Official Florida State University Admission Decisions Thread-Feb.20 Notification date

<p>My computer won’t let me copy & paste…grrr.</p>

<p>Deferred.</p>

<p>SAT: Old score - Dec 2007 (what they received) 1520/2400. M: 440 CR: 580 W: 500 Essay: 8/12.
New score - Jan 2008 (what they’ll reconsider) 1710/2400 M:490 CR: 590 W: 630 Essay: 10/12</p>

<p>GPA: 3.537 UW, 3.67 W, 4.0 for this year</p>

<p>Rank: 1/65</p>

<p>Essays: Biased, but amazing</p>

<p>Recs - Amazing. One from principal, assistant principal, teacher.</p>

<p>Hook - URM, haven’t completed a full year of school since 7th grade, self-taught myself 4 years of high school in less than one year (senior year)</p>

<p>State: Florida</p>

<p>School: Public/Charter</p>

<p>Ethnicity: African-American</p>

<p>Gender: Female</p>

<p>Major strengths/weakness - strengths: decent GPA, good essay, upward trend, scored higher on the SAT than the national average high schooler with only one and a half years of actual school, completely changed my life around senior year. Weakness - poor SAT math score</p>

<p>Why I was deferred - SAT math score didn’t meet minimum requirements</p>