@gold523 yes we are in the same boat as far as weighted gpa - my son is at a 4.7 and has maxed out the APs at his school and actually took extras on line - but his UF GPA is dragged down by the fact that all classes for freshman and soph year are maxed out as honors level and even spanish 3 and 4 are honors only - one and 2 are completely unweighted! No option for honors. He took the minimum allowable unweighted classes too. LOL so it is what it is. We don’t have an ib program and nobody is allowed to take dual enrollment until Jr year and you are forced to take a college readiness dual enrollment class as your first one as part of the program requirements - such a waste. So not much time to do many of those. They offer a few at the school but only one that doesn’t have an AP equiv. so senior year you have to go off campus to take any others and that proves very difficult if not impossible to schedule with their required 4 classes on campus… at least if you want to get your APs in LOL. We are lucky to have Florida Virtual school to augment his schedule when he can’t get the classes he wants to all fit into his campus schedule or they aren’t offered at his school… like AP Macro. I have a friend whose daughter is applying to UF from Maryland and their school doesn’t pay for AP testing. So most kids graduate with only a few APs. Our school pays so many top kids have at least 9 or 10. That’s why I think they somehow have to look at you in the context of others applying from your class…though it doesn’t seem fair if your class is very competitive to just take fewer great kids in favor of less competitive kids elsewhere but I’m sure they have a science to it that they feel works after all these years… we just have to trust the system I guess…right now I’m putting my faith in my double crossed fingers and my both my kids swear by Zaxbys. They eat it before every major exam and both my daughter and her best friend (who was very nervous also about UF) brought their laptops to Zaxby’s and logged on to get their decisions there after eating their traditional chicken finger meal lol. Desperate times call for desperate measures I suppose… all I know is it worked!!!
I’ll be at Zaxby’s for dinner Friday night at 530pm LOL taking no chances lol.