University of Florida
Florida publishes an acceptance rate of 24% and is required for the 2026-27 cycle.
Acceptance rate
What Florida's 24% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Florida reports itself.
Transfer
Fall 2025 degree-seeking transfer applicants (CDS 2025-26, Section D2) · as of August 2026 · 2× easier than first-year
Read the transfer analysis →Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Required for 2026-27
- Policy
SAT, ACT, or CLT scores are required of all first-time first-year applicants for Fall 2027 admission (narrow hardship exceptions), per UF's own Common Data Set 2025-26 (Section C8A). This reinstates a requirement after a prior test-optional period. ACT Science is no longer required/factored per Florida Board of Governors Regulation 6.008.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1270–1410sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 29–32
- Average HS GPA
- 3.92Fall 2024 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2024-2025) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Oct 15, 2026 (ED); Nov 1, 2026 (EA)
- Regular decision
- Jan 15, 2027Source
- Supplemental essays
- 1 required
UF applies via the Common App and requires one 'UF Supplement' short-answer essay (~250 words, on a meaningful commitment outside the classroom) in addition to the Common App personal essay. Honors Program and Innovation Academy applicants must submit an additional program-specific essay.
- AI use in essays
No Official Policy
We reviewed UF's freshman apply hub and requirements pages — UF relies on the Common App essay and publishes no UF-specific essay or AI guidance.
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 32,212
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $18,786
- Category
- Top Public
- Admissions site
- www.fsu.edu
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Dewey students who got into Florida
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Sources
- Florida test policy (2026-27)
- Florida deadlines
- Florida GPA (Fall 2024 enrolled first-year students (CDS 2024-2025))
- Florida admissions pages
- Florida admissions pages
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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