Qualifying for Admission
The Office of Admissions employs a comprehensive review process that evaluates academic and nonacademic criteria in selecting students for admission. We search for students who will be UF's future community of leaders, learners and thinkers, and whose education will be enhanced by diverse experiences and who will be prepared to serve and participate in all segments of society. We compare the information in your application to the size and strength of the entire applicant pool. The number of qualified applicants exceeds the number that the university can enroll in a given term. This provides UF the opportunity to carefully select admitted students from a large, excellent group of talented, prospective students.
Minimum Admission Requirements
- Graduation from a regionally accredited or state-approved secondary school or the equivalent (G.E.D., etc.).
- Fifteen academic units, distributed as follows:
English (with substantial writing) 4 years Mathematics (Algebra 1, Formal Geometry, Algebra 2) 3 years Natural Sciences (two units must include laboratory) 3 years Social Sciences 3 years Foreign Language (must be sequential) 2 years
- A cumulative C average in the academic core, as computed by the university, at all institutions attended, high school and college.
- A record of good conduct. Major or continuing difficulty with school or other officials may render an applicant ineligible regardless of academic qualifications.
- A combined score of at least 1330 on the critical reading, math and writing sections of the SAT (with writing), with a minimum score of 440 on each. Effective with the 2009 entering class, the university will begin considering the writing portion of the SAT.
- On the ACT With Writing, a composite score of 19 is required with a minimum of 17 on the English subsection, a minimum of 19 on the math subsection and a minimum of 18 on the reading subsection. ACT scores without the Writing component cannot be used for freshman admission decisions.
- All applicants must submit the SAT or the ACT With Writing test. While UF cannot mix scores from old and new tests, the university will accept the highest subscores from the new SAT if you took the new test multiple times. The university cannot mix or combine any ACT subscores.
Non-Accredited and Home Schools
Any student who does not graduate from a regionally accredited secondary school must provide, in addition to a transcript and the SAT or ACT With Writing results required of other applicants, results from the SAT II examinations in mathematics (Level II-C), foreign language, science and social science. For admission decision purposes, the university will use the result of the SAT writing subscore if the applicant has no dual-enrollment or virtual school English composition coursework, since the SAT II in writing is no longer offered.
Applicants who present G.E.D. scores must also present secondary school records and standardized test scores.
Admission Offers are Tentative
All offers of admission are tentative if you have high school or collegiate coursework in progress. Final admission is dependent on receipt and review of your final transcripts.
Admission offers are subject to cancellation if your final coursework does not meet admission requirements.
More information about UF's admissions policies is available from the Undergraduate Catalog.