@Lat8erGator1 - I don’t know how UF can be held responsible for students that don’t apply. There is only so much they can do and forcing students to submit an application isn’t an option. Perhaps the responsibility lies within the local school districts that don’t, or can’t, prepare their students for a rigorous academic environment like UF strives to offer. Compromising a merit based education system to accommodate people who don’t meet the standards for admissions isn’t the answer. That only punishes those who made the commitment and delivered the necessary results - and those in the private sector who hire these students after graduation.
There are all sorts of people and institutions that can be held accountable for the alleged inequities you’re seeing, but UF would be way, way down the list.