OOS
1400
4 UF GPA
Great ECs
Business
D was accepted! She is elated. 
OOS (Virginia)
GPA: 3.93 UW; 4.54 W
SAT: 1400 (680 RW, 720 M)
Great ECs
@Melissa96 nope. just high school diploma. UF has been a family legacy school so it’s my dream to go there!
Can someone comment on how a student (in this case, my son) who applied as a HS senior got a notification from the admissions office thinking that he was applying as a transfer student from a community college or another college? This is what happened to my son, and he checked his common app, and he clearly checked off the box indicating that he was applying from HS. This seems like an unbelievable screw up.
I applied late (post-11/01)
Will admissions be rolling or come out on March 31st now?
@PsychoDad10 yikes. Sounds like a call to admissions is in order. I have no special knowledge but two questions. Did he earn an AA while in high school? You said common app. UF uses the coalition app.
Sorry- I meant coalition app. No he didn’t earn an AA. Unfortunately the admissions office was not open after the decisions were released, so he will be calling on Monday.
@studentin2023 okay then you need to contact admissions on Monday
Is there a way to request a change from PaCE to summer? @Melissa96 and @GatorDad305 you seem very knowledgeable, Gator alum dad here asking for a friend…
@PsychoDad10 I am in the same situation. I didnt earn an AA but I got some sort of transfer email. If you do have any update, please inform me.
Thank you!
Yikes, it amazes me that at a state school (albeit at a public “ivy”) highly credentialed students, of Ivy prospects, get denied by Florida. Admissions have a random element that is hard to understand. I thought state school admissions were much more stats than “soft” credentials driven. Congrats at all that were offfered admission, and all the best to those that were not, given the huge weird randomness in the process.
Son accepted into PACE when All of his qualifications were superior to many of the accepted students. His essay was critiqued as superior and he has been awarded presidential scholarships (top tier) at both public and private institutions (if you believe the rankings, some more selective than U of F). 4.0 unweighted and all that other stuff everyone else has. Could it be that the admissions officer had a bad day and made an error? I’m not going nuts on the admissions office or anything like that but is there a chance of oversight @melissa96? PACE Seems like an odd path for him given his strength. Is it unusual to appeal or should that be something to consider? With all of the tens of thousands of apps, I’m sure oversights happen. U of F is top choice for him so maybe worth perusing? Thanks in advance for your insight.
UF is not a public Ivy by any stretch of the imagination. And their admissions are all over the place as was evident today at my daughter’s school. SO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU UF. Leaving people wondering where they went wrong when they did nothing wrong and everything right, while others skate in with no rhyme or reason. Sorry it’s the truth. Am I angry? You bet and with good reason. Something needs to change with college admissions. When an applicant gives you everything you ask for and more and still get denied, something is wrong!
@tooldad. UF is a selective school which means the process really is holistic. Applications are reviewed by multiple people at different levels. Congratulations to your son on getting an offer. It was a very competitive class.
@GatorCheer I know plenty of stellar applicants with both excellent academics and extracurriculars that don’t get in. This has been a reoccurring theme for the past few years, at least amongst in-state students at my school and at the schools in my city.
Now I did get in, sort of, so this obviously didn’t affect me negatively, but there’s something going on with the admissions that doesn’t seem to match up with what any other university does. There just seems to be a lot of discrepancies when compared to other schools. This isn’t meant to discredit anyone that got in without the highest GPA or test scores, of course, but the admissions office is definitely doing something odd when it comes to how they make their decisions.
Son accepted OOS
Top 3.5% of high school class
SAT 1450 with 770 Math and 680 Verbal
3.89 UW / 4.67 W with 13 AP’s and remaining Honors
Senior Class President / 4 yrs Student Gov’t
Eagle Scout
Varsity Soccer 4 years
NHS President
Applied for Biomedical Engineering
Go Gators!
@GatorCheer Quite honestly, I have no idea. Whenever admissions officers have come and spoken to students at my school, they always describe the admissions process in a really confusing way. I’ve heard interpretations from them comparing three similar applicants and picking the best out of those, to it simply being a lottery. They also heavily emphasised not wanting ‘nerds’ at their school when speaking specifically to a class I was in (it was someone from the school of music speaking to my orchestra). The whole process just seems pretty elusive lol.
@jpdelgado29 there’s no harm in asking but I think the odds are long. UF accepts appeals but the word on the street is that it is tough to “win” one. I haven’t heard of kids being moved from Pace to summer but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. The successful appeals, I think, usually involve significant extenuating circumstances. The real goto is @Gator88NE.
Son accepted to Honors, Research Scholars Program, and Admissions Scholarship of 2k
Stats: 1570 SAT/17 AP’s/Leadership/400 hours of service/Hispanic
in state
31 ACT
3.5 unweighted
4.4/6 weighted
ok extracurriculars
solid essay
complete rejection