Did anyone here also receive direct admission to a business school? How does the business school at the University of Florida (UF) compare? DSngot direct admission to business schools at Kelley (out-of-state), VT (in-state), UF (out-of-state), and UVA (which does not offer direct admission to its business program. It’s a separate admission process in 2nd year). These options are arranged in ascending order based on the cost of attendance after scholarships.
Bright Futures (merit based with very simple qualifiers) is funded by the Florida Lottery and it pays up to 100% of tuition and fees. UF say 93% of incoming in-state UF freshmen receive Bright Futures. Most are likely at that 100% tier.
The lottery pays out around 25% of every dollar it takes in to fund our public schools and universities in Florida.
It’s delightful.
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Transfer students are only admitted as juniors so they do not need the prerequisites and gen ed classes that first year students take.
Is it really only 10% out of state get admitted in Florida? If so, then I cannot believe someone was making an issue out of this.
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Back in 2013, the government in Florida designated UF and FSU as the two preeminent universities in Florida. As I said earlier, they are both really great schools and our child is honored to be admitted to both.
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. Now that was good material. I would admit you to either UF or FSU, with a scholarship, with that level of thinking.
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But the amount the legislature allows at least UF to charge and thus what Bright Futures reimburses (I don’t know about others) is less than the university’s cost per student, according to what the admin has said. UF lobbies for extensive additional funds/subsidies every legislative session, from what I’ve seen. Without that additional funding, as I understand it, the university would at the very least have to significantly reduce its costs (for example, in the last five years they’ve greatly expanded their faculty while holding overall size the same to reduce class sizes in part).
Do you know how “what the universities need” is defined? How they come up with the denominator in that 25%?
According to presentations and the common data set, it’s been 15-20% OOS/international admitted to the first year class in the most recent years. But I assume bc/o transfers, the overall university population is closer to 10%, maybe 15% OOS.
What matters in the makeup of the actual student body. As you mention, 10.06% of the current undergrad population is made up of OOS students. Pretty reasonable.
Thanks for the info. So that percentage is still pretty low. Again, we now live in a society where it’s just easy to blame others when something doesn’t work the way you want it to work. You don’t get into a school because you don’t have the qualifications according to the school, but it’s the legislature‘s fault.
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Not all 4.0 GPA’s are the same
Student #1, 3.8 GPA started taking High School Classes in Middle School
Graduated with an AICE or IB diploma plus took Honors, AP’s and DE classes. Top 10% of class
Student #2, same school 4.0 GPA took a few Honor classes and couple AP classes, ranked 20th-25th percentile in class.
Who gets into UF?
Student #1 the mostly A some B student or student #2 the straight A student
Without even knowing what classes they took just based on class rank we know student #1 had a more rigorous schedule.
If a straight A, 4.0 student is 20 -25th percentile the only way anyone can have a higher weighted GPA and therefore a higher class rank is by taking a more rigorous schedule Honors, AP, AICE, IB, DE.
So in this scenario a full 20 to 25% of the graduating class had a higher weighted GPA. The only way for this to happen is by taking more rigorous classes, ie Honors or college level.
I know there are other factors in admissions but just addressing the 4.0
From what I’ve seen last few years, just an outsiders observation, is that UF wants high Stat kids that challenge themself taking rigorous tracks, but that are also well rounded high character kids, shown by EC and volunteering or work and what they write in the essay.
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When would we find out campus visiting days for accepted students? Will we receive email for it to sign up? Thank you!
I believe the email is going out later this week.
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This is true, but i’ll add the requirment is to enroll only 10% max for the entire state universtiy system. It’s not for each universtiy specifically, so UF can and does go a bit over because the other universitys help “pick up the slack.” Also, they likely admit more a seemingly high amount of OOS, because they don’t yield as much.
top 10% except for UT Austin which is top 6%
Plus they guarantee admission to only a few majors
UF if your in you can have any major that doesn’t require an audition
I just finally recieved the gatorlink set up email that I’ve been trying to set up for weeks to see if I got in early.
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Is there any chance my housing priority date moves up a little bit as the people who paid the 25 and were not admitted are removed? Thanks!
Is my spot on the housing line still secured if I do not commit immediately? I am waiting to see all my financial offers before I put down a depsoit
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What I did is click yes in the form to say I will be enrolling. It’s like a 99.9% chance unless I get a full ride or something elsewhere. However, the deposit is a different step, and I did not do that part yet, because I think it’s against the rules to put down a deposit without withdrawing all other applications.
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UF FTIC total applicants 66,866
UF FTIC total Admits 12,742
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Its either 19% or 23% if summer is included in the 12742 or not