Asian Male, OOS (Texas)
GPA - 3.92 (unweighted)
AP courses (including senior year) - 10
SAT - 1560
ACT - 35
EC:
leadership positions in 2 school clubs, tutoring, robotics internship, created website, tennis
Your stats are great.
UIUC is very well known as having an excellent CS program. My understanding (I have not looked at it closely) is that admission to UIUC does depend upon your major. Given that you are out of state, it is IMHO a reach for you, but a reasonable/low reach. This is of course only a guess.
Are you auto-admit to UT Austin? If so, have you applied?
Thank you for your opinion! I am not an auto-admit to UT Austin but I did apply.
Reach. I think you gotta have your EC’s very high as I noticed that those with high stats who get in compared to those with high stats who do not have really good EC’s
Being out-of-state is actually not a disadvantage, as UIUC weighs in-state and out-of-state the same for determining admission for the applicant’s first choice major on the application (which any designated CS major has to be since it cannot be listed as a the second choice). Favoring in-state does not occur until deciding admission to second choice majors if the applicant cannot get first choice.
Nevertheless, CS engineering is one the hardest majors into which to be admitted and the rejection halls are full of many with stats as good as or higher than what you have. No one, even with a 4.00 unweighted and 1600 SAT, should consider admission to CS to be better than a reach. Your stats put in the same range of all those who are actually admitted, so you have a chance but do assume any certainty.