The Admissions Honors Scholarship is $2000 total, $500/ semester for 4 semesters.
“Admissions Honors Scholarship, a cumulative tuition waiver of $2,000. You will receive $500 each Fall and Spring term in a resident tuition waiver for two consecutive years, or four terms”
“Students must join the Freshman Honors Program to be initially eligible and complete the program requirements in order to renew the Admissions Honors Scholarship for their second year.”
I hear you! We have not seen UF, FSU, and UCF and can’t imagine picking a school site unseen. If the visit events get cancelled, we plan to go as long as the airline flies there people are allowed on campus. If those two things are not possible, then maybe late April before the enrollment deadline?
I was admitted to UF oos. 32 ACT, all As on UF gpa, great ECs, 8 APs up to junior year
OOS, No notice of scholarship as yet, does anyone know if they are still rolling them out? 1470 SAT
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OOS as well and have not heard anything yet. 1460 sat
All of the merit scholarship notifications went out earlier today.
From what I understand the NMF and Benacquisto scholarships have not been posted. Has anyone received these?
When/how do we get roomsync info
Son has not received anyinformation about scholarships today. Guess that means UF has helped narrow his choices to FSU and Clemson. Was keeping my fingers crossed but he will land some where good.
1600 SAT, 800 on Math II/Chem, 5s on 10/10 APs, 4.0 GPA, 5 on AIME. Really into math and art history. I also got into the URSP (with the $2,000 scholarship, in addition to the $40,000 from the platinum scholarship). In state. My honors essay were kinda eh not going to lie, I wrote them in like… one night lol. But I think my grades and scores really did it. One other student from my school (at least so far) also got platinum. He had a 36 ACT, top 5 GPA, ISEF finalist and stuff like that. Overall, it seems to be extremely score/grades focused (although I do know someone with a 36 that got into MIT but didn’t get into URSP, let alone the scholarship).
Got the gator nation scholarship. I’m so happy!
@twinmommy I called about the Benacquisto and was told that we would hear about those next week…but only if the student has already listed UF as first choice with NMF corp. This was surprising to me, as FSU awarded Benacqusito up front, at the time of admission, noting the proviso that my D has to be NMF (at the time she was still NMSF). I am kind of disappointed in the way this is being handled by UF. It was really exciting to see the FSU admission letter and scholarship offer at the same time.
Son got financial aid stuff on portal. No merit, no aid? I’m guessing that nothing else will be worthcoming? Basically , here, you can pay us $25K and you can borrow the rest. He’d be in top 10% of their accepted students. Yeesh, good thing this school was not up there on the list.
@college130 Are you out of state? Have you found other similarly ranked public universities to be more generous with merit aid? What were his offers with those?
Yes, OOS. More generous would imply some level of generosity to start with 
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He did not get in Chapel or UVA, which were crapshoots for OOS anyway. Pitt and UofSC Honors College have offered very generous packages, very close to full tuition and UofSC is all merit. UGA are expecting substantial aid as well, as we received same for my daughter last year with slightly lower stats. Coouple others still await packages. On the private side, Northeastern, Villanova, Tulane and Miami have all offered enough to make them substantially less than UF. We’re waiting on aid from Cornell (he rec’d likely letter last week), and waiting on decisions from Duke and Upenn (not overly optimistic on either, but never know). It’s just hard to understand the whole process, and a lot of it just doesn’t make a lot of sense, but we’re okay with it. It’s why I encouraged him to apply to as many schools as he wanted. It’s a lot of work, but in the end you just don’t know what you will end up with. I learned that last time around. It’s just hard to believe that any OOS kid with Ivy level numbers would pay full freight to go to UF. We had not visited, were planning to, but no point in that now. He really applied only at the recommendation of his guidance counselor, so no big loss.
Who knows, maybe just something they did not like about his app or his essay or who knows. In any event, onward and upward! Just want him to find a happy home for the next 4 years, get a good education, and not push my retirement back by 5 years!! Not letting him borrow anything beyond dubsidized gov’t. Good luck!
@college130 I think that state schools are less generous with merit aid in general, especially to out of state students. UVA and UNC are a little more generous than UF, but they heavily rely on OOS students for raising their stats and as a % of admittance. UF and other Florida state universities have great aid to National Merit Finalists and UF has a relatively small amount of other scholarships for OOS that are not NMF. But otherwise, they don’t subsidize a lot of OOS students.
I think that many of us in Florida do not recognize that UF’s very strong reputation in our state is not yet shared around the country. I think that your comment about an Ivy League caliber student paying full freight at UF reflects that. You son was not accepted to UVA or UNC, but you are surprised that UF is not offering a lot of money to lure him like other state schools are. Rankings reflect that UF is not far behind UNC and UVA, is equal to Georgia Tech and way ahead of schools like South Carolina and Georgia. So it is not surprising to me that he did not receive merit from UF. I say this not to put you or your son down, I hope it does not come across that way. My point is to the wider audience that UF’s reputation around the country is not on par with its peers in the rankings and I see your comments as an example. UF needs to work on selling the brand outside of Florida.
We are in-state in Florida, and, yes, UF gets a tremendous number of outstanding kids with Ivy-caliber grades and scores (not necessarily that many with Ivy-caliber ECs, though there are some of course). I would bet that in absolute numbers there are more extremely high GPA/extremely high SAT kids at UF than at Harvard.
It is not easy to get substantial merit aid even in state, as Bright Futures and the Benacquisto program mean that a large percentage of in state UF students pay no tuition at all, and many get full rides. I think an OOS who is not NMF would have to have something special beyond grades, scores and traditional ECs that UF is specifically looking for to get good merit.
Agree that UF reputation does not extend North. Would not put it in same league as UNC or UVA or Michigan or Califormia schools. Not really in same class as Ga Tech UT Austin and some others, USNWR rankings aside. This is simply from a Northerm reputational perspective (mine), and though I’m no recruiter, I’ve done more than my share of hiring for recent grad positions between Boston and DC for a huge multinational. That’s just a Yankee reputational feedback though, means nothing about the education, and I think the rep thing is going away hard, other than Wall St and elite high tech perhaps. It’s not that important any more, no where near where it was 15 or even 10 years ago. Last few hires we made were from U Vermont, Rutgers and Delaware, over multiple kids from Colombia, NYU and Cornell. Maybe those ones help gets the foot in the door a little easier, but nowhere near as important as once was, and not worth the money to those in the mid-upper middel class band that seems to get to little to no aid, but can’t afford to cut checks like that. And no merit money directional move we’ve seen will change at some point imo as well. It’s a whole gigantic swath of the population that are really reevaluating the whole worth of it all as its currently set up. Especillay those with no URM angle to help them out (which I get, but have no interest in debating).
U of SC Honors College/Top Scholars sees plenty of hipo kids turn down UNC, Duke and Ivies due to the education, and save 100’s of thousands in the process. I really expect that to continue as current state of affairs keeps going on it way - iow, very rich and very poor can go anywhere they can get in, others need to make tough choices. Some of these choices are not really that tough. NYU and Colombia and schools like that could be approaching 100K annually by the time he graduates. Nuts. I think people are seeing that. Reputation is really overrated in most cases and getting less important every year from my experience in the real world. Anyway, pretty happy with the choices he has, not really caring much about Duke, UPenn, cause they will not make financial sense anyway I bet. Anyway, thanks for the opinions, and good luck to all at UF.