<p>Back when they had early decision, they offered it to Nat. Merit Scholars as nonbinding. You should be completely in.</p>
<p>I don’t know about quotas, but it does seem fair to compare an applicant to others from their school. Some schools pad grades like crazy and many students end up with high GPAs, whereas at another school the classes may be genuinely harder and the grades may be more spread out. It would be unfair for many of the students from the “easier” school to get accepted over the ones that may be just as worthy from the “harder” one.</p>
<p>UF has the highest enrollment of IB kids in the nation. Of course they’re partial.</p>