Miami Admissions vs. UF

dvm258
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:54:43 +0000

For the record, I don’t really think admission rates count for anything when trying to determine how selective a university is. While applying last year, I’ve discovered colleges with very low admit rates actually can be pretty easy to get into. For example, USF has a 50% admit rate, but FIU’s is 47%. FIU simply isn’t as selective as USF, as many people here already know.

On the flipside, I’ve also seen colleges with very high admit rates can be more difficult, like the University of Illinois-Champaign, which publishes a 71% admit rate, but boasts high GPAs and ACT scores (mid 50% is 26-31, exactly like UF), and is even ranked higher than UF by US News.

As for the Miami v. UF debate, I think the whole private/public factor really comes into play here. Because Miami doesn’t have any in-state quotas to fill for each county, they’re free to admit whomever they like. Face it–it’s much easier for someone from a very rural Florida county to get into UF than someone from Broward, Dade, Palm Beach, Orange, and whatever two counties make up the Tampa Area (My west-coast geography is horrible).

This means, if you’re an in-state student, UF is much harder to get into. However, if you’re out of state, they’re on equal footing.