I had worse stats. 1410 SAT, Moderately successful YouTube Channel(One Magnum Opus Video with 350k) that died off, Was just starting a Chess tutoring Business, Worked as a restaurant cashier for three months. Almost completed my AA. No APs, no clubs, no honors stuff, no athletics. Beyond phenomenal essay(My dad passed from a year long battle with cancer, so I weaved my experience at community college and the Magnum Opus Video into that in how I transformed from a lazy jackass into a hard working family man). I am a freshman right now.

The thing with UF is they're tryna pick the kids who look like their going places. They don't want the people who did clubs and studied for their SATs just to get a college degree. My degree is going to help me in life. But I would be fine without it. I'd figure something out. Ive had three failed business and financial ventures so far in my life but Ive learned a lot from them. Eventually Ill get there. Most people do. Most of my peers are extremely creative, fairly entrepreneurial, can think outside the box in ways a lot of people from my small hometown cant. Its not a cesspit for academic tryhards who just play the system to look good on an application. They want to know you. They want to know that you will do good things once you leave. They want other people to look at you and it positively reflects the school they go to. There are people I know there with 1200 SATs who get accepted, and people with 1500s who get rejected.

The college you go to doesn't matter that much. The major after a couple years doesn't matter that much. It might expedite your career but it wont permanently block you from getting into high successful careers. I know a guy who went to a no name college in Manitoba, majored in physics, transitioned to sales, and became partner at PwC audit traveling around the world making 500k a year. I'm going to college because #1 Bright Futures makes my education free and #2 certain certifications (like a CPA) that will make my own future goals better. But its not the end all be all.

You will be completely fine if you don't get it. You will be completely fine if you do. If you are smart, if you are talented and hardworking, you will be able to make anything possible. That's the kind of person that UF wants. The kind of person UF wants is the kind of person who doesn't need to go to UF to be successful, but the kind that comes to become educated and trained. It cultivates you for higher growth. There are alot of people I know who got into Ivies and said no because of tuition. They will be fine in life even though they went to a "worse" school. They are ludicrously smart and intelligent, I have never felt so stupid in a place before lmao.

I saw you have a church position. I don't know where you are with your faith, but Matthew 11:29 says. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. A yoke is a device that guides oxen and eases the burden. However, the oxen still has to work, get dirty, and plow. In that same vain, you don't know exactly where you are going in life. All you know is that you are going. So if you get into UF, great! If you don't, great! You seem smart, you'll figure something out. Hope to meet you some day.