Let’s be positive and happy for the kids and families that were admitted to this great school OOS or instate. Everyone will find their perfect school.
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When I attended, there were a couple of core business courses (marketing and management) that were the 1990s style of online…they were replay classes with one live course and many sections of video replay courses…my husband said economics was like that too but I was in honors for that class and it was in person. Now when I see the course schedule I am taken aback by how much is asynchronous online. I understand that your student can go to the live class, but that only works if they do not have another course that interferes with that one time. It’s this online component of the business program that is something we will really talk about. I have students who graduated from South Carolina and Alabama and while they did choose an online class almost every semester, all their business classes (except maybe 1) were live/in person (although a couple were online synchronous) and even in the weed out larger freshmen/sophomore classes the live interaction was important to them in terms of peer socialization and professor relationship building. And like I said they absolutely like asynchronous flexibility but they say that was for the general eds (intro to art/mythology for ex) and not the core business courses.
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Maybe @Melissa96 can share some insight on what is happening with IA and why the changes after students applied
I don’t quite understand the big deal. There is the option to go to class which is a traditional lecture. It might be small sometimes, but that makes it really easy to interact with the professor. UF has options for how people want to do classes. You can do whatever you want.
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My daughter is OOS. Had a LOT of obstacles the past 4 years during and post-COVID transitioning to 3 different schools (military), death in the family, and major surgery followed by physical therapy for almost a year. Her GPA was only 3.65/4.03 but she got a 1500 SAT with 11 AP/IB classes and 5 Honors classes. Great extracurriculars and essays and UF was her top choice. I don’t think it was holistic at all. Anyone that actually read what she went thru and still denied her is pretty heartless IMO.
Has anyone in state receive merit yet? Do you know if they are still releasing scholarships? Other than Merit, any other recommended scholarships to apply for via UF?
My daughter received the grandparent waiver. There was no email for that, but it was listed in both her admissions portal and the One UF portal under Financial Aid. The Gator Portal from admissions will have something informing you if you received it or were waitlisted.
I’m not sure why you think the OOS kids have inferior stats and applications. UF recalculates the core GPA, and students are evaluated within the context of their schools.
Some Florida high schools use a 6.0 weighted GPA, for example. That GPA gets recalculated using UF’s weighting formula.
FWIW: my daughter is in fact in the “top top” of her class, 99th percentile ACT, etc., etc.
There were well over 60,000 EA applicants and over 90,000 if you include RD. Unfortunately, there are students who will be rejected or deferred.
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Thank you for posting this 
I’ll share as soon as I know. Originally, IA students could not take Fall classes or live on campus - the program was set up to alleviate some of the fall overcrowding - I’ve also seen students REALLY not do well in the initial Fall and manage to get themselves academically dismissed before they even start as a degree seeking student.
If we didn’t receive any merit aid, would it say “You currently have no aid package information available.” in the ONE.UF financial aid tab?
Thanks. I’ll have her check again. We checked yesterday and didn’t see anything except that it was submitted so maybe they haven’t gotten to all the applications yet
I don’t think anyone claimed that OOS had inferior stats. However, evidence of OOS students getting in with lower stats than in-state rejects or deferred is frustrating.
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OOS student space has been made at the expense of the Florida prep school applicants. Public schools have a higher yield than prep schools and UF assumes that prep school kids can pay private school tuition for college as well.
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There is more that goes into the process than stats. Maybe the person with slightly lower stats had word-class extracurriculars or wrote an incredible essay that really resonated with the admissions committee.
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My daughter received the grandparent waiver acceptance email to her email account. As a parent, we did not receive it.
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All of the students who applied early decision were emailed earlier letting them know that there will it be a non degree fall for IA and if the student is no longer interested in IA they can email to remove themselves from consideration.
Hi…have there been any changes/updates to UF not wanting Letters of Continued Interest or anything else for those who were deferred?
They want nothing.