When will we hear about financial aid offers and the total cost of attending? Thinking by the end of the month but not sure if anyone else has heard anything.
No, if we were considering the student for admission but couldnāt admit them EA then they were deferred not denied. There isnāt a need to wait until regular decision if the student wants to try for an earlier answer.
Yes, financial aid offers will be out by the end of the month.
Will there be more merit scholarship coming out soon for intl rd?
Thank you, Melissa96! Can we assume that from here on out, waivers will be granted as they become available or will they do it in batches? I assume biggest movement after the May 1 commitment date. Thank you.
Yes, when we have some to give we will send them out
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I believe that if the grandparent waiver comes through at some point, you will receive the higher of the two offers (the grandparent waiver) and not be able to stack the grandparent waiver with the $6,000 OOS scholarship because the latter is also a waiver against OOS tuition.
Yes and Iād be happy to make that swap!
So I forgot to upload proof of relation to grandparent for the waiver, would I still be able to upload this provided I have all other docs in order or is it too late atp?
@Melissa96 Hello! Just wanted to verify what I was seeing earlier in the thread. Should I not send a LOCI as a waitlisted student with application updates? As in it would serve no purpose or even lower chances of getting admitted? thanks
Aside from confirming wanting to be on the waitlist anything else would serve no purpose.
I am considering University of Florida for CS. It appears that UF doesnāt directly admit to CS and certain requirements may need to be met. Iām ok with that, but want to make sure that as long as I meet those requirements I will get the CS major?
It is not another application/selection process Iāll have to go through, correct? TIA!
Unless something just changed, I donāt think this is correct.
At UF, major isnāt considered in making admissions decisions for traditional enrollment, students can declare their major at preview and then then need to follow the tracking requirements to stay in the major.
Thank you, I understand that means if I chose to go with UF, I only need to make sure that I donāt get kicked out of my major/school for not meeting track requirements.
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Hi again! With the announcement that Florida may amend the Grandparent waiver, do you have any info on whether this will impact the currently admitted students? Or a timeline for when the new requirement might take effect? I am thankful my parents have lived in Florida a long time, but I was just wondering.
No idea currently - when the legislature is in session lots of things are proposed.
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Just because I always post these, the Board of Trustees met today and there were some slides about admissions. You can view the whole presentation HERE (day 1, morning, starting at minute 2:29).
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It will be interesting to see how these admit numbers line up with their student yield for enrollment numbers.
As parents with kids who are enrolled in Magnet High Schools where 1/3 to 1/2 of students are considered high performing - we are also being advised to have our kids apply to anywhere from 15-20+ schools, with around 1/4+ as Reach, 1/2+ as Target, and 1/4- as āsafetyā schools.
To us, this seems to suggest thereās going to be a lot of students in the high performing group (but perhaps not elite level) which are encouraged to apply to 10-15+ schools in the 10-30 (maybe T40) tierā¦indicating a lot more overlapping on applications as well as admissions offers may go on.
As high performing students determine their priorities via general rankings, college/major rankings, COA, Geographic/Climate/Campus or overall āVibe/Fitā, and pick to attend the 1 out of 8 or 10 or 12 or 15 schools theyāve been admitted to, I suspect the differential between āAdmitted Studentsā metrics and āEnrolled Studentā metrics will have a divergence which increases the farther the school is from the ātop rankingsā or as the relative class size increases. Which is to say to other parents and to kids, when looking at numbers its important to understand what they actually mean and donāt write yourself out of contention in applying just because you donāt hit the mid range of admitted students from the prior yearā¦look at the range of range of the students which actually enrolled.
That said, UF is a comparative bargain in terms of COA for OOS as well so Iād guess that will have some influence on the high performing students who got in to multiple schools in the same ranking cohort, but the schools are not in the same COA range.
In recent years, overall yield has been in the mid- to low 40% range from what I remember, declining slightly as the number of OOS applicants has increased dramatically. In-state yield is very high. OOS has been lower but that could change.