How many OOS students are accepted at UF?
Did they get back to you? We sent an email a few days ago but heard nothing 
Yes, but we contacted them a while ago. Before the admissions cycle began and they were less busy.
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Current freshman class is about 19% OOS/international from a presentation to the board of trustees earlier this year. From another presentation, OOS applicants are up again this year and getting closer to the number of in-state applicants (which is also up over the past 4 years). OOS yield is much lower than in-state yield. Iāve never seen a comparison of in-state admission rate to OOS. Ben Sasse said OOS avg SAT score was 1450 and in-state was 1420 in his recent WSJ op-Ed.
Just looked at slides from presentation at Decemberās board meeting. Looks like this year about 38K applications in-state and 29K OOS, which adds up to 67K+ overall by the priority deadline (last year they got about 7K more after priority deadline, donāt know the split of those). They historically admit about 15K and wind up with between 6k and 6.5k students.
Thanksā¦very helpful info
No, OOS students need higher stats because they are competing for fewer spots.
This is a common misconception about UF. They have no preference for in state vs OOS. One of the few state schools like this.
The Florida public university system is required to have 85% of incoming class in-state (across all schools). Many of those schools are >85% in-state, which gives others like UF and FSU the flexibility to dip below the 85% threshold. I agree there is not as significant a gap between stats for in-state vs OOS students (i.e. UNC Chapel Hill). However, the SAT ranges for OOS kids tend to be a bit higher.
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I think the main reason for the average being higher is that it is used as a target school by people who probably would get into UVA and UNC as low reaches. So they get in easily to UF and raise the SAT average. You probably can get in with a bit lower of a score OOS.
Hi. I saw you on the Austin board. Good luck!
Yeah, good luck!
I havenāt seen any data to support this claim on any presentation. No clear data refutes it either. Anecdotally, all the students from OOS whose stats I personally know who were admitted to and chose to attend UF this year had SATs higher than the 1450 reported average. But thatās a tiny number of students and I have no idea if they are representative. The existence of the grandparent tuition waiver is a big deal for some OOS families ā it makes total cost about 1/3 to 1/4 of schools like UMich and Uva, and awareness of this program is increasing rapidly. Even w/o it, UF cost is much lower ā which matters for many families (though Sasse seems to want to raise OOS tuition so we will see). The school has repeatedly asserted there is no difference one way or the other based on in-state/OOS. I take them at their word.
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Does anyone know if UF always releases decisions on a fixed date? Many colleges are releasing decisons sooner than they said they would. Sooner the better! Need to make some decisions. Thanks.
In our experience, they release decisions on time as previously stated. For this year, it will be on Friday, February 23.
On the positive side, you will receive a final decision: either accepted or denied (no deferrals).
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I agree, it was like 15 min early last year, but that was it.
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Lots of hard work, planning and coordination across campus for decision release day. I canāt imagine it being scrapped to release early.
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ngl, Iām nervous.
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Weāre really nervous too - wish we didnāt have to wait until the 23rd, lol. Weāre OOS so know itās very difficult to get accepted. Son goes to University of Miami and would be great to get my daughter to Florida as wellā¦then I could follow!
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I hope they release the decision earlier. They are later than most of the EA schools