Chances for UI Urbana Champaign - Computer Science / College of Engineering

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What are my chances for getting accepted into UIUC for Computer Science/College of Engineering?

I am currently a Junior at a Texas HS

Here is some information about me:
Race: South Asian
Residency: Out of State / Maybe International

Rank: 11 / 543 (Top 2%)
GPA (Weighted): 4.72 / 5.0
GPA (Unweighted): 4.0

SAT - Attempt 1: 2060 - 800 Math; 620 CR; 640 W
SAT - Attempt 2: 2080 - 740 Math; 630 CR; 710 W
SAT - Superscored - 2140

Planning to take around 15 AP Tests by Senior year, and the scores from past AP Tests:
Computer Science - 5
World History - 5

Clubs:
Future Business Leaders of America [2 years; Club Vice President]
NHS / French NHS [1 year; Officer @ French NHS]
Science Olympiad [3 years; Officer]
Mu Alpha Theta [2 years]
JV Tennis [2 years]

Awards:
National Level Winner (4th place) in Desktop Application Programming for Businesses/Organizations
State Level Winner (1st place) in Desktop Application Programming for Businesses/Organizations
Region Level Winner (2nd place) in Desktop Application Programming for Businesses/Organizations
Region Level Winner (2th place) in Mobile Application Programming for Businesses/Organizations
School District Level Winner (3rd place) in UIL Computer Applications [Word, Excel, Access]

7 Medals in a French State Level Competition

Several Awards/Honors from School and School District Board

Notable Accomplishment in Computer Science:
Programmed computer software for teachers (including Computer Science Classes) and school administration [School management and Teachers use my computer software on a regular basis]

Thanks!

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Your GPA is definitely going to help you as UIUC cares quite a bit about statistics. At the same time, your composite SAT score is on the lower side in comparison to what they usually get (in terms of ACT, they usually get a composite of 35 or 36). I also want to go to UIUC for CS, and I recently talked to an admissions officer who does mostly engineering and CS applications (I’m in-state and I go to a school that gets a lot of acceptances from Urbana-Champaign). The two big parts that she said were emphasized in applications were ethnicity (because they want underrepresented minorities, which really won’t help an Asian like you or me) and ECs. Why ECs? They want to see that people do activites other than computer science. They would rather have a well-rounded, sociable person who just happens to be good at progamming than someone who only does activites related to engineering and/or CS. I think your ECs will certainly help out with that, especially the Future Business Leaders of America. One thing the officer advised not to do was to state that you do “coding” or “programming” in your ECs, because literally everyone puts that on their application. Unless you’ve done something on a national scale (such as your Desktop Application award), it won’t really help your application and will just saturate your list. I think you have a shot - the only major aspect you should improve on is that SAT score.