My daughter’s guidance counselor at her school. Our HS typically sends 1-2 to FSU or UF per year. Just what she is hearing. I have no idea if that counselor is reliable or not but I have no reason not to believe her. But this is anecdotal, I have no direct knowledge. So take it as rumor mill.
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It will probably be up a little bit if I had to guess, maybe in the 32 range. I don’t think they 1500 thing is real, it is likely overblown. My counselor says that a lot of the places where they communicate (basically online forums like this) take the word of one counselor and believe that the results of one school will be representative of the entire population, when they almost certainly will not be.
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Thanks for clarifying. I am thinking d24’s 31 / 4.4 falls short… Maybe she should have applied for summer instead of fall.
31 was well within the range for EA stats, so it might be ok if FSU is like UF in the fact that they don’t make it harder to get in OOS.
Did FSU release the overall stats for EA the day before or the day of. I really would like to see that data.
It was the day of IIRC. btw you’re the rare student who posts here on cc, and you’re in most of the same school threads as my d24. What’s your top choice?
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UF is my top choice. I just applied to FSU in case that does not work out. I also have UCF (admitted) as a back up for the back up if FSU does not work out tomorrow. I applied to so many other schools out side of this to see if I could pick up any great merit aid, but that has not really been working out for me lol.
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My daughter’s CLT, ACT, and SAT scores are at the low end of the 25-75 range, so we are expecting a rejection, but remain hopeful. My daughter applied as a Spanish major (she is a bit of a whiz-bang at spanish and is completely fluid and has a bilingual certificate from our state) so maybe that will sway it a little?
Same… UTK merit aid was pretty good, but not much from the rest. Even with no Merit, FSU is the same price as our instate flagship. If merit/need isn’t a factor, FSU is one of the top bargains in the country.
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FSU and UF are highly competitive state schools in a highly populated state with an enormous amount of in state applicants who are very much highly qualified. A lot of these kids get turned away in state and it’s devastating to these qualified kids and families. Those in state students should be the top priority for our state schools and should be protected by our state laws, much like NC protects their flagship school and in state students. FL also needs to eliminate the grandparents in OOS tuition waiver. UF and FSU can most likely fill their entire classes with in state students and not skip a beat. It has become like the CA state schools in FL
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All Florida publics are. It’s amazing.
Typically it’s in the morning of the day of the release, based on last year’s experience.
Congratulations! My daughter did get into USF. UCF is excellent. Really, all of the Florida publics are excellent. It’s the new California system.
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I agree to a point. But there needs to be places for people to go who live in a state with no or only one good flagship university.
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Agree, but it’s a tough balance and I can appreciate both perspectives. We have a house in Florida, but are residents of another state. Our resident state flagship is… well… horrible, and one of the lowest ranked flagships out of the 50 states.
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There’s the other situation of a state’s flagship being quite good but rejecting a very qualified student.
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FSU admissions are holistic for sure. Else there is no way S23 would have been admitted as an OOS student last year with 3.56 UW / 3.61W /1420 SAT, based on stats alone. He is now a freshman at FSU. Also, I am not aware of a drastic increase in the number of applications at FSU this year, like what happened at Rutgers that would suddenly change the admit rate.
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They are protected. State residents must make up 90% of the students enrolled. That is across the entire state system. FSU and UF are typically 85% in state, with the other schools above 90%
Yeah. That’s why UF and FSU can admit as many qualified OOS students as they want. The other universitys in the system pick up the slack for them. Plus they need OOS because no way the university can survive on the 6,000 dollar tuition for in state.
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Laughable to think the FL state university system couldn’t survive without OOS paying tuition. You can’t be serious.