<p>Implied question: what if a HS student at the time of college application does not know what major course of study (college type) that he or she wants to engage in?</p>
<p>If undecided you would choose on the app where a major goes “General Studies” in the Division of General Studies from which you would then transfer after freshman year or after first or second semester sophomore year to an actual major in one of the colleges.</p>
<p>thanks, drusba. If one did this option - general studies, then entry into a particular college later - what are the criteria to gain admission into that college? Have a certain GPA, have certain prerequistite classes? does it vary by college?</p>
<p>I notice that each college at UIUC has different entrance statistics on who enters the college. For example, the mid 50 pct for ACT is higher in the Engineering college than in the LAS college. </p>
<p>If you entered a college after starting a UIUC career vs coming directly from HS, what do they look at? Do they look at your ACT score previously done when you were applying to UIUC ?</p>
<p>What is needed to transfer not only varies among the colleges but varies among majors within a college. You can start your research here [Intercollege</a> Transfer Information (ICT), Office of the Provost, University of Illinois](<a href=“http://provost.illinois.edu/programs/advising/ICT.html]Intercollege”>http://provost.illinois.edu/programs/advising/ICT.html)</p>
<p>High school record and test score can have some consideration if transfering after first year into second, none if transfering mid-sophomore year or after.</p>
<p>What course pre-requisites and GPA are needed vary. For example engineering is “hard,” in a sense, to transfer into because of GPA requirements (varying from 3.0 to 3.3 depending on major and mainly have As and Bs in math and science related courses) and course requirements – you need to be taking freshman year (and sophomore year if you wait to transfer later) the usual sequence in math, chemesitry, and physics courses that engineering students take. BUT if you actually meet the GPA and course requirements transfer is fairly easy into engineering. Nevertheless, that is a significant “BUT” because many of those freshman math, physics and chemistry courses leave many in the dust because they cannot get the B or better needed. Into most majors of LAS, the GPA requirements are much lower (and many majors do not require more than a 2.0) and the course requirements are mainly taking gen ed courses and the basic two freshman courses in the major (or more if you transfer third or fourth semester of college). Transfer into business is the most difficult since it tends to take only about 50% or less of those who request transfer into it and many with good GPAs don’t succeed in transfering (and for business there is currently only one chance to transfer – you must apply in May of freshman year and are accepted or rejected in June after grades come out and there is no opportunity to apply during any year thereafter)</p>