<p>Hey all, I have been keeping up with the UIUC team via email and i recieved some discouraging news recently...</p>
<p>These were my emails and responses:</p>
<p>I applied to UIUC about a month ago. I checked my status with the electronic ID, and for the past three weeks, it says application deferred. I was curious because I have three other friends who got accepted into ENG at UIUC and they have same statistics as I do and also sent their applications the same time I did. Online, it says all my stuff was recieved on October 20th and I realize BUS and ENG are different, but I just hope to hear soon and was curious as too way my application is still 'manual review: deferred (special circumstances BUS, no class rank, etc)'</p>
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<p>You can expect a final admission decision between December and February. This is when a majority of students will be notified of their admission decision. Although some students will receive an earlier decision, this is not the case for most applicants.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that you are being reviewed by a different committee than your friends since you applied to a different college. The reason it takes us a little longer to send out official decisions is that we do not have minimum admission criteria and therefore, we must review a majority of applicants before we can make final decisions.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Office of Admissions and Records</p>
<p>this is gonna take forever fellow business men.....:-(</p>