eeps. chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>this is premature since i'm a Junior, but meh.</p>

<p>Nothing going with the race or alumni factors.</p>

<p>My GPA was a 3.7 until this year i got in a car accident and missed three weeks of school and also suffer permanent short term memory loss due to brain swelling or something(i don't think they would really care) and now it's a 3.2, but i will most likely bring it up at least a little.</p>

<p>I took a practice ACT and got a 29 but haven't taken the real thing yet.
And haven't taken the SAT but got a 1880 on the PSAT.
Also plan on taking the SAT II for literature.</p>

<p>by application time i will have been in:</p>

<p>4-H for seven years and was treasurer for two of them.
Radio for two years
Speech for two years
Drama for four years
Newspaper for four years, possibly editor for two of them</p>

<p>Apart from four years of the basics, I have four years of Latin
And my junior year and senior year i am taking an extra English class instead of lunch both semesters, as well as a credit-giving writing course this summer.
So i will graduate with seven credits of English.</p>

<p>I intend to go into Journalism, but i guess at U of I you can only enter the college of communications your junior year? so i would be applying to general LAS? not sure what i would apply to, just definite it would be LAS.
(please help with this too!)</p>

<p>sorry it was long and a bit on the pointless side since i have a year and a half, but if ya'll could help i would be forever grateful.</p>

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<p>please please help. i know 'what are my chances???' posts are mind-numbing, but i'm getting really worried about this. helps!</p>

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<p>Since UofI admissions are usually based primarily upon quantitative factors, I would suggest that you focus on pulling the GPA up as much as possible and be prepared for that ACT. I'm not an expert. but I'm pretty sure that the UofI admissions people are more concerned with your class rank than your actual GPA, and to be a solid candidate for LAS you would want to be in at least the top 10% of your class. </p>

<p>If you wanted to view the statistics for different majors you could go here <a href="http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp/&lt;/a> and if you scroll down through all the data to 4100 it tells you the "student quality" for enrolled students - for example, the average ACT score of students in the college of liberal arts and sciences was 27.8 and high school class rank was about the top 15%. </p>

<p>Of course, those numbers might be misleading because the statistics of enrolled students are usually lower than the statistics of all admitted students because some of the best qualified admits decide to matriculate to other schools.</p>

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<p>alright. thank you.
My class rank is pretty bad. i think im in the lower 100s out of 600?
meh, thank you!</p>