Hello, I will be applying next year to CS + Stats at UIUC. My stats will be a 3.68 UW GPA, 4.65 W GPA, and 33/34 ACT. I will be doing 2 CS related internships this summer, one of which is at Motorola. I have taken all AP CS classes at my high school and gotten As in all of those classes, including As in all of my math classes(I’m ending high school with Calc BC). I have a decent amount of extracurriculars as well, including a website design team in which I reached regionals. Do you think I can get in? I’m In-State btw. Please comment down your high school stats for whoever got into this program and your amount of extracurriculars and whether you were in state or OOS.
Looks like your ACT dropped a couple points from your last chance me posts here or maybe you are still trying to increase it? Are you a sophomore now then? I had assumed you were a junior with 12 AP classes already and had submitted the app/essay based on previous posts or maybe that was a projection? Either way, I think you still have a chance, especially if you are female or other URM, but it’s definitely NOT a safety. There just aren’t a whole lot or reports about CS+X here. Middle 50% is 32-35 ACT, 3.55-3.91 UW GPA according to https://myillini.illinois.edu/Programs/ComparePrograms
Previous posts were for my friend. This is mine. But I’m a male and 12 AP classes so around what chance like a % do u think I have of getting in?
Also does CS + Stats mainly focus on stats or is it combined
its like 60/40 split between CS and Stats I’d say.
You take the same core 9 classes as a standard CS major. (125,126/242, 173, 225,233,241,357,374,421).
The differences in your underclassmen years are that you need to take an extra semester of language classes for the LAS school and can skip the CoE Physics curriculum.
The major difference in your upperclassmen years are instead of CS technical electives, a lot of your hours will come from Stats classes. You’re still free to take technical electives but they wont count for anything other than credit hours (and knowledge, of course)