<p>haha
I was recently admitted to Illinois' engineering school as a compsci major... I'm happy, but why does it have such a high acceptance rate? Is there a low yield rate, and if so, why is that? None of the other top ranked engineering schools (ie Stanford, MIT, CMU, Berkeley) have acceptances near Illinois'... what's up with that?</p>
<p>It’s self-selective - almost all of the applicants are highly qualified.</p>
<p>Honestly, the acceptance rate is irrelavant. Look at the middle 50% rates of those accepted. If everyone who applied had an act of 36, a good gpa, and rigorous classes, we’d have an acceptance rate much nearer 100% assuming there were seats to put the warm genius butts into.</p>
<p>i’ve heard actually the college of engineering has quite the selective process. nothing comparable to like MIT, but the kids who apply are well qualified and well researched the school so U of I want more of those kids in. but like MIT, Stanford, etc. have a lot of non-qualified kids apply “for the sake of it” just to throw off stats. I feel that you cannot base the acceptance rate on the quality of the program.</p>