<p>UF, like any other institution, has enrollment goals for different purposes if you will and some criteria they have to meet as a public institution by law. </p>
<p>For example, UF has a nationally ranked football team which might translate in rejecting unathletic nerds with 1400s, unless they obviously find football players with 1400s. Something worth mentioning is that the Stats posted on the UF admissions website are those of ADMITTED student, not the ones actually enrolled. </p>
<p>UF, I would assume, has some slightly flexible quotas on the number of people they can accept from each school or district. They simply can not accept all qualified candidates from District X and only 10% of the qualified candidates from District Y. </p>
<p>Another reason why you may probably get rejected, especially at places like harvard, is if they feel like you were too pampered or someone else took charge of your education (i.e. parents). I know people that were in the IB program just because their parents wanted them to be in it.</p>
<p>Everyone admitted at UF can be something different to the campus. In addition, UF can not admit every single overachiever. Even at Harvard, there is a bottom 25% of their graduating class. Furthermore, those who were rejected by UF who had great stats, I’m sure could have been/were accepted to other great universities.</p>