@NewYorker404 I was replying to @ClarinetDad16 's question about NMF and Vals…however…
To your question about the President. Several times he’s stated in presentations around the state, that he would like to increase UF’s geographical diversity. The Fall 2014 class was 8% OOS (an another 4% international). He’s been very careful to state it in terms of diversity and not in terms of revenue (by increasing OOS tuition). I get the sense he’s laying out the ground work for the initiative, before he starts. He hasn’t set a target (and I think he wants to avoid targets).
They have started by hiring additional regional recruiters, mostly in the Midwest. Nothing about increasing scholarships yet, has been publicly discussed.
The admissions point to take from all of this, is that UF want’s to increase it’s current % of OOS students, and is likely to treat OOS students equally with in-state students for admissions. Unlike schools like UVa and Michigan, you don’t need significantly higher stats than in-state students to be accepted.
Back to UF and Vals (in-state)…
The State of Florida has close to 1,000 high schools. Below is a list of Florida NMF by school district and high school.
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/35/urlt/NatlMeritProgram.pdf
You’ll notice that only a few hundred schools generated a NMF, and many of these schools generated 10, 20 or more (many only generated 1). For example, Duval County has 19 high schools, but only 7 generated NMF’s. This leads me to believe that many of the in-state Vals are not NMF. I would think UF gets a few hundred in-state Vals a year (out of 6,500 freshman they enroll). What UF really pulls in is the top 10% (72% of the class).
Final note, with the new in-state FIS scholarship (COA scholarship for NMF), UF is likely back to pulling in a large number of in-state NMFs.