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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]74,800 total freshman applications

Below are the estimates, based on data released by UF in previous Board of Trustees meetings …

41,500 FL applicants
32,300 OOS applicants

16,000 accepted applicants (all programs)

6,600 slots available (all programs)

13,000 FL accepted applicants x yield rate of 45% = 5,850 enrollments

[b]3,000 OOS accepted applicants x yield rate of 25% = 750 enrollments (11.4% of overall)
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16,000 / 74,800 = 21.4 overall accept rate

13,000 / 41,500 = 31.3% FL accept rate

[b]3,000 / 32,300 = 9.3% OOS accept rate[/b]
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These stats are so interesting to me.  Unless they really don't care / don't want the OOS kids to enroll, you would think FL would figure out a better way to figure out OOS acceptances.  I mean, they only accept 9.3%, but then 75% of those kids don't attend.

Even the PP who's kid has been accepted...it seems like it is unlikely they will actually attend based on the really high stats and other possible options.[/quote]

It’s challenging to estimate it any other way - especially this admissions cycle’s numbers. There are finite available seats, +/- some year-over-year expansion capacity. There are state caps on OOS enrollment that have a bit of flex because many of the other impacted schools in FL are heavily skewed to in-state enrollment, but historically we know the OOS enrollment rate at UF is in the neighborhood of around 14%.

Working from that information, the calculus is fairly straightforward and the resulting acceptance rates have plummeted as the applications have soared. As the Board of Trustees presentation made clear, they are very invested in figuring out an effective yield strategy to drag the acceptance rates even lower, which is crazy at this point.[/quote]

I wonder what more they will do.  My daughter (at a FCPS high school) said that UF is becoming more popular with her peer group.  She initially thought that she was the only one in her class that applied - but later learned about 15 other kids who did as well.  Of course, she is just one person. [/quote]

There’s a lot going on. You have a warm weather flagship university that’s rising in the rankings, where the OOS financial cost is very competitive with the equivalent cost at the applicant’s in-state option (and substantially lower than the private schools in the national level), and it’s a large (but not too large) university in a college town with big time SEC energy, NCAA championship history across multiple major team and individual sports, and really strong graduate programs, as well.

Some of the best branding in the country, too. It’s hardly surprising that UF received more applications than just about every other state school except Michigan, most of the UCs, and I think only one other school I’m forgetting at the moment.

Those are some of the pros, anyway.[/quote]

Penn State is over 100,000.  That is actually kind of amazing to me since Florida has a much larger population...but is perhaps a smaller school.[/quote]

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