I should just add that, thankfully, we are in NY and have a strong State school system that is very affordable. He has Binghamton as an option, which is a strong schoole and generates lots of interest from employers here in NE, though again, the reputations may not extend to South, same as UF. Bing average scores and stats are likely higher than UF, though I would not expect a Florida student to want to pay full cost to attend.
Lucky to have these options, some states do not.
Someone is drinking the UF kool-aid. It’s a good school, but it’s recent rise in USNWR aside, it’s not elite and not better than a number of the schools named. For one, I would never recommend it for business with all the online classes if other food options are available.
And Clemson’s football team, it’s recent National Championships aside, is a not an elite football program. SMH
@itsgettingreal21 Not sure about the kool-aid at UF but I can say the average SAT score admitted for this years honors class(around 1500) had an average SAT score of 1517. Havard admits around 1900 with an average SAT score of 1515 so pretty close either way.
@moscott Lets not go there. UF and Harvard do not go together. and UF Honors is not Harvard. Sure a lot of the kids admitted into the program are high stats kids and UF has become one of the most selective public schools in the country. However, it is still behind the prestige of Michigan, UNC, UVA, and UCLA. All of these schools are well known around the country and pretty much world destinations UF is clearly not there.
Part of the reason UF has become such a highly ranked school is due to the fact that they get so many applications from such a populous state and it is ridiculously cheap with or without Bright Futures. In addition, the common app has made even easier for students to send those extra applications to all of these schools. Just look at FSU. Just in the past few years, they are closing in on 60K applications and FSU has the extra advantage of offering one of the least expensive tuition rates for those OOS students. It is very easy to see why they are admitting 30 percent of the applicants.
As UF continues to market themselves outside of Florida, they might eventually get there. They need to boost their OOS presence in order to plant the seeds, but they also need to do more in revamping many of their programs. The whole online business core (even lower divisions) does not do them any favors when compared to many of the schools that offer direct admit. In this case, I am not even talking about Michigan, UVA, and UNC, I am talking about schools such as Indiana, Ohio State, and Michigan State, schools that are closer to UF in general. All of these schools are chasing the same thing, low rankings.
@mrminsky Actually let’s go there. The metric determinant between #1-10 in school rankings is virtually nil. I think you’re conflating name recognition in this situation. When you say behind prestige of Michigan, UNC etc…it is again negligible at best academically, only in name recognition.
Now I’m not saying they are there but without a doubt they are now moving up steadily in rankings due to the offering of top students nationwide getting a free ride. Of course they being in a populous state helps, just as it does for the CAlifornia schools who put 3 in the top 7…so? It just means you have that many more top students to offer.
Bottom line is they are admitting close to the same amount of kids with equal stats as is a Harvard. Again UF admitted 1500 students to the honors program with a higher average SAT than Harvard’s 1900 and a good majority will graduate with little to no debt vs high student debt at Harvard. UF and Harvard are 2 different schools with Harvard being a predominant liberal arts college.
@mrminsky you do know that UNC has a minimum 80% or so requirement from in state. So to use the out of state argument does not hold water. And look at how they are perceived. I will tell you that while UF might not span across to the west coast it is very highly regarded in the northeast and considered very rigorous. In particular kids from NY,NJ and Penn… kids would give their left arm to get in
D just got an email that Florida Days for April 13 was canceled.
Not to beat a dead horse, but there are many kids at UF with SAT scores well above 1500 who are not in the honors program, mostly because scores and grades beyond a certain threshold have little to do with who is accepted into the program; the essay counts for almost all. This will likely change when and if UF creates the dedicated honors college that it intends to open in 2023.
Looking at the numbers again, yes, I am even more confident that in absolute terms, there are more extremely high SAT/extremely high GPA kids at UF than at Harvard.
Who cares? If you don’t think UF offers what you are searching for, DONT GO. It’s as easy as that. Being from Ohio, UF has a reputation here. Idk about northeast but tbh idrc. Just agree it’s a good school but not an Ivy… cool… done
Agree that UF is not Berkeley, UCLA, UM, UVA or an Ivy… Getting close to UNC imo and I think UT has lost a little luster ever since implementing the top x% rule from any school district…
Prestige is moving up. All in good time, the demographics favor UF over the good midwestern and northeastern publics going forward (unless they all can go oos crazy like UM, which obviously they cannot).
Has anyone received their acceptance package in the mail? The admissions office tweeted a week ago that they were mailed.
Yes, two days ago (in CA).
yes, yesterday.
NY.
I think people are way too caught up in “the number 7 ranking”. UF is a huge school and that ranking is an OVERALL ranking (yes, like every other school on that list). But it doesn’t mean they are specifically a top-ranked business school, or a top ranked CS school etc. (randomly picked subject areas). It means that when looking at set metrics for the overall experience it ranks high. So while an overall high ranking is GREAT-- don’t want to diminish that accomplishment–a ranking is only significant if the data that is being used to compile it is data that pertains to YOUR wants/needs/expectations… My point is I think it is personally much more important to determine your own personal ranking/fit of your choices, and rely less on a publication’s ranking. I say this as a proud Florida graduate, but someone who also knows that the vast majority of long term personal success is rarely (if EVER) tied to a ranking–best of luck to everyone in these crazy times. Go Gators!
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@doublegator Congratulation to you for admittance to UFCOM! My DD will attend UF this fall on pre-med track, but still don’t know which major is better between biology and health science. Do you have any suggestion from your experience?
So I was admitted to UF and I guess I didn’t do as much research as I should have about the academic year. Is it a trimester school? I didn’t realize that there is a summer, fall, and spring term, I thought it was just fall and spring. I only realized from my financial aid offer and unfortunately there is just no way I can afford it if it is summer, fall, and spring.
@JM7965 UF is on a semester basis. Some Freshmen get admitted for the Summer B session. They do not want everyone to start at the same time.
@1917souci How does that work from a cost perspective? Is summer and fall tuition lumped into one payment?