Yes! Shoutout to the “directional” schools! I’ve got a full ride to UNF plus Honors College there. Is it as prestigious as my other options like FSU? No, but I prefer the small classroom environment and finances are a huge thing. At the end of the day, I’ll have a degree and that’s what matters
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Yep. Absolutely nothing wrong with going to UNF or any of the other Florida publics even if some people on here believe only UF is the only good campus in the state worth attending. That way of thinking could not be further from the truth and is quite unfortunate.
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In another post, you mention that the student previously attended high schools in CO (and TX?) where courses were not marked as honors or some such.
UF recalculates HS GPA with +0.5 for honors and +1.0 for AP, IB, AICE. If the student got no weighting points (due to the CO and TX courses not being marked as honors (or otherwise not weighted by UF) and therefore had “only” a 4.0 HS GPA in the UF recalculation, he would be far below the middle 50% admit range of 4.4-4.6.
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For those that are waiting - Grandparent Waiver decisions are now on the status page with an email scheduled to go this evening with more information.
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Fight & protest the system. In the meantime, one should also assume that your son’s appeal request will not be granted. Therefore, you should also focus on the schools where he DID get accepted. Like somebody else said earlier, love the school that loves you back.
Besides, there’s another student further up this thread who is a National Merit Finalist who got accepted, but to the PaCE program, which basically requires you to be an online student for 2 yr before you attend on campus in person.
And based on how online instruction went for people 4 yr ago during the pandemic, a lot of students wouldn’t necessarily be eager to sign up for 2 yr of online classes before you can even show up in person at UF.
Your kid sounds like the kind of student who would grow wherever he’s planted. If UF the only school he applied to? Where else did he apply?
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Thank you for this article. I appreciate responses like this that are solely informational in nature and intended to assist and not offend or incite strong emotions during this sensitive time.
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Hi Melissa, if it says “Grandparent Waiver Approved”, does that mean we got it? Thanks!
Yes, Kelley at Indiana as well as U of Arizona and Arizona State. Kelley is pretty high up there (#8) and UF (#29) are a match with the Arizona schools. I’m delving more deeply into the business schools- waiting on Cal Berkeley and Columbia. At the end of the day- the decision will come down to $$ and reputation of business school using many of the research tools provided by others on this feed.
Congrats
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Congrats. Can you tell me when you applied?
September
For my son, it says “Grandparent Waiver Approved” also. We applied 8/24. I know he’s going to be ecstatic. UF is his number one choice. He was born in Miami Shores and attended grade school there.
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Does anyone know if OOS students qualify for the first gen scolarship?
Grandparent waiver!
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Congrats! Jealous here, but we didn’t apply until November. I think they only give out a few, so that is fantastic for anyone who gets it!
Do you know where you are on the waitlist?
FYI, DS applied in November last year and did get the Grandparent waiver immediately after he committed; it was the first few days of May. I assume some became available then bc students who had been awarded decided to go elsewhere. My guess is that it will be harder this year, but you never know!
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We never knew where he was on the WL and could not find out. Even went in person during admitted students days in April to try to sweetly finagle the info. No luck.
Thank you, that is good to know. The status just says “Grandparent Waiver Waitlisted” and doesn’t give a spot/number. Not getting it won’t be the deciding factor in my son’s decision, but the in-state tuition would be a big push! My husband and I went to UF with the 1990s version of Florida’s Bright Scholars program and the in-state tuition can’t be beat!
Yeah, we really wanted to know beforehand, but it didn’t happen. He thus decided right before the deadline. He had a small OOS merit tuition waiver, but nothing close to the value of the full grandparent waiver (they switch you off the merit waiver if you get the grandparent one). It was such awesome news to get the waiver after the decision!
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