So I just finished my freshman year as a student in the UIUC College of Business and am pretty familiar with everything regarding the university. Looking to give back to incoming/transfer students, as many people helped me on here last year. Ask me about transfer/admission odds, housing, campus life, etc. More then happy to help! : )
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I would like to know my chances for UIUC business, it is my dream to go there.
GPA: 3.0 Unweighted
ACT:30
First gen student
Low family income
A lot of extracurriculars
Good Essays
Asian
I know my GPA is no where near what UIUC wants for business but I messed up my freshmen and sophomore year. I tried hard junior year and got a 3.5 gpa which raised my gpa up. I basically progressed over the years. I was also wondering does me being a first generation student with low family income help at all? The average act for college of business is 28-32 and I am right in the middle, the only thing that is bringing me down is my GPA.
What is the best dorm hall for a college of business student?
What is campus life like?
Also just finished my first year. bigmind, it depends on what you’re looking for. I’m in engineering so I didn’t talk to too many business majors but the general feel is Hopkins is the party dorm, Bousfield/Nugent is the rich kid or upperclassmen dorm, Snyder is the lame dorm, Scott is for transfers, Weston is probably the most normal dorm and TVD sucks. Don’t live in TVD. Those are all closest to the BIF. If you aren’t looking at Ike area, ISR is for engineering students, Allen is the more hippy dorm, LAR a little less and FAR/PAR are for weird kids. Keep in mind, these are just the stereotypes so it doesn’t apply to everyone, but those are the general feelings of them.
Campus life is whatever you want it to be (as cliche as that is). If you want to go out seven nights a week, you can and you can find people to do that with. If you want to go study, you can find people like that too. If you’re looking for a good balance, you’ll find more people like you. Campus can feel fairly self segregated as well, meaning that similar people tend to stick together. A lot of the international students are Chinese and they make up a large portion of the student body. Depending on where you are, it’s not uncommon to hear more Chinese than English being spoken.
Concentrating on the academic part
I just got my AP results and both my micro and macro are only 4. So I am kind of worried. Can I exchange them for credit hours? BTW, I also heard about Econ 102 is an easy class( compared ). So is it worth for my to skip?
How’s the math department at UIUC? I’m gonna be applying to LAS for pure mathematics. And I’m wondering how it is.
Indian applicant:
1440 on SAT. Class 9- 9.6 Cgpa
Class 10- 9 cgpa
Class 11- 91%
Class 12- 80.2% (Scored 58/100 in Maths due to communal riots and typhoid. However, my maths teacher would mention this in her recom)
I am the 4th ranker of the world’s largest inter-school quiz, Aqua regia which included more than 140,000 students. Have been teaching Physics poor and underprivileged children from 2 years, Maths and Science Quiz champion for 2 consecutive years at school level, special award by principal for excellence in Physics, debate champion at school level, worked on a research project on Electroceramics with a college prof. Collected a fund of 20000 INR for Nepal earthquake relief,organized a peace rally after communal riots in my city and delieverd a speech in the rally, founder of StarGazers Club in my society.
First student from my city to apply to Colgate and first student from my school to write SAT and apply for US universities. Very strong recom letters. Expecting a “once in a Life-time student” sentence from both Physics and Maths teachers.
Preferred Major- Physics or Maths-computer science
Can I get in?
However my major Concern is that can i afford UIUC? My parents can contribute atmost $28000.
Please help me. I love UIUC but it is eating me from Inside that what would happen if I can’t afford it.
Thanks in advance 