hear back from the honors college?</p>
<p>It may vary depending by how strong of a candidate you are. If your great they’ll accept you right off the bat but if they have their doubts about you, they may wait a while to see how you stack up against other applicants. Some people get in really quickly. It took me 2 or 3 weeks to get in after I applied with a 4.0 unweighted/5.4 weighted GPA and 1420/2050 SAT score.</p>
<p>why did you choose UCF over UF with such stats?^</p>
<p>Well it was a combination of various reasons. For one, UF didnt offer me any merit aid. They just offered me the same need based aid I was being offered by both FIU and UCF, which is okay, but without UCFs Pegasus scholarship I wouldnt be able to afford housing. half of my housing is paid by that scholarship. also, I wasnt admitted to UF’s honors program since apparently the cutoff is 2070 SAT and i had a 2050. I also didnt like a large amount of the people from my school going there because they, like many but not all of UF’s students, have that “holier than thou” mentallity and consider themselves better than everyone else because theyre part of the Gator Nation. UF is also further from my hometown of Miami. I wanted to leave home but I didnt wanna go too far so I could return home on long weekends, like I am right now haha. There was also something of an intangible reason. Yes UF is a great school, one of the best in the country. But I wasnt particularly drawn to it. I applied because a close friend of mine wanted me to and that was the school he had his heart set on for years. He got turned down however and is now at UCF with me (I got him to apply haha). I was really happy I got in though. But nothing really called to me about UF or Gainesville. By the time they admitted me, I had already been accepted by UCF and had really given it so much thought that I had already fallen in love with UCF by that point. Just something about it.</p>