<p>I was curious as to how difficult it is to get into the College of LAS. Since they accept well over 3,000 kids as compared to 800-1000 in the College of Engineering and Businesss.</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>Easier than engineering or business. Some 2004 admit/enroll, middle 50% class rank/ACT figures (rounded numbers): </p>
<p>University-wide: 15,000/7300, 81-94/26-30
LAS: 8,800/4,000, 83-95/26-30
Eng: 2300/1200, 87-97/29-33
Bus: 1100/550, 86-96/27-31</p>
<p>For the first time in over 15 years, the number of total applications went down, about a 250 decrease to 22,000, the admit rate went up from 63% to 68% (intentional because they wanted to enroll more freshman), total enrollment of freshman was 7250, about 450 more than last year. Asian applications, admissions and enrollment had a huge increase and they now make up about 17% of freshman class as compared to 11% last year. All other minorites saw a decrease with African-Americans falling 30% (and falling from about 9% of the total freshman class to 5.5%). In engineering, the number of women fell 15% and, for the first time in 25 years, the total number of women freshman in engineering fell below 200 (and by a substantial margin to 170 out of 1200 total enrollees). The university has already announced that it intends to restructure its efforts for minority applications and admissions. Thus, if you are a URM (including a woman applying to engineering) who is applying now for 2005, your chances for admission have likely gone up somewhat.</p>
<p>Do you happen to know what or an estimate of the acceptance rate of LAS is ?</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>68.4% for 2004, 62.6% 2003.</p>
<p>Wouldn't the lower acceptance rate of engineering/business offset the acceptance rate of LAS because they admit so many more people.</p>
<p>Not really. LAS makes up close to 60% of all applicants and admittees and thus comes close to setting the admission rate for the entire university itself. Any lower rates in Bus and Eng are offset by much higher rates in Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Education where the admission rates approach 75 to 80%. Moreover, the admission rates for engineering and business are not that low, both above 50%. UIUC, in its application and recruiting materials goes out of its way to tell prospective applicants the ranges, means and medians of class rank and test scores of its admittees for its various colleges and that applicants are expected to be close to those ranges. It purposefully does that, successfully, to discourage applicants from applying unless they are close to the ranges identified. Thus, its admission rates for a program may look high but it is admitting from a pool that is generally self-selective to begin with.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. It's much appreciated.</p>