Chance me for UIUC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi all, I am an anxious senior hoping to get into UIUC for Computer Science under College of Engineering (made the same post for UC Berkeley but just copied and pasted for UIUC so if things look familiar…). Here are my stats:

SAT: 1510 (720 Reading/Writing, 790 Math, 20/24 Essay)
ACT: 34 (35 English, 35 Math, 34 Reading, 31 Science LMAOOO, 10/12 Essay)
Subject Tests: 800 Math II, 790 Physics
Unweighted GPA: 3.91 (have 3 Bs in PE/gym and got 1 B for AP Chem 1st sem senior year)
Weighted GPA: 4.31
Rank: N/A
AP: Computer Science 5, Calc BC 5, AB Subscore from Calc BC 5, APUSH 5, AP Phys C Mech 4, AP Phys C EM 5
IB: N/A
Current Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Chem, Spanish 4 Honors, AVID Tutor, AP Gov (1st sem), AP Microecon
Major Awards: Nothing major. AP Scholar with Distinction, Won a Hackathon, Eligible for Volunteering President’s Award, Synopsys Science Fair Honorable Mention, helped my swim team win a tourney

Extracurriculars: Speech and Debate (Parliamentary Debate), STEM Club Member (applied through Synopsys Science Fair via that club), Internship at EA Sports, JV Swim Team and Competitive Swimming, Coding Club officer/VP
Volunteering: Mentor in Hackathons, Hosted hackathons with my programming club, Volunteer at a special needs daycare, AVID Tutor, AP Physics C Teacher Assistant
Other Stuff: Built various Android apps in free time/hackathon and engineering project involving Alexa

Essays:
Think they are decent essays

Other Info:
out of state student
applied regular decision
2nd choice is Electrical Engineering
School Type: located in Cupertino (pretty competitive), medium-large (graduating class size is 610 students)
Gender: Male, Asian Indian
Income Bracket: Double income, both work in IT, live in Bay Area/Silicon Valley
Hooks: First one to go to college in USA (both parents got degrees from India), on H4 visa

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I think u have a really solid shot cause ur stats r great and solid EC’s. So just wait it out and take that fat dub in one day

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Yo thanks so much for the encouragement but i guess only time will tell!

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Did you get in?

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OP decisions should have been released. Did you get in?

Given that I had several friends hear back today, I would predict you got waitlisted but I am honestly curious about what the outcome was. Best of luck!

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I got into Electrical Engineering EA with a much worse extracurricular profile than you (I’m also from a Cupertino High School), so I bet you got into at least EE. Anyways, a belated good luck with your decision! If you got in, congrats! If not, it’s fine, there’s still the UCs :slight_smile:

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YO guys sorry for the delay but I got in my second choice which was Electrical Engineering! Although not my first choice still im p hyped cause ee is like 4th according to US news. Another question I had tho: how easy would it be for me to switch to CE (or even CS as a matter of fact) because all of them are under the school of engineering. By the ways, congrats to all of you guys on your decisions!

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@uncleran2 Switching to Computer Engineering will be infinitely easier than switching into Computer Science – UIUC knows that many hopeful Computer Science majors try to use Electrical and Computer Engineering as a backdoor into the school before trying to petition.

On the other hand, why not explore the hardware side a bit? EE is a lot of fun!

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@mundyt actually i did a bit more research on ee and it sounds like a lotta fun! But i still love the software side of things so ima be really happy if i can squeeze my way into ce cause there is a lot of potential in that field (pun intended), both on the hardware and software aspects.

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@uncleran2 You can still take CS classes as an EE major. It might be a bit harder to squeeze in, but I’m sure it’s more than possible

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You have terrific stats as far as I’m concerned.

I’m a current UW student, I applied to UIUC last year and was admitted with a lower GPA (3.79 UW/4.07 W) and SAT (1400) than you but a similar course load and you have some great extracurriculars (I was a tutor in high school too!)

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I was admitted as a premajor, not directly in anything yet.