I’m currently as high school senior and I should be receiving my decision for University of Illinois this coming Friday. I have heard that if you are rejected from your first choice major you can be directed into division of general studies. Does anyone know anything about this?
I think every applicant is automatically considered for DGS.
According to CS professor who posted on Reddit:
“>There are a lot of highly qualified applicants that don’t make the cut for CS,
It’s worse than you think. Hundreds of highly qualified applicants are not even offered admission into DGS.”
Basically, although every applicant is automatically considered for DGS, even some “highly qualified applicants are not even offered admission into DGS.”
Here’s the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/2v2pmz/dgs_trying_to_transfer_to_eng_cs/coem70b
For some reason that link leads me to a page that says “this webpage is not available”. Also sorry for the question but what does CS stand for? Also basically what your saying is the admissions counselor selectively choose if they want to defer a student into DGS?
This is unique to CS. The university does not want to have a thousand students sitting in DGS hoping to transfer to CS as sophomores. (They already have them in other departments).
In just about any other major, you will not be denied DGS if you are “highly qualified”, which I assume means grades and test scores well above the DGS mean.
Yeah I was thinking that I applied to LAS and I was really just wondering if they do consider you for DGS if you don’t get into first choice I just remember there being no option on the applicatiomn