Chances of getting into U of I engineerign

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>I'm a junior in high school. What are my chances at U of I engineering Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering. (still undecided, leaning towards CS)</p>

<p>ACT: 33
GPA Weighted: 4.22(4.44 recalculated without freshman year hehe)
AP's taken: AP Gov - 4
Ap's that will be taken: AP Calc BC, Multivarible Calculus/Elementary Linear Algebra, AP Chemistry, AP stats, AP Language, AP Physics, AP Computer science.</p>

<p>EC's
National Chinese Honor Society
Physics Club
Robotics team
Varsity soccer (2 years)/On a club team that competes nationally
JETS (Junior engineering Technical Society)
Tutoring (5 hours a week, tutor since start of junior year)
Occasional Volunteering (A little over 30 hours)
Program in C++, JAVA and Python in free time.</p>

<p>On a scale of 1 to 10(10 being 100% chance of being accepted) what are my chances?</p>

<p>Anything I need to improve?</p>

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<p>Freshman year counts at UIUC, senior year does not for admission. Assuming you will be in the top 8% of your class at end of junior year, your probability is high (8 on that 1 to 10 scale) but can be greatly lessened by doing bad essays.</p>

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<p>I see, thanks for the feedback. Is there anything that you think I can improve to improve my chances?</p>

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<p>stay out of trouble. good essays. you’re in if you do that</p>

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<p>highly likely, as your stats are similar to mine and i got in</p>

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<p>i got in this year with 31 act (34 math) and 3.85 uw, 4.08 w</p>

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<p>Just to make sure, you guys are talking about getting into engineering right?</p>

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<p>I’d like to reassure you even more and boost your confidence!!!</p>

<p>Frankly, I know for a fact that U of I is “numbers school” as in they rely heavily upon GPA and test scores. So in actuality, your essays don’t have to be outstanding, in fact if your ACT is good enough (34?, 35!, 36!) they don’t even read your essays (told to my father by his friend, head of admissions at UofI Eng), if they don’t see anything wrong… they just place you in the admit pile. If your numbers are good, essays are primarily used for scholarship considerations.</p>

<p>As for your chances… as long as senioritis doesn’t get you too bad, you’re a shoe-in.</p>

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<p>uhh, in response to emmers, i’m pretty sure that drusba works in admissions or with admissions or something? i’m pretty sure essays matter like he said.</p>

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<p>ok. cool. i’m just relaying tertiary source information… but either way, the OP seems to have a great chance imho :)</p>

<p>goodluck bobrenjc!</p>