Fighting Illini Chances

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>Hey. Hope you guys could give me some chances.</p>

<p>Senior attending semi-competitive HS in South-Central Jersey (sends one Ivies, three-ish to top 40 schools)</p>

<p>Plan to major in Civil Engineering,</p>

<p>ACT: Composite 33 - 34 English, 33 Math, 31 Reading, 34 </p>

<p>GPA: Right around a 4 weighted, 3.7 unweighted.
Classes: Most rigorous curriculum: All honors and AP classes.
APs: Soph: AP Macroeconomics-4
Junior: AP Spanish Language-(Couldn't take test)
Senior: AP Physics (Well, it's not AP, but its the same coursework/load and I plan to take the test)
AP Calculus AB
AP USH
AP Microeconomics</p>

<p>EC's- National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Team, member of founding team as senior
designer/engineer. We won the NJ regionals and won a Rookie
all-star award, after which we went to the world champs in Atlanta.
Morning TV show, I created a lot of attractive, professional grade Flash
Intros which really got everyone talking!
Habitat for Humanity</p>

<p>Work experience(significant!)</p>

<p>Worked in a construction company all four years of high school. I started as skilled labor(electrics, plumbing, carpentry) and moved up to more professional jobs. I am now a project manager, sales consultant, in marketing, and I've created a website for our firm. It's a serious job in which I've used a lot of stuff I learned in school. I'm also given full-scale responsibilities, like some sales presentations and crew management, no easy stuff. I can run most machinery, including excavators and large tractors, and tools. I hope colleges look at this as a much more involved employment as opposed to something like working in a supermarket (nothing wrong with that, but my job's way more intensive!)</p>

<p>Special considerations, if any:</p>

<p>Come from a low-income family for where we live, I think. I'll do the EFC thing today with my folks, but I expect it to be at most $2,500. I work very hard to support it. I used to work around 30-35 hours a week before, now due to the housing slump, that has increased to near 35-40 hours, taking away some time I could've used to study, play lax, etc. I heard the Ivies+top schools have a hard time attracting lower income kids, so I'm hoping mentioning this will help me. I worte about it in the extra info section and mentioned a snippet in my essay.</p>

<p>Quick Question, What's the best food in UIUC?</p>

<p>Thanks for your input.</p>

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<p>Pretty much as good as in…</p>

<p>Best food as in a restaurant or for a dorm? My sister stayed at a private dorm called the Illini Towers and the food there was great. I hear the regular dorm food isn’t great, never tried it though.</p>

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<p>ISR has the best food I think.</p>

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<p>Are you sure about the whole in thing? I mean, UIUC is ranked first in CivEng. Anyone here on CC going there?</p>

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<p>Two most important factors are class rank (which you do not give) and test score (which is high). Based on GPA and courses taken guess would be rank is fairly high (or they will estimate it fairly high if your school does not usually rank) and. along with other info you provide, chances of admission are good. </p>

<p>Dormitory food, as is traditional at most colleges, is often put down by the students but is actually decent throughout all the dorms.</p>

<p>A downside to be aware of: UIUC does not guarantee meeting 100% of financial need and most often does not (coming closer to 70% to 80%) so you could have affordability problem even if admitted.</p>

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<p>That’s all right, 80% is still good. </p>

<p>My school doesn’t rank. I know I’m at least in the top 20% because of some in-state thing they sent me, but I project I’m right around 10%. I’m still good, right?</p>

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<p>what ethnicity are you</p>

<p>and you should be in at uiuc</p>

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<p>Wait, wait, wait. Don’t tell me that as soon as you’re Asian you only have a .0000005 chance of getting in like most other good schools. That’s not the case, right?</p>

<p>How’s Urbana-Champaign? I mean, like activities? Is it as happening as Austin?</p>

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<p>A girl from my school got into the civil engineering with a 27 on her ACT and a class rank of 11 out of 280.</p>

<p>I also know a guy who had is currently in civil engineering who got a 30 on his ACT and had a mediocre GPA.</p>

<p>You will be fine.</p>

<p>As for the campus, from what I have seen the college life is pretty good, but if you want good food, or quiet studying in your room, a private dorm is a must. Also, attending one of their hockey games was one of the more enjoyable experiences of my life (if you love heckling).</p>

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<p>Lol, I think I’ll be alright then. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Just as long as you realize Austin it ain’t.</p>

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<p>True. True. Honestly, I’d rather go to UTAustin than UIUC</p>

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<p>Hey another FIRSTer! Are you ready for kickoff in less than a month?!?
On topic - I think you are a good match for UIUC, but I’ve heard the financial aid isn’t too great, and you’d be paying out-of-state tuition.</p>

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<p>Yep, I’m a firster (If that’s what you call 'em). I’m not in FIRST anymore because I have to work and have no time, but I’m damn sure that if I was there last year and this year, we’d be heading to the Champs! :wink: But I have been following the game and been keeping in touch with our team. I’m curious to see what the new game will be. Have you guys gone to Atlanta? Is that where the champs still are?</p>

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<p>Well my team has been around since 1996, so we’ve been to the Champs a bunch of times (still in Atlanta). But big congrats on getting there your rookie year.</p>

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<p>Thanks. It was pretty cool going there our first year. We went to the Georgia Dome and we woke up and said: Whoa! What the he11? How’d we get here our first year?</p>