<p>The collegeboard says 83%of students are In-State while 17% are out-of state. What are the differences between an applicant applying In-state vs Out-of-State? </p>
<p>I feel like a lot of this depends on how many instate applicants versus OOS applicants there are each year (this is information that I do not have). Living in Pennsylvania, UIUC is virtually unknown, thus, there are probably much fewer applications from PA than from Illinois.</p>
<p>Say, hypothetically, there were 100 applicants and 99 of them were IS while the 1 person was OOS. Wouldn't these number imply the OOS applicant have a much greater chance of acceptance?</p>
<p>Conversely, if 50 applicants were from Illinois while 50 were from OOS, the numbers would imply a clear advantage to applying IS.</p>
<p>blah... can anyone help clear this up for me? Is it easier to gain acceptance applying IS or OOS... is it a significant difference?</p>
<p>I think there might be an approximate proportion for each student body(IS, OOS, International) that has been fixed,with a little bit flaxibility but not much, by the school. I guess you’re most likely to be put in an independent pool for all the OOS applicants. I dont think there will be dramasticlly more OOSs apply this time than before. So yer chance to be admitted will not be much different from last year. Last year, I heard that the IS and OOS will have almost the same chance, while the internationals are facing a little tougher criteria.
So you don’t need to worry too much about that. By the way, are you sort of interested in Kungfu, or are you chinese American？just out of curiosity. ^_^</p>
<p>lol, so have u got a chinese name actually? your username sounds like saying “Kungfu master” in sort of Hongkong English, haha. (no offense if u r originally from HK)
You want any suggestions for the quintessential chinese? whata bout ChineseMenSoccer?
Anyway,just get a little serious, go ahead to apply, prob you will see quite a few east asians (koreans,chinese)there if you finally choose engineering.
Good luck</p>
<p>Actually, OOS students are evaluated the same as IS students. The average ACT score for in state admissions is 32 I believe, at it was when I got in 2 years ago. However, the average OOS student ACT score for admissions was 28.</p>
<p>The in state enrollment, as big as it is, is extremely competitive because tuition is really low and the university is so well known for its academics and programs. So everyone in their right mind who went to hs in Illinois applies there. Admissions at U of I has no choice but to be more selective with in-state students because of the shear number of applicants.</p>
<p>all i can say from experience and as in IS future student is… everyone here applies to the school as a safety school or a school cause of stats in engineering and business… my school has about 30-50students going here… OOS get admitted to but the main problem is the tuition difference alot of OOS are very smart and with OOS as much as an ivy league school many choose that over this… </p>
<p>Illinois is not a safety for the majority of applicants, but thier engineering is pretty self selective. I had a 2200+ sat and got in OOS, but am not going because of thier exorbitant OOS tuition/room/board. It is not hard to get into Illinois OOS because that is where they get the big money from. This is not to say that thier engineering is not top notch, because it is.</p>
<p>Kungfumasta- Sorry, there was a small typo in my previous post. Those stats came from US News and World Report if I remember correctly, but that was 2 years ago. Im not quite sure if admissions has changed a lot since then. I still believe that it is easier for OOS students to get accepted to U of I than IS students.</p>
<p>When they only enroll 10% out of state applicants don’t you think it is harder for the out of state kids to compete for those few spots? Are you saying that there are just not that many out of state applicants? I would like to see the facts to back that up…I think it is just as difficult to get in out of state because there are very few spots to be given out!</p>
<p>The lower percentage of OOS and international students admitted simply reflects that the percentage of those who apply that are OOS and international is about the same lower percentage. The actual admission rate for OOS/International is usually close to and actually a bit higher than in-state which mainly reflects that OOS/International when they do apply often have somewhat higher average stats than in-state (i.e., those with lower stats usually choose just not to apply if OOS or international) and UIUC evaluates in-state and OOS on the same basis for admission (meaning the OOS don’t need higher stats than in-state to be admitted). UIUC has more or less thought about admitting more OOS/International to help generate more income but basically that is an idea the state and public opposed and it is really not necessary in the general scheme of things because they generally admit a large percentage of OOS/international as they do in-state just by evaluating both based on the same criteria. UIUC does have its financial difficulties as every state college does now because of declining (or in UIUC’s case, mainly not rising) money from the state. UIUC is doing better than many others (such as the UCs) but like others some projects get put on hold or some hiring is not done because funding is not yet available. One way they have increased their income somewhat is to increase the class size (now averaging about 7500 hundred freshman a year when a number of years ago it was closer to 6500. Their goal is to actually get that back to about 6500 but questionable they will do that during the current financial crisis.</p>
<p>Considering all the competitive students applying from the chicago metro area, not surprise with competitiveness. I have interest in the school, but looking into their out of state aid… with OSU-Columbus aid estimater, they would provide my need but thats after about 25k in loans for one school year.</p>