:] Do I have a chance to get in? Chance me please!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>I'm currently a senior and was wondering if you guys can give me some analysis?
I'd just like to know my chances since I would really love to go to UIUC, one of my friends already got in ED, but he's full IB student >< and a lot smarter than me.</p>

<p>Asian (Chinese)
Californian Resident
Planned Major: Business (Accounting)</p>

<p>Top 100 in the country's high school. Very competitive magnet high school. Not sure if it makes a difference though. >> It did half kill me, going there.</p>

<p>my school's transcripts gives TWO GPA's, these are Academic only
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.47
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.13
GPA 10th-12th (unweighted): 3.32
GPA 10th- 12th (weighted): 4.0</p>

<p>Total GPA (9-12) (unweighted): 3.52
Total GPA (9-12) (weighted): 4.12</p>

<p>School doesn't rank but I know I'm in the 30th percentile.</p>

<p>Freshman Classes:
Computer Logic and Algorithms
Fundamentals of Programming
English I Honors
Spanish I
Geometry H
Biology IB SL
Geography IB SL</p>

<p>Sophmore Classes (I traveled to China for the first semester, hence the double classes)
Information Technology in a Global Society IB
English II Honors
Spanish II Honors
Algebra II
Chemistry
AP European History</p>

<p>Sophmore America Classes:
Same as above except
AP Computer Science A (replace ITGS)
Chemistry Honors
Algebra II Honors</p>

<p>Summer of Sophmore Year (because of my China trip, my grades were horrible
Sophmore year, in Algebra II I got a D so I had to retake it):
Algebra II </p>

<p>Junior Classes:
Business and Management IB SL
AP/IB English Language
Spanish IB SL
AP US History
Pre Calculus
Physics</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
AP Government and Politics
AP/IB Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP English Literature
AP Macroeconomics
Drawing and Painting
Accounting for Business
Troy Tech Internship (our school's tech program, we do an intership through this)</p>

<p>SAT I:
CR: 800
Math: 670/700 (T.T failure Asian, failure at math :])
Writing: 690/730
Highest one sitting: 2200
Highest composite: 2230</p>

<p>SAT II's:
Bio/E: 660 (bad, I know)
Math IIC: 690 (T.T fail, I know)
US History: 730
Literature: 650/720 (No idea why theres such a big difference)</p>

<p>No ACT</p>

<p>APs:
Comp Sci A 3 (bleh)
European History 3 (also bleh)
US History 5
English Language 5</p>

<p>Plan to take Bio, Lit, Gov, Econ, Calc this year</p>

<p>Awards (weak here):
Principle's Honor Roll
Honor Roll
California Scholarship Federation member
AP Scholar with Honor
National Merit Commended Scholar (215 :[)</p>

<p>Extracurricular (pretty weak here too)
Swim 10th and 11th, JV
Leo Club 11th 12th grade
Tzu Chi (Taiwanese global community service/volunteer organization) 10th 11th </p>

<p>12th grade
Go/Chinese Chess Club 11th 12th grade
Summer Internship at NOC SELPA (North Orange County Special Education Local Plan blah ><): basically I helped to design and implement curriculum for autistic and special needs middle school children.</p>

<p>All of my community service is probably no more than 120 hours ><</p>

<p>Essays: I would like to think these are pretty strong >< but some of my other classmates wrote pretty DARN GOOD essays.</p>

<p>One essay was about my why I became interested in business. Decent to moderately strong essay.</p>

<p>The second essay was about my experience at Tzu Chi. It was an average essay.</p>

<p>I also wrote a short paragraph noting that I had a reaaaally big drop in my GPA sophmore year (2.8 GPA) because after I came back from China, I wasn't really prepared to come back up to the standard of work that my home high school had. But in junior year, I really brought it up with straight A's (and 1 B)</p>

<p>Thanks a bunch for reading through all this!</p>

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<p>sat is great. i could see both ways. they are very picky about gpa. my guess is a deferral, then admit. that is merely speculation though</p>

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<p>only thing that concerns me about your case is your math scores.
they do put a lot emphasis on math, however, your verbal is impressive.</p>

<p>you chance is, I believe, in somewhere between %50-%80.</p>

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<p>This is the last decision period. As such, there won’t be a deferral. You will either get an admit, deny, or waitlist, I believe. And that will come on February 19th.</p>

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<p>haha so which do you think Balthezar, admit or deny?</p>

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<p>Accounting is a very difficult program to get into, but based on the rigor of your courses I’d say you have a good chance of getting admitted. That admit decision may be admitted to an alternate program within the college of business, or admitted to DGS. In either case, you’ll have a chance to show them they should have admitted you to accounting in the first place, if you don’t get admitted directly.</p>

<p>You don’t state your class rank. They take that into consideration.</p>

<p>Lastly, they clearly list on their website what the stats of the middle 50% of the freshman class are. Looking at that will give you an idea of where you stand. Good luck.</p>

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<p>anyone else care to chance :]
this is pretty much my top school, after usc (its in state)</p>

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<p>i mean i got in with a 3.4 and 26 ACT…</p>

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<p>Your chances are good. GPA is a little worrisome but good enough test scores. </p>

<p>You don’t say you want to get into accounting. When they admit you, they put you in the College of Business. It is after you’ve taken a set number of credit hours that you decide your major. </p>

<p>Good luck.</p>