At UF, You Can Expect a Strong Recruiting Effort

• You Can Expect the Best
• You Can Expect a Supportive Network
• You Can Expect Programs to Recruit Minority Students
• You Can Expect Quality Education at an Affordable Cost
• You Can Expect Cultural Enrichment
• You Can Expect Achievement

The UF campus is a diverse one. Students and faculty come here from every county in Florida, every state in the country and 100 countries around the world. UF's recruiting efforts span the entire country and help prospective students learn more about the university.

Recruitment programs invite prospective applicants to visit campus, where they meet with admission officers, academic advisers and financial aid counselors to determine how UF’s tremendous academic resources can help them achieve their academic dreams.

Recruiting Programs

• UF Shadow Days
  This program gives high school seniors the “Gator for a day” experience when they shadow current UF students to class and around campus.
• African-American Student Recruitment Conference
  This program, held each January, is for middle school and high school students (grades 7-11) and their parents. Participants are nominated by their guidance counselors.
• Hispanic-Latino Student Recruitment Conference
  This program, held each March, is for middle school and high school students (grades 7-11) and their parents. Participants are nominated by their guidance counselors.
• Transfer Opportunity Program and Services Conference
  This program helps community college students to transfer into one of UF’s colleges after they earn an AA degree. The majority of participants are from Florida community colleges or one of UF’s partner high schools in Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, New Orleans and Atlanta.
• Destination Gainesville
  This program invites students who have been admitted to UF to a reception designed to encourage them to enroll in UF’s incoming freshman class. Receptions are held in 8-12 cities around Florida and the southeastern United States.
• Hispanic-Latino Outstanding High School Scholars Program
  This two-day program, held each July, is designed to attract top-rising Hispanic seniors to UF. Participants are nominated by their guidance counselors, and participants and their parents are invited to campus.
• African-American Outstanding High School Scholars Program
  This two-day program, held every July, is designed to attract the top-rising African-American seniors to UF. Participants are nominated by their guidance counselors, and participants and their parents are invited to campus.