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[quote=Anonymous]No, Florida is not "very, very difficult" get into.  Not even close.  Florida accepted 43% of its 2012 applicants.  That's no where near the top 100 most selective colleges, according to US News.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate/page+4

As for SATs.  According to Florida's own numbers, fully 1/2 of the class of 2016 had SATs under 1940 ( out of 2400). Oh, be sure, they are using the highest scores for each student.
http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/ugrad/frprofile.html

Florida loves to tout the high grades of its admits.  But wait. Look closer.  Florida says the grades are "as computed by UF."  They are obviously weighting heavily.  Almost half of their applicants had GPAs over 4.0.  Really?  
Source: Same as above.

Take all these self-reported numbers by colleges with a grain of salt.  The colleges are all coming up with ways to make them seem impossible to get into.

It's your schools counselor's job to let the colleges know how rigorous the school is.  Sounds like your counselor wasn't working hard enough.  More likely, the counselor had too many kids to really advocate for them.

I moved here from Florida.  I know all about high schools in Florida and sorry, they are nothing like the schools up here.  A good way to measure the kinds of students states are turning out is the NMSF cut-off.

Maryland 219
Virginia 217

Florida 211
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