<p>what would you say a student needs for admission into U of I's LAS College in terms of:</p>
<p>ACT: (high low)
GPA: (UW W)
EC: (how many)
AP classes: (#)</p>
<p>I really appreciate it!</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a “high.” But getting into DGS/LAS isn’t that hard; I’d say the lows are:</p>
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<p>Solid B average or better. I think they take a closer look at rank. At the MINIMUM, I’d say top 45%. However I think most of the kids getting in will be top 25%.</p>
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<p>25-26ish</p>
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<p>I’m not sure how to measure this, but you should be somewhat involved</p>
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<p>You should be taking as many honors/AP/Dual Enrollment classes as possible to maximize your chances. But that holds true at any good university.</p>
<p>As far as rank and test scores go Illinois publishes its middle 50% ranges for each of its colleges: [U</a> of I Admissions: Freshman Admission Requirements](<a href=“http://admissions.illinois.edu/apply/requirements_freshman.html]U”>Page Not Found, Illinois Undergraduate Admissions)</p>
<p>Class rank is key and not GPA and if school does not rank they estimate. Also the published middle 50% ranges are for the particular college as a whole and they can vary from major to major. For example, sciences and math have higher ranges than the published A&S middle 50% ranges (in fact the physics major is listed in LAS but the department is in the engineering college and physics usual middle 50% range is even a tad higher than the engineering college’s middle 50% range as a whole. As to AP classes there is no hard and fast rule. They like to see honors and having two or more APs can help. EC’s is too broad an area to even speculate.</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>i’m like a percent away from being in top 10% of class, so your comments make me feel a lot better!</p>
<p>Thanks again, i really appreciate it!</p>
<p>also. when they look at class rank, are they looking at weighted or unweighted?
because they are serious about taking as many AP classes available, I would think they would base it off of weighted?
I don’t know really.
Thoughts?</p>
<p>I think they look at unweighted rank. The whole “weighted” system is dangerous because every school does it differently.
As long as they see that you’re taking hard classes, you’ll get credit for doing it.</p>
<p>They use the rank provided by the high school if it ranks regardless of whether that be weighted or unweighted but most high schools that rank, particularly in Illinois from which UIUC gets most of its applicants, use weighted class rank. Besides rank they look at class schedule and difficulty and having honors and APs is an important factor. If you are looking at what is most important it is rank, difficulty of class schedule and test score. The weight of ECs and essays then vary among the colleges depending upon where you stand in relation to others when those other factors are considered. If you are high in rank, test socres and course difficulty, then for most your essays really become something that can hurt if they are really bad but don’t add anything if they are good. On the other hand if you are borderline in the stats, very good essays or ECs may make the difference. The exception is the business college where you should consider essays very important and ECs important for all apllicants and many a 3.8 or higher unweighted GPA with a 34 ACT score or higher have been rejected by business because of other factors such as bad essays.</p>