My child is currently waiting until next week for her Gator admission letter or denial. She has all the right stuff and is above requirements to get in but admissions at UF these days are crazy and unpredictable. She already has a backup plan (at FSU...oh god.). A UF denial and potentially having to see those god awful colors or even worse that awful noise in my house may lead to extended and intense therapy sessions for me. I'm sure all of us go through this with our college age kids but unfortunately my disdain for FSU is a bit on the extreme side. How does anyone cope with their kid not getting into UF and having to go to 13th grade at FSU?
Good luck to your Daughter. If she really wants to go to UF there is more than one way to skin a cat. If she isn't accepted you can transfer in after getting an Associate's degree at any Florida University...you just need to make sure you take the correct pre-req's for the upper-division college you want to apply to at UF (and get good grades). Did she apply for the Innovation Academy or another special program, by chance?
Me too. My son has 2 years of dual enrollment so if not admitted straightaway to UF he will go the AA route and transfer in. So competitive to get into UF now - he’s got the scores, grades and the extracurriculars. Still no guarantee.
Go anywhere but FSU. My best friend is a nole, and his son was working on a baseball scholarship to Gainesville and blew out his shoulder in his senior year and had to go to FSU. My friend lucked out, but I was laughing my ass off until his kid got hurt.
I didn't give my son and daughter that option if they didn’t get accepted at UF. I told them they will not get a penny from me if they attended FSU.
My understanding of innovation was it wasn't for her and complicated for kids to make it to graduation. I really thought she would get Vandy but not sure how much better you can get with your application but Vandy is just another world in admissions. I think a single Nobel prize in high school would possibly get you a deferred result. I certainly have threatened University of Haiti before FSU but damn there are "nearly" as many murders and crimes there as Tallahassee these days and U of H (Haiti not Houston) has to have a better football team. Ive got my UF rosary beads activated and a bottle of fine aged Lake Alice hydrilla infused sludge water (you know the stuff in the canal on the west side near the bat habitat) when the acceptance hopefully comes in. I am pushing for Santa Fe and back door in which is fine by me. The name on that diploma means far more forever than a 1 year detour into a CC.
Could we possibly, as a baby present, have an open ended NIL deal for him from Gatorade, just let him, if it is a him, fill in the blank number he wants!
My youngest son was 3 months old when we moved here to Knoxville. He was raised here in Knoxville, surrounded by Vol-mania. Note he was alive when the UF/UTn rivalry was at it's Fulmer/Spurrier peak, when the entire town turned puke-orange in September. Through all those 30 years, he has become a more passionate Gator fan than 90% of the people on this board. He started to try to gain admission into UF but his HS grades were so good, he was almost free at UTn, and he, prudently, took that route. I urged him to embrace the Vol college experience but he would have none of it: He became an even harder UF fan and developed a disdain for the Vols that crosses every line. I say all this to say, even if your child attends another institution that is a rival, it does not ipso facto mean they are obligated to root for that school's teams. I say the same thing about my daughter, also a UTn alum, though not as much a UF fan as her younger brother. After her first UF/UTn game she said "I realize I just cannot pull for the Vols if they ever play Florida." The University of Tennessee got some of my money, and my kid's sheepskins say UTn, but UTn didn't get their hearts. I'm OK with that.
