Latest Unofficial FSU Admissions Stats

ABCB7099
Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:20:02 +0000

As a current UF freshman, I can only talk about my experiences in a Florida high school about the way people saw different colleges.

In general, the spectacular all As all 4 years, graduate in the top 5, stop at nothing (even - or is it especially? cheating) to get ahead people looked to the standard Ivy league, Stanford, MIT type places.

After that, it was the upper portion of the class all looking to UF, and then everyone else who was looking to stay in Florida either looked at UCF/USF/FSU. Almost everyone applied to UF, so it wasn’t by choice that they did that. I can say with definite security that only 3 people (out of a class of 138) chose one of the other state schools over UF. All 3 were music/drama majors.

It’d be nice if a school could catch up to at least near where UF is right now (UF isn’t a top 25 or top 10 school, but it is definitely up there with UNC/Penn State, so I’m talking about a decently high nationally ranked school) because quite frankly there are more than 6000 very bright graduating seniors in Florida each year. As an unbiased observer, and yes I am that - school sports rivalries have nothing to do with academics, it looks like UCF is doing more than FSU right now to boost themselves higher. Even USF is doing a lot to boost their research departements.