<p>how hard is it to get into UIUC as a chemE major?</p>
<p>As a rough guideline, UIUC Engineering requires a high school class rank in the top 10% and around a 30 ACT.</p>
<p>is it harder or the same for out of state?</p>
<p>chemE is part of LAS, not the engineering school.</p>
<p>why is that? (sorry, sort of a derail.)</p>
<p>UIUC treats out of state students the same as in state. The only slight difference is that they're familiar with the top high schools in Illinois and will give those students a slight boost in class rank, while they obviously can't do so for out of state applicants.</p>
<p>so if chemE is part of LAS, would that make UIUC most likely a safety? sry im listing my stats though kinda a pride thing</p>
<p>No, even though ChemE is part of LAS, it is one of the most selective majors at UIUC, along with ECE and CS. ChemE, Math/CS, and Stat/CS have higher standards than the rest of LAS.</p>
<p>I just looked up exact stats for the 2004-2005 entering class of ChemE students, and their averages were 30.5 ACT and 94th percentile class rank.</p>
<p>"ChemE, Math/CS, and Stat/CS have higher standards than the rest of LAS."
True for ChemE, but not for the other two.
Source: <a href="http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/prospective/ugrad/ugprogramrequire.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.oar.uiuc.edu/prospective/ugrad/ugprogramrequire.html</a></p>
<p>Chem E is part of LAS as a matter of historical happenstance. When it was added as a major in the early 1900's it was done by the Chemistry Department which was in LAS. The College of Engineering at the time was not equiped with any chemistry labs or any professors with a chemistry background. Though Chem E is thus within the LAS college, it now mainly follows the engineering college for a lot of its courses and its criteria for admission and graduation. Its 50% range of admittees is usually about 29 to 32 ACT and upper 12% to 4% high school class rank. </p>
<p>On a side note, the physics major and the Department of Physics has the opposite history. Though that department would at most universities be part of the LAS college, at UIUC it is part of the College of Engineering because the physics major was created by the engineering college in the 1870's, but today that major is considered an LAS major while the more difficult "engineering physics" major is considered a college of engineering major.</p>
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"ChemE, Math/CS, and Stat/CS have higher standards than the rest of LAS."
True for ChemE, but not for the other two.
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Hmm, I must have been thinking about transfer admissions then. LAS requires a 3.0 for Math/CS, Stat/CS, and Psychology, and a 3.2 for ChemE, but only a 2.7 for everything else.</p>
<p>man, does female and URM help on my app as a chemE major?</p>
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man, does female and URM help on my app as a chemE major?
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Both will help your application by a bit. In 2004-2005, there were 114 new ChemE freshmen, of which 9 (8%) were URM (5 black, 4 Hispanic, 0 Native American) and 42 (37%) were women. ChemE has by far the greatest percentage of women among the Engineering majors, though. For example, Computer Engineering had just 7 women out of 143!</p>