Our first notification deadline is right around the corner...October 14. I have received many emails from students, parents, and counselors who think this is an early admission, early action deadline. It is not. It's just one of two deadlines. We encourage students to try to be proactive and apply early. For the last couple of years, admissions requirements increased for our second notification, there was no scholarship money available for qualified students, and on-campus housing was more limited. Please remind your students to send us all test scores. We will not penalize them for the number of times a test is taken, or for the actual scores themselves. In our process where we have minimum subscore requirements and we combine the highest subscores to form the ACT composite or SAT total, it can only help them. In addition, if we have a score in place by our October 14 deadline, we will allow the October and November scores to roll in for our December 9 notification as long as the student indicates Florida State as a recipient of the score report.
The following are the minimum subscore requirements for admission consideration:
Writing: 500 on the SAT writing or 21 on the ACT English or 21 on the Essay/Writing optional portion of the ACT Math: 500 on the SAT math or 21 on the ACT math Reading: 500 on the critical reading portion of the SAT or 22 on the reading portion of the ACT
We are currently up in applications, so I expect the December 9 notification to be larger than last year. Have a wonderful year, and please continue to be in touch with your questions.
~janice
Janice Finney Director of Admissions Florida State University P.O. Box 3062400 Tallahassee, Florida 32306-2400 Email: jfinney@admin.fsu.edu Phone: 850.644.1328 Fax: 850.644.0197 Go Green: The Office of Admissions is "going green"; many of our communications, including admission decisions, will be sent electronically. Applicants should make sure that we always have the most up-to-date email address, and should remember to regularly check the online status at https://admissions.fsu.edu/StatusCheck/. To ensure receipt of our emails, be sure to include admissions@admin.fsu.edu in your address book.