Their application opened later than most schools though.
I see. Donāt remember the application deadline for UF. Thought all ED/EAs are on November 1st, RDs are around New Yearās day. I submitted all my applications (ED, EAs, RDs) in October.
UF hasnāt had early action in a long time. Our pools are just: priority and space available. I donāt know if it makes you feel better or worse but Iām on both sides of the equation this year. Although for declarative purposes I should say I have had nothing to do with Alachua County students since I know so many students having a senior this year. Under 3 weeks to go.
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Itās not EA, they call it priority decision, itās more like RD, so in that case itās early. All RD schools my daughter applied to donāt release decisions until the end of March!
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Thanks, yes it makes sense now
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Anyone know if merit scholarships are given at the time of admission?
I believe it is about two weeks later. But others may know for certain.
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Thank you!
It was a couple weeks later last year. I canāt remember exactly how much later, but not that much ā you could figure it out from the class of 2027 thread. Honors and research program scholarship (Iām forgetting the exact name/acronym) come with your acceptance email. OOS merit awards come a couple weeks later. I donāt know if in-state is the same (the National Merit award for in-state students for instance?). I think we were also notified that we were on the WL for the grandparent OOS tuition waiver with the acceptance (or it was available in the portal somewhere almost immediately); that updated after that, depending on when you got your application in.
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I noticed that UF hasnāt looked at the updated SRAR for hs 1st semester, is that typical?
They never use S1 grades in their review and they will only download the SSAR once for each applicant the first time unless you email them to ask them to download again due to an error or something.
So does it matter that I did not update my SRAR with 1st semester grades? Neither UCF or FSU asked for it, so I assumed UF also didnāt.
I wish the notification date was much sooner. My son really wants to go here and the wait is killing us. Good luck to all when decisions are released on 2/23
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I donāt know the answer to this question. But by the time most students receirve their S1 grades, their application may have already been reviewed. @Melissa96 may be able to answer this.
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Interesting. Thank you!
UF only uses mid year grades for 3 year grads (because they have less credit overall to review). When it comes to finalizing, we expect senior year grades to be very similar to those already earned in the first 3 years.
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Thanks for the clear answer. In the case of my D24, her 1st semester was really good, so I was just hoping they would count 
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If Iām reading that right, thatās a huge jump from last yearās 55k by the priority deadline?
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That number does include people who submitted, but did not finish. From what I have heard, they lose a somewhat significant number because people either submit not knowing UF requires test or submit and never fill our the SSAR. It also does not include people who pull out because they no longer want to go or get in ED somewhere else. UF does have an early deadline, so a lot of people might cancel because they have not heard from their ED yet when they apply. Because of this, and other improvments they are doing to be able to increase class sizes, I donāt think the acceptance rate will be drastically different compared to last year.
It was about 7K more than submitted last year by the priority deadline, so about a 10% increase.
Last year about an additional 7K submitted/completed after the priority deadline according to the slides I saw; I would assume the same this year but I donāt know. If thatās right, it wd be about 75k applicants total this year. But weāll hear the final numbers soon enough!