Reply With QuoteI'd call the admissions office and ask about how to file an appeal of your denial and what the process is.
Okay, here's the backstory: I have been trying to get into UNF for quite some time. I now have my AA, which according to Florida law, guarantees me acceptance into a four-year university.
I recently got the following letter:
"Dear Aaron:
Thank you for your interest in the University of North Florida. Regrettably, due to reduced funding from the state, transfer admission policies recently have been changed.
Because the University can only admit a reduced number of students, admission decisions are now based on an applicant's personal and academic achievements relative to other applicants. Even applicants who exceed minimum admission requirements are not necessarily qualifying for admission to UNF. After careful consideration of your academic credentials, I am very sorry to inform you that your application has been denied."
Yada yada, sis boom bah, right? Well, I don't have the hottest GPA in the world, thanks to my floundering interest in all things scholastic during my late teens and early 20s, but it's enough to get me graduated from the community college here.
Do I have any recourse? I know I can take it up to the President, and have before. But it is getting really late in the admissions process at ANY university. It's really freaking disheartening, to be honest.
The part that pisses me off about their "reduced funding" thing is that they have just built a new set of (really nice) dorms, a new Student Union, a new College of Education building, expanded the College of Business, and built a new Olympic-level track.
I want to sue their pants off or something, but I doubt I can, and it probably wouldn't be worth it in the end. All the same, my dream to become a P.E. teacher is crumbling before me.
Why do you still have signatures turned on?
I'd call the admissions office and ask about how to file an appeal of your denial and what the process is.
I have already shot them an email (it's quicker)Originally Posted by Skrull Corpse
Why do you still have signatures turned on?
aw shit, that's terrible.
My reccomendation, meaning if everything fails, is to take a gap year with someone like Americorps. Many colleges are really gung-ho about accepting Americorps alums, even if they didn't have amazing GPA's before. And they have health coverage.
Americorps saved my ass when I couldn't get into any art schools. Now I'm doing great, and they give you a bitty scholarship to get started. Also, you have the option to defer your loans you have from community college if you join. You can even do the VISTA program (which is paid and you often make your own schedule) since you already have your associates.
But yeah, that's my radical solution. Consider it!
I understand your frutration, but, you know, you sort of made your own bed with your, self admittedly, lackluster GPA.
About the construction projects on campus in light of the reduced funding- how do you know private doners did not fund those projects? Or that the University had been budgeting for those projects for the last 5-10 years and then the reduced funding hit?
I don't know man. I sympathize for you. I want you to go and finish your degree, but I don't know that I can empathize.
I was a college admissions officer for a few years after school. If you message me I'd be happy to take a glance at your academic profile and offer suggestions on what you can improve.
To be honest, I'm not sure what an appeal would do for you. Are you severely limited by geography, making UNF your only choice?
When's the next admission round? Did you give the school a compelling reason to admit you other than "I live in Florida, so you owe me one?" That's not the strongest argument. A college application, any application really, is an argument. The admissions person's job is to tell the school which people to admit. The people they advocate for are the people who make their jobs easier. If someone gave me 5 good reasons to admit them vs. someone else who didn't give me any clear reason other than general smarts, I'd take the person who made the good argument every time.
Thanks for the advice, guys and gal.
Brad, PM has been sent.
As for the construction, you're right, of course, Jason. No idea who paid for that or where it's coming from.
As for the GPA stuff, I pissed around and made low grades up until I went to preacher training school, which I realized wasn't for me. After a break and realizing what I wanted to do, I started back and have made nothing lower than a C since.
Why do you still have signatures turned on?
Can't you just go to another college? Is that a viable option? Me--I went to a relatively prestigious college, but looking back, I think I blew a lot of wasted money, and man, it took me ages to pay those loans back. Looking back, I could've gone to a lesser ranked 4 year college and come out with the same credentials and opportunities.
I'd have to move at least two hours away from here, which I am not totally willing to do.
UNF is the cheapest four-year option right now. There is Jacksonville University, which is private, and Bethune-Cookman, which is predominantly African-American. I could maybe get in there under some kind of quota thing but I dunno.
I started a thread some time ago about University of Phoenix, and I could get in there - at $300 per credit hour.
Why do you still have signatures turned on?
That's why I love going to a Public Ivy in my home state.
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