DS acccepted
HealthSc/Biology
OOS
SAT 1500
ACT 31
GPA 4.21 weighted
5 AP courses
Has anybody received scholarship info?
Your daughter has accomplished a lot then, and she should be very proud of herself! As parents we want to tell them to focus on their successes and to be proud of themselves, but in the heat of the moment they usually don’t want to hear it. Sometimes it doesn’t mean a lot coming from their biggest fans (we the parents). The decision was a huge blow for so many of these kids. I think, once the dust settles, she will be okay. I’m sure she’s grieving right now, and just needs to process it in her own way. Don’t take any of this to mean I consider myself a parenting expert. We’ve absolutely made our fair share of mistakes. We’ve been parents for thirty years, and have learned quite a bit along the way!
@Noble19 thanks. We may not be able to afford OOS but never consulted us before applying LOL
Will likely accept Purdue with no schol and leave the 6 with schol on table
We did tour the school, but her essay was not UF specific. It was specific to the type of person she sees herself as. My husband’s friend reviews essays for a scholarship at UVA. He read her essay, and thought it was very good. We asked him to be honest, and he reported he felt it was very easy to read, and the content was excellent. She will be graduating from a class of 23, and one student from her school was accepted. Her SAT score was the same as our daughter’s, but she showed more rigor with her DE courses. Perhaps a comparison was made there. In which case, her rigor surpassed our daughters. She absolutely deserved to be accepted. Thank you for your kind words regarding our daughter. She is blessed to have the options and opportunities she has, and is well aware of it. We’ve considered appealing, though I’m sure it would be a long shot. Sometimes it’s just the way the cookie crumbles. I just wish there was more transparency regarding the process. For the students with good stats who were rejected, sometimes it’s not enough to say “well it’s holistic.”
To add, she posted a picture of herself on decision day. It showed her crying with the caption reading “UF keeping me humble.” That’s the spirit lol!
Read through the comments on this forum. Specifically the ones of those OOS students accepted to UF class of 2023. In addition, search for other forums discussing the same topic.
Perhaps it did.
My DS graduating class is like 1300-1400. I think her high school is bigger than some universities
I’m so sorry for all of those who got painful decisions. Is it really true that OOS students have lower overall averages? It is not true at most other big state schools where OOS stats are usually higher. Now that Benacquisto helps with payment for OOS students too, UF seems like a great deal for OOS kids with high stats and for in state students too so it’s not surprising that they have to deny qualified candidates. I would be really curious about scores for in state vs OOS but a quick search didn’t turn up any info.
@mfd0513 That she is from such a small graduating class is very interesting. I have seen much speculation that UF compares kids to others in their school as part of its process. My kids go to a large public high school and the class is usually between 650-700. About 30-40 kids get accepted to UF each year, from what I can tell. And that number doesn’t change that much. When my son goes on his tour later this year, I plan to ask the admissions staff about how class size impacts things.
Also, rigor appears to be a big deal. There are lots of kids who take 10+ AP classes. I sometimes think that kids from schools that offer a lot of APs might have an advantage.
Was UF her first choice?
Exactly where are people seeing these lower stats for OOS kids? My daughter got in from OOS and some of these posts are very rude. She got deferred from one school that we felt was a good fit so I get the disappointment. But so far she’s gotten into FSU fall, Clemson EA with merit, Auburn Honors with merit, and a Pathways option at Georgia Tech. I think some here need to wait and see the data before assuming such things. Hope my daughter doesn’t read these posts because she is very happy at the moment. Is this the welcome she’ll get when she arrives? Jeez.
Rigor certainly comes into play. How rigorous is the schedule of the top students at your school compared to you. Selective admission isn’t just GPA and test scores. It’s a lot of factors. Comparing individual data points is counterintuitive to holistic/selective admissions.
I don’t see how rigor can come into play when some in my daughter’s high school got in with an SAT score 100 points below hers and WELL BELOW UF’s mid range, no AP classes (my daughter has 10), no leadership, etc. Yet they were accepted. I’m sorry, but no one can tell me they look at rigor. I honestly hope that just because someone may be a better writer, that the essay wouldn’t make or break a decision like that. That’s unacceptable to me, the entire process. If you are going to have them compete with the other students from their own school, which is how I’ve been told it’s done, at least level the playing field. How do I appeal? And UF and Florida should take a lesson from other states and take care of their own first. Sorry, this his how I feel. Most school hold OOS student’s to a higher standard than instate. Now these kids who live here their entire lives who are smart and talented are denied the opportunity to attend a top 10 school in their own state. It’s wrong.
I’m really puzzled why those instate who were denied are saying that Florida doesn’t take care of their own. OOS students only total about 12%. And yes some OOS students admitted will be below the middle 50% but some In-state students will also be below the middle 50%. ACT of 28-32 is the middle 50%. So there will be 25% with an ACT of 27 or below. So you will see many acceptances with a 26 or 27 and even a few even lower. You will also see many OOS high stats. My OOS daughter was accepted and is in the top 25% with stats and my son was accepted and is in the bottom 25%. Very different people and students but both presented a very strong application. Students are a lot more than stats and I’m glad that UF recognizes that.
I’m saying that because other states have a much higher range they accept for out of state students than instate. UF doesn’t. UF isn’t a private school It’s a public university. And to say that these students who got denied didn’t have it all is rude and incorrect. I’m referring to students who were denied who have the stats and everything else going for them. I know 2 personally, including my own. They had everything that should have gotten them accepted and I want someone to tell me why they weren’t. I cannot for the life of me figure it out and it’s frustrating.
It’s because everyone can’t be accepted. There are more applications than space available. Many students who had it all had to be denied. It’s the same at all highly ranked and desirable schools. UF is a world class university and not easy to get into. I realize it’s frustrating. My son and daughter were not accepted into every school they applied to.
I’m well aware that everyone can’t be accepted and I’m not saying that they should be accepted into every school they applied to. You are missing the entire point. If they are going to compare them to the other students in their high school then they shouldn’t accept students with SAT scores 100 points below those who they denied and well below UF range, with zero AP classes (the claim they look at rigor), no clubs or leadership (I am not making this up, I know these kids and have spoken to them). Something is not right. Obviously, it WAS easy for them to get into yet others who should have been admitted were not. Somethings wrong with the way they do things.
Unfortunately one will never know what was on someone else’s application that caught the attention of the admission reps. I know it’s a tough pill to swallow if your child was set on UF. I constantly stressed to my two to not get too attached or excited about any school until all decisions were in. It’s a rough process and I am glad I have two years before my youngest goes through this process.
It’s a grueling process!
Hey can someone convert an IB1 score of 33 and and IB predicted of 36 into UF gpa for me?