Florida Students

Doesn’t seem right, but I see the official link. It was 10% just a few years ago. That’s a pretty big shift.

 

According to that link, it states 1.14%. However, the data appears flawed.

Link below has in state student residency at 46,231 and out of state at 14,881.

https://news.ufl.edu/media/newsufledu/documents/20230922-UF-Facts.pdf

UF Admissions Facts and Myths - Admission By Design

 

Do we want to be UCF or something?

 

Yeah, I don’t quite get the idea of admitting even more students because some parents get upset when their kids don’t get in.

 

One thing that I have thought of is that no matter what the qualifications of the student are, they aren't going to admit over a certain number of students from each high school. For example, if a certain high achieving high school has 30 kids with 1500 SAT's and 6.0 GPA's with AP classes all over, they aren't going to admit but maybe 10 of them. It's better to be a big fish in a small pond. Have those scores at a lower performing high school and you are probably in.

 

I know Ohio State has a massive enrollment (maybe one of the largest in the country?), but its basically just them and a bunch of tiny schools in Ohio. Florida has a pretty good state university system, maybe Florida might be some people's first choice, but I don't think you can go wrong going to FAU, UCF, USF, or FSU. Even beyond those, there are still decent public universities in the state. Maybe you wont get the bigtime sports experience, but lots of people dont care about that.

 

Always interesting to hear about someones kid who was the "perfect" student but they didn't get into xxxx university.
My oldest aced the SATs (not did great, aced) was the val in a class of 600+, president of numerous school organizations and captain of a sport's team.
He wasn't accepted into one of the three schools he applied to, but was accepted at MIT and GT.

It happens. Maybe his answer to an interview question was a little off, maybe they had enough top tier students in his major, maybe they didn't think he rounded out that incoming class.

Luckily i didn't raise a pouty kid and I am a realistic parent.

 

I've been hearing a lot of speculation about that, even from guidance counselors. My daughter's school is one of those. I've also heard that your selection of major may have an impact on the level of competition for available slots.

I have an update to her situation. All we knew after Friday was she wasn't directly accepted into UF so we gave her some space to process the news until yesterday. After a deeper dive into her email response from UF, she has been accepted to Santa Fe. After her AP course credits, she only needs 5 requisite classes for her engineering major while at Santa Fe, which may take 2 semesters. Provided she successfully completes that requirement, she will be automatically admitted into her college program at UF. She will have a UF advisor while at Santa Fe.

She really wants to do this (at her parents' expense since she's turning down scholarship money from other schools) so we will do what we can to make it happen. We're hoping to get her on UF campus by January so she doesn't miss out on too much of the freshman experience.

 

I love that our school had very high credentials. Moreover, I think it is important to keep in mind that Florida offers several paths to really good students who don’t qualify for general admissions — PACE and INNOVATION. Pace allocates kids in a slightly different schedule — starting in spring. Most move in the Fall, take online courses and participate in all UF has to offer. Innovation offers a different academic structure that has been very successful. We know multiple kids that didn’t into get into UF or FSU’s general admission, but were accepted into UF’s alternative pathway, and the kids did very well.

 

One site I found suggests that the percentage of international students at UF was 7% at least during that time period. it also said the percentage seems to be increasing in recent years but I didn't see historical tables. Does that sound correct?

 

If I were sitting in your shoes, I would very likely feel exactly as you do. It sucks, no doubt.

 

Are you sure we can't add more buildings and class space? Maybe we should be expanding.

 

We're talking about "A+" students with great academic credentials, not FSU, UCF type students.

 

As people have already pointed out, the percentage of students from in-state at Florida is much higher than other major flagship state schools. In fact, it is higher than you asked it to be.

 

No... it's not about their parents, it's about their grades and worthiness to even get into UF. I would at least offer them online classes to start.

 

The state of Florida provides less support for universities than peer states and heavily regulated increases in tuition. Where is the money to hire additional faculty, build additional residential and classroom buildings, funding additional transportation, etc. going to come from?

 

Large states don't have one flagship university for a reason. California has Berkeley and UCLA. Texas has Austin and A&M. Florida just needs to raise the standards of UCF, FSU, or USF. Admitting too many students to one location ruins the experience. UF is already bordering on that issue.

 

Same place as before... more students more professors. I also want to add that I am not talking about adding 10,000 more students to the student body. I think we could safely add 1K or 2K more students without losing any quality of students.

You people are acting as if I want 80,000 students on campus, which I DO NOT WANT... but 1K or 2K more is doable.