<p>I'm extremely interested majoring in Computer Engineering at UIUC. I live in New Jersey, so I'm OOS. I would like to know if I'm on the right path to getting accepted. I took two honors classes as a Freshman, but took all honors classes in my Sophomore and Junior Years.</p>
<p>Freshman Year</p>
<p>Honors Algebra I---A
English I---A
Honors Biology---A
Gym---A+
Computer Applications---A
Spanish I---A+
World History---A+
Catholicism---A+
OVERALL GPA (Weighted) 4.31</p>
<p>Sophomore Year</p>
<p>Scripture---A+
Health/Drivers Ed.---A
Intro to Java Programming---A+
Honors English II---A
Honors American History I---A
Honors Algebra II---B+
Honors Spanish II---A
Honors Chemistry---B+
OVERALL GPA (Weighted) 4.31</p>
<p>Junior Year </p>
<p>Morality---A+
AP Computer Science---A+
Honors English III---A
AP American History---A
Honors Pre-Calculus---A+
Honors Spanish III---A+
Honors Physics---A+
OVERALL GPA (Weighted) 4.78</p>
<p>As you can tell, I did fairly well in Freshman year, dropped a bit in Sophomore year, and really did well in my Junior year. Senior year i will be taking AP Calculus (BC), AP European History, AP Government, and AP Physics C. Along with these grades, fairly strong EC's, and a strong ACT/SAT score, do you think I have a chance? Sorry for the long post.</p>
<p>Can you afford the OOS tuition + other costs at UIUC Engineering? $47,000 per year for 2011, likely higher for 2012 freshmen, and virtually no aid for out of staters.</p>
<p>Yes. Lucky for me the tuition is not too much of a problem. It’s affordable.</p>
<p>you’ll get in. waht’s “strong” sat/act?</p>
<p>I doubt you’ll have much trouble (if any) getting accepted.</p>
<p>I’m in-state and was accepted into their Computer Engineering program for this fall.</p>
<p>My post junior year GPA was 3.88 (on the 4.0 scale), I was top 5% of my class, and my ACT was also a 30 (never took SAT). I’m caucasian so I didn’t have anything like that working for me. Also, my ECs were non-existant to the say the least. </p>
<p>The one unusual thing I had working for me was that I took Calc 3 and Ordinary Differential Equations my senior year of high school (took BC Calc junior year). It was a dual credit course with the local community college. I also took AP Physics C, AP Gov (not comparative), regular spanish 3, and regular english iv during my senior year.</p>
<p>The one weird thing is that out of the 10-15 in my math class who applied to U of I, about 4-5 of them got deferred. They were all eventually accepted (most with engineering majors), but I just found it strange because they all had stellar ECs. Some of them were even captains of sports teams.</p>
<p>Assuming you get accepted, there are a couple things I think I should point out:</p>
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<li><p>It’s good that you took 3 years of Spanish. It only takes 2 years of a foreign language to get into the College of Engineering, but unless you have 3 or more you will have to take it again at U of I (even if you’re not studying the language).</p></li>
<li><p>If your English ACT subscore is >32 you don’t have to take the stupid freshman composition class.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t stress out over Gov or Euro. You can get the maximum allowed credit with 4’s on each, and even then you only get a combined 6 credit hours.</p></li>
<li><p>Both portions of Physics C (mechanics and E&M) and BC Calc all requires 5’s for the maximum allowed credit. 5’s on both parts of Physics C will place you in Thermodynamics and Quantumdynamics (usually taken together for 1 semester) and then you’re done with Physics! A 5 on BC will put you in Calc 3.</p></li>
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<p>computerfreak99, Thank you so much for the info, as well as your valuable advice.</p>
<p>I had a weighted GPA much less than that and a 31 ACT with virtually no extracurriculars and was accepted to engineering.</p>
<p>I had a weighted GPA much less than that and a 31 ACT with virtually no extracurriculars and was accepted to engineering.</p>
<p>Very nice stats, I don’t think they have a reason to not accept you. Plus, I don’t know what’s with UIUC (in general) accepting New Jersey students by flocks (I’m one of them haha).</p>
<p>With the state’s financial woes and the corresponding cutbacks in university funding, out of staters bearing cash are being welcomed with open arms.</p>
<p>You are definitely in with a 30 ACT score and your GPA.</p>