<p>AL 34, UF is a state supported land grant school, and the state of Florida requires its public universities to give preference to Florida residents.</p>
<p>In fact, at a minimum, 90 percent of Florida’s public university enrollment must be composed of Florida residents. This figure holds for the entire system Any one school in the system can exceed the 10 percent mark, but the system as a whole must not exceed 10 percent nonresidents.</p>
<p>At the University of Florida in Gainesville, where Florida residents made up 93.9 percent of the undergraduate enrollment for 2006, the freshman class has had out-of-state representation drop in the last few years. See below. site. And while admission to UF has gotten particularly competitive in recent years, it’s not because out-of-state residents are taking the place of Floridians. </p>
<p>From the UF common data set as listed on their site:
2007: % of incoming freshman who are from out of state (excludes international/nonresident aliens) 5%</p>
<p>2006 6.2%</p>
<p>2005 7.2%</p>
<p>2004 9.1%</p>
<p>2003 8.2%</p>
<p>[Office</a> of Institutional Planning and Research - Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.ir.ufl.edu/data.htm]Office”>Office of Institutional Planning and Research - Common Data Set)</p>