Computer Science Chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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I visited UIUC, and really love their CS program, however I know CS is very difficult to get into. Also could you chance me for Materials science as a second choice major.

  • SAT I (breakdown): 800M 780CR 660W 8E, also I took the June test, so will retake in Oct for hopefully 2350+
  • ACT: 34C 35R 35M 35S 32E 8E
  • ]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.788U/W 4.515W
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/866W 24/866UW
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics C, APUSH, AP Lit, AP German, Calc 3, Linear Algebra, Diffeq
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): WYSE 2015 Chemistry State 4th place, National German Exam Gold AP Scholar with distinction, NMSF
    [li] Extracurricular (place leadership in parenthesis):[/li]Scholastic Bowl Varsity Captain, WYSE Team, Science Club, Math Team, German Club, German Honor Society (having elections soon will probably be president)
  • Job/Work Experience: Seasonal Worker at Bestbuy 2014/2015
  • Volunteer/Community service: Only about 20 hours so far
  • Summer Activities: Summer Research Internship at Notre Dame with grad students in chem department.
  • Essays: Have written my cs essay and the two english teachers i’ve shown have liked them, said they really showed my voice, character, and passion for computer science. In process of writing my mse essay

I go to a large public school in illinois, which typically sends ~50 of 800 students in the graduating class to UIUC

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Bump

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Anyone?

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You will be able to get in as an in-state. A lot of B students are applying CS, and that makes them look good on admission rate. In reality it is not that competitive. My freshman son told that everyone is very confident about themselves but only a few are real material.

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As an upperclassman in CS, I’m pretty sure most of my classmates are “real material”. The average ACT score for CS is hovering above a 34 as of the last admission cycle. I go to the career fairs and Google, Microsoft, etc. are actively hiring our students. Once you’re on campus, transferring into CS is highly competitive (anything below an A- in the intro courses pretty much messes up your transfer) because so many people are trying to get in. Sure, I won’t deny that some of my classmates are cocky but I find this program to be just as competitive as other top schools. Your son is probably in a low level course but I’m finding that in the upper level courses everyone is capable of succeeding.