It is helpful to think of chemical bonding as being on a sliding scale, where at one extreme there is pure covalent bonding, and at the other there is pure ionic bonding. Most chemical bonds lie somewhere between those two extremes. When a chemical bond is formed between two elements, the differences in the electronegativity of the atoms determine where on the sliding scale the bond falls.
The freshman class resulting from the pool of 12,375 students admitted could number nearly 3,100, pushing total UCR enrollment to near 13,000 next fall - up from 11,600 this year.
And at UF, the number of out-of-state students rose by 16 percent from 7,002 applications last fall to 8,091 this fall. Of those, 3,253 were admitted this year, up from about 2,500 students last year. But the rise in out-of-state students does not steal spots from in-state students, officials at UCF and UF said.