I believe it was stated here not to sign the housing agreement unless you have accepted admissions and intend to enroll at UF. Which to me only makes sense. I may be wrong but I believe that’s what I’ve read.
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Besides the $25 deposit, is there other $$ attached to the housing contract before committing. I recall from last year thread, there was a $225 fee associated with it.
All that is stated in the housing agreement.
The State of Florida keeps a huge amount of its top students in-state because of the Bright Futures scholarship. It is hard to turn down no tuition for a Top 30 school compared to paying 300K - 350K for a comparable out of state option. Florida is the 3rd largest state. UF is the only in-state option in the US News Top 50. They are turning away a lot of straight A applicants.
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Nope
They always had the November deadline to get a decision usually the last week of February.
Then anyone that applied after the November deadline received their decisions in March
They still have a very similar deadline
However, this is the first year they moved up decisions to January and the first year of deferrals
Applications filed after the November deadline still find out in March along with Deferrals and IA, PACE and a few other options that in prior years would of found out in February if they completed their App by the November deadline
Just a WAG but last years freshman class was overenrolled plus FSU going to an EA application format may have played a role in the switch this year and offering the deferrals
It’s different. Last year, post-November was space avaliable (single digit spots were left). Now, it is regular decision and there is a viable chance to be admitted.
That’s probably me. There are a lot of fundamental problems with going by class rank. In Texas the problem starts with the fact that there are over 400,000 Grads in Texas per year and thus they could fill their entire class 2 times over even at Top 5%. The other bigger problem is the disparity in quality of HS is drastic with a large amount of schools that are barely graduating 10% who are considered minimally college ready and the Top 100 or so HS’s that are highly competitive with 90% plus kids going to college. When you look at the Top 20 or so HS’s in Texas the kids in the Top 5% are often getting into Ivies or Ivy Plus schools. My son’s school has at least one or two kids per year that are NM Semifinalists that aren’t even in the Top 25%.
You simply can’t take a school like that and consider it the same as one where you have Top 10% kids with less than 1000 on their SAT and never taken an AP or Dual Credit class and if you put them in the same classes in college the wolf will eat the sheep. Certainly you should give a boost to kids from under resourced schools and provide as much support as you can but just looking at Class Rank at schools like A&M and Texas (or UF or UNC or Georgia Tech) is not going to end well for those kids but they would likely do very well at a school they are academically prepared for.
Class Rank has value but it simply doesn’t work as the only measurement of success in large and growing states like Texas or Florida. FWIW I think Georgia and North Carolina have the fairest and best systems but UF is definitely better than Texas and A&M in terms of how they administer admissions. You need to account at least somewhat for GPA, Rigor, and SAT for instance to have a real picture of what you are looking at.
I could go on for a while and list all the problems with Top 10% which manages to end up hurting school rankings and pushing away top performing students while also ensuring those who it is designed to help are often walking into a school they simply aren’t prepared for. Math just doesn’t care.
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I’m not saying you are wrong at all. My point was just that people in Florida want to do it the way Texas does it, and people in Texas want to do it the way Florida does it.
In huge states like Texas and Florida, there is just no way to accommodate all of the smart kids into one or two flagship universities.
Can someone provide a list of required general courses every student need to take? What APs and CLEP exams satisfy the requirements?
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Totally understand, my point is just coming from someone who has had 2 kids go through it in Texas and have a son who has applied to UF, GT, and NC State/UNC OOS and taken a lot of interest in the process.
Top 5/6/10% rules sound great on the surface but they have huge problems if implemented and I hope UF doesn’t go down that path.
There is no one list, since there are many options to complete gen eds.
When will UF let us know if we have received any Scholarships?
Merit scholarships should be out in another week or so.
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Hey everyone, is the appeals process worth it? I know on the admission’s page they said that it can be done only with new or compelling information. I got denied with a 33 act, 4.0 UW, 4.5 W, with EC activities in Student Government and leading a community campaign to raise over $13,000 for my community. This Spring, I graduate from High School at 16 with an Associates degree. On the common app, because of my age, I could only fill out EC’s for my 9th and 10th grade year. Could this be enough reason to appeal or would it be better to submit a transfer application?
When I asked admissions they said after RD decisions on March 14th. Is that just what they’re supposed to say?
@Melissa96 does residency play a part in merit scholarships this year?
Financial Aide is going out then but Merit will be sooner
it does in the sense that out of state is a tuition waiver for part of the out of state fees.
My kid received some scholarship with the acceptance letter. Is the merit you mentioned a different one than what we got?
Merit is different than the Honors Scholarship.