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What UF experience do Prepory’s coaches have?
Prepory’s UF experience starts with coach Shane Van Deree, a former University of Florida admissions officer who earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UF. He spent more than a decade at UF across undergraduate, transfer, and graduate admissions, academic advising, and student experience roles, and taught two first-year courses, including one for business students.
UF doesn’t interview first-year applicants, so the written application has to do the introducing. As Shane puts it, the application is “your chance to let me, as the admissions officer, almost feel like I’m meeting you face to face.” Before you submit, your application also goes through Prepory’s committee review.
How Prepory’s University of Florida admissions consultants support you
Your Prepory coach works through each part of your UF application with you, starting with the core GPA that UF recalculates from your transcript.
UF recalculates a core, weighted GPA in which an A in an Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE), or core dual enrollment course counts as a 5.0, and an A in an honors course counts as a 4.5. Your coach runs that math on your transcript so you can see where you stand against the 4.5 to 4.7 middle range of admitted students.
UF admits you to the university rather than to a major, but the major you list is still one of the factors it reviews, and it decides whether you can be offered the Pathway to Campus Enrollment (PaCE) program. Your coach helps you weigh a declared major against the Exploratory option and plans ahead for the critical tracking courses and minimum GPAs your major sets for your first terms.
UF asks for the Common App personal essay and a few short-answer questions, and Honors applicants write one more essay that can't be added once you submit. Prepory's Writing Specialists give you unlimited feedback on every response, starting with whether it answers the question asked, since a short answer that celebrates game days and Gainesville weather but skips the prompt is a common way strong applicants fall flat.
UF offers binding Early Decision with an October 15 deadline, alongside nonbinding Early Action on November 1 and Regular Decision on January 15. Your coach helps you judge whether UF is a clear enough first choice to commit to before you compare offers, and whether your test scores, short answers, and any Honors essay will be at full strength by mid-October.
Scheduled parent check-ins keep your family current on what's finished, what's due, and what comes next. They also give parents a standing place to raise cost questions as your list takes shape, from Florida residency for tuition purposes to Bright Futures eligibility and merit scholarships.
Our students have been admitted to top schools
What makes UF different from other SEC schools?
The University of Florida is one of 16 Southeastern Conference (SEC) universities, and admission standards vary widely across the conference, from public flagships that serve large in-state populations to Vanderbilt, its only private member. At UF, that means a recalculated core GPA, a required SAT, ACT, or Classic Learning Test score, and no letters of recommendation.
In this webinar, former UF admissions officer Shane Van Deree explains what admissions officers weigh most, how your major and Honors plans shape your application, and what residency means for cost.
Is it harder to get into UF from out of state?
| Measure | Florida residents | Out-of-state applicants |
|---|---|---|
| First-year applicants | 42,172 | 39,420 |
| Admit rate | 22.3%, or 9,387 admitted | 20.5%, or 8,086 admitted |
| Admitted students who enrolled | 62% | 20% |
| Share of the entering first-year class | About 77% | About 21% |
| Tuition and fees per year | About $6,440 | About $34,620 |
| Bright Futures Scholarship | Florida Academic Scholars receive 100% of tuition and fees, and Florida Medallion Scholars receive 75% | Not available, since Bright Futures requires Florida residency |
Out-of-state applicants are admitted at close to the in-state rate, but far fewer of them enroll. Sources: University of Florida Common Data Set, UF Office of Student Financial Affairs, and Florida Statute 1009.531.
Thousands of families trust Prepory
Prepory has helped me with my college application processes since 9th grade, always providing me a quality, friendly, and professional service. Today almost four years after, I don't know if I would have expanded and applied my college prospects without their help. They help me revise my supplement, link me to admission officers, and informational webinars. Aside from these valuable services, all my coaches have been extremely friendly and supportive. Each session is like talking to an old friend or family. I am infinitely grateful to Prepory for these years of service.
Each session was like talking with a family member that cared so deeply about wanting to help make my dreams come true. With their help, I was given a four-year full-tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt University. I cannot thank Prepory enough!!!
I know that without the guidance, support, and knowledge offered by Prepory, I wouldn’t have had the confidence or know-how to navigate the college admissions process and get to where I am now. Prepory changed my life.
Prepory has helped me with my college application processes since 9th grade, always providing me a quality, friendly, and professional service. Today almost four years after, I don't know if I would have expanded and applied my college prospects without their help. They help me revise my supplement, link me to admission officers, and informational webinars. Aside from these valuable services, all my coaches have been extremely friendly and supportive. Each session is like talking to an old friend or family. I am infinitely grateful to Prepory for these years of service.
FAQs for University of Florida applicants
A University of Florida admissions consultant is worth it when you want guidance from people who know how UF reviews files, a process that recalculates your GPA, weighs extracurricular activities as heavily as grades, and leaves interviews out entirely. Prepory students have 2.91x higher chances of admission to the University of Florida.
The value comes from knowing those rules early. A sophomore who knows UF adds weight for AP, IB, AICE, and dual enrollment courses can plan a schedule around it, and a senior who knows UF accepts no letters of recommendation can put that energy into the short answers instead.
The University of Florida's acceptance rate is about 20 percent. UF's most recent Common Data Set reports 18,403 admitted students from 90,523 first-year applicants, a rate of 20.3 percent, and its newest admitted class drew 95,986 applications, the largest pool in UF's history.
The waitlist rarely changes that picture. In the same Common Data Set, 2,737 students accepted a place on UF's waitlist and one was admitted from it. You can see how that selectivity compares across the Southeastern Conference in Prepory's guide to all 16 SEC schools and what it takes to get in.
Admitted UF students typically have a recalculated, weighted GPA between 4.5 and 4.7, the middle 50 percent of UF's most recent admitted class. UF builds that figure from your core academic courses, adding a full point to grades in AP, IB, AICE, and core dual enrollment classes and half a point to grades in honors classes.
Those ranges are not minimums, and UF states that no single factor determines an admission decision. Because the recalculation rewards rigor, a transcript full of weighted core courses can land well above a higher unweighted GPA earned in standard classes. Students admitted to the UF Honors Program had a middle range of 4.6 to 4.8.
Yes, UF requires an SAT, ACT, or Classic Learning Test (CLT) score from every first-year applicant, and it has no preference among the three. UF superscores each test, combining your highest section scores across sittings, and leaves the ACT Science section out of its ACT superscore, though Bright Futures still requires ACT Science scores.
The middle 50 percent of UF's most recent admitted class scored 1420 to 1520 on the SAT and 32 to 35 on the ACT. Scores are due by your application round's materials deadline, and official scores must arrive by May 1 for you to enroll.
Apply Early Decision to UF only if you are certain you would turn down every other school to enroll, because UF's Early Decision round is binding and single-choice. Applications are due October 15 and decisions arrive by December 11, admitted students confirm by January 8, and deferred applicants are released from the agreement.
Early Action, due November 1, is the nonbinding alternative, and it produced 14,497 of the 19,012 admits in UF's most recent class. Early Decision is new at UF, so there is no published data yet on whether it admits at a higher rate. Shane Van Deree, a Prepory coach and former UF admissions officer, walks through that choice in Prepory's recorded webinar on getting into SEC schools. UF's School of Theatre and Dance also strongly recommends that Acting applicants not apply Early Decision.
You qualify for in-state tuition at UF when you, or the parent who can claim you as a dependent, have kept legal residence in Florida for at least 12 consecutive months before your first term, under Florida Statute 1009.21. You prove it with two or more documents, such as a Florida driver license, voter registration, or vehicle registration.
Moving to Florida for college doesn't change your status on its own, since UF's registrar notes that living or attending school in the state does not by itself establish residency. After your first term you can ask to be reclassified, but Florida law requires clear and convincing documentation that you have lived there permanently for 12 months rather than temporarily for your education, so check the details with UF's Office of the University Registrar before you plan around it.
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