<p>I'm hoping Drusba will comment on this. If we find out on Friday that we're admitted, what are the next steps that we can accomplish prior to accepting the offer? Do most people wait for aid offers prior to accepting? Do the early summer registration dates fill up quickly, so that people have to accept right away in order to get them? When do we find out who our advisor is? Will AP scores have to be sent officially, or will their appearance on the final transcript suffice as proof of score. And, one more; is Istart only available after an acceptance?</p>
<p>If admitted, you will receive an admission package in the mail which will explain everything. Before you can do anything about housing, summer orientation, things in Istart, anything else, you must first accept admission. It can be done on-line (IStart site) or by mail but preference is now on-line. There is no fee charged for accepting admission. To do it you will need a University ID number which will be in your letter of admission. After you accept, you then have to decide on housing, for which you can also apply on-line. That means, before applying for housing, thinking through choices of possible residence halls and alternative choices and whether you want to be in one of the living-learning communities. You can also choose more expensive private certified housing although you have to make a seperate housing application to any of those. Housing essentially starts processing applications in January. You should be aware that choice of housing and getting into living-learning communities is based on order in which housing applications are received with the required $100 deposit. The later the application, the less chance you have of getting your choices and if you wait to April or May to apply for housing you face risk of ending up in temporary housing.</p>
<p>For summer orientation/registration sessions, you should also apply early to get date you want. Earlier sessions fill up before later sessions. Shortly before you go you will need to take any required placement tests (math, others depending on program) on line. When you go to orientation you will officially register for classes. As a freshman, you will be registering after all sophs, juniors, and seniors have registered (they do so during school in the spring). That means some classes may already be close to filling before any freshman registers. As freshmen register, classes fill and thus those who register late face a risk of not getting some desired courses or getting them at undesirable times (8 a.m.) They do sometimes add new sessions of classes after sessions have filled.</p>
<p>In other words, it is to your advantage to accept early so that you can apply for housing early and apply for summer orientation early and, as a result, most do not wait for aid info that often does not come until April.</p>
<p>You will need to send official AP scores from the College Board to get credits. Not sure how they will do advisors this year, some years you just see them when you go to summer orientation but you can call earlier with inquiries. Other than the deposit and costs of summer orientation you do not pay for housing or tuition until after school starts in the fall.</p>
<p>Should we accept our admission and start doing those things even if we’re not sure if we’re going to U of I?</p>
<p>If you accept your admission you’ve committed to the school.</p>
<p>^ Wait no what?! Is that JUST at Illinois?</p>
<p>…because I “accepted” my admission at another school but I dont really want to go there that much…</p>
<p>thats just at illinois right??</p>
<p>^ When you accept an admissions, you are committed to that school.</p>
<p>…do you not read the fine print?</p>
<p>Agreed with Haruhi. That’s why they have a “decline” box as well. So you decline schools that you’re NOT going to and ACCEPT the one that you plan to attend.</p>
<p>^ I really hope this is confusion because I’m absolutely freaking out right now.</p>
<p>The school I apparently “accidentally committed to” was Mizzou. Are you telling me, that now no matter what, I HAVE to go to Mizzou next year?</p>
<p>I recall someone on that forum saying “click ‘accept admission’” and you are then officially accepted to Mizzou." </p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>(ps, id ask this on their board, but no one goes on there and it came up here…)</p>
<p>Other than early decision rules and single choice early action rules at some colleges, there is no rule that prevents you from applying to and accepting an admission at multiple colleges and then withdrawing your acceptance when you make final decision before May 1. Happens all the time, colleges do not prohibit it, and the only penalty for doing so is that you can lose your deposits. Illinois is fully aware that many may accept but end up going elsewhere. Illinois admits a total number based on its estimate of percentage who will actually enroll and in determining total admit numbers it is well aware that many may accept and then go elsewhere.</p>
<p>Housing won’t even have their application up until January 15th, 2010, according to the housing office, and it looks like the application fee is $150. Summer Registration Dates according to the Admitted Checklist say the following:
“Registration dates will be available this summer. An e-mail will also be sent with additional information.”</p>
<p>I see no advantage to accepting the offer prior to the ability to either apply to housing, or set up a registration date, or am I missing something?</p>
<p>As soon as housing has its app up you should consider possibly accepting and applying for housing quickly if you want a chance at the more popular halls in the six-pack (Garner, Forbes, Hopkins, Scott, Snyder and Weston) or, as some engineering students desire, ISR, as those fill well before others. The PAR and FAR halls are usually among the last to fill as many try to avoid them because they are the farthest away from (and a very long walk to) the main quad and have smaller rooms than any in the six-pack area.</p>
<p>Cody2010 I had a similar question with University of Iowa. I was admitted and followed instructions mistakenly accepting offer. I did research and discovered that ( at least for Iowa) you can decline your resent admission but will not receive full deposit back. As far as Iowa goes I haven’t decline admission due to several reasons: still figuring out where I will be accepted. Plus you did not apply to the university as a commitment agreement ( did you?) and its not even past May 1st.</p>
<p>When is the approximate date that summer registration dates and, therefore, registration for a summer reg date will become available? If applying to Certified Private Housing, I don’t believe you need to worry about University Housing except as a backup to it, and I don’t believe you have to be registered to apply to it either. Is that correct?</p>
<p>Not sure when they release dates for summer but it is by time those are admitted in February. For private certified housing you need to file a separate application to each particular PCH you might apply and you can find those on-line and you also cannot delay as to those too long because they fill including because they have a large contingent of upper classman who have already applied and been confirmed for next year.</p>
<p>OK, just got off the phone with Charles, the Admissions Officer and Blogger Extrordinaire regarding acceptance. Starting this year, all housing applications will go into a lottery in order to determine who gets what, in order to avoid the problem of people having to accept early. As for Summer Registration dates being available for online signup, that won’t occur until sometime in March 2010. You need to accept your offer of admission before either housing or summer registration signup can occur.</p>
<p>If you are considering Private Certified Housing, you need not have accepted or even have been admitted in order to apply. The earlier those applications are in, the better, since they are first-come, first-serve as far as availability goes.</p>
<p>Hey i applied to illinois for engineering and im pretty sure that I’ll get in (33 act, 4.2 gpa, nat’l merit commended) but i also applied to cal berkeley and their decision comes out march 25th
how long do i have to decide if I want to accept or decline illinois</p>
<p>As Drusba said, you can accept and later withdraw if another offer comes in, but you may have to forfeit a portion of a housing deposit for example. Accept as late as you can without compromising either your housing or summer registration choices.</p>