<p>My dear daughter is calmly waiting for 5:00 pm CST Friday, unlike her mother who is freaking out because I think if she doesn't get into UIUC, she will go to UC-Boulder. If she goes to UIUC, chances are she will move back to the Chicago area. If she goes to Boulder, she will either stay out there and we will never see her, or she will meet some guy from California and move there and we will never see her, lol.</p>
<p>Anyway, she shared the Naviance website with me this morning, I think just to ruin my day. It appears that the average accepted GPA and ACT from her high school into UIUC is 4.05 and 30, respectively. She has a 3.5 and 29. I know she is on the bubble as far as acceptance based on the general application population in ACES, as was her brother, but now I really am freaking out. I mean, sick to my stomach, I won't be able to sleep until Friday. She, of course, is still very zen.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with Boulder. Many return–eventually. In your 20’s you should live in California and maybe even London or Austin. Plenty of time to get back to Glencoe and settle down. And you won’t have that longing to get away again.</p>
<p>It is really irrellevant what the high school’s average accepted ACT and GPA is for admission into UIUC, since students are accepted into individual programs within individual colleges at the state flagship. Your daughter’s ACT is at the higher end of the mid 50% ACT range of those admitted to ACES last year. You mention your GPA, but not your daughter’s rank (HSPR) in her class. Those in the top 82%-95% were representative of the mid-50% of those admitted to ACES last year. That doesn’t mean if your daughter’s HSPR is lower, that she won’t be admitted directly to ACES, but if her HSPR is near the lower bounds she has a 50-50 chance of ACES, and a better chance of acceptance to the division of general studies (DGS). Good Luck.</p>
<p>You really have to look at that Naviance info. Don’t look at averages since that lumps together all the ACT scores- the high end kids with 34’s that overachieved and threw off the averages. What you should look at is the graph. Plot where your daughter lands with her GPA and ACT score and see who was admitted with those stats. And even with that you have to consider what colleges these students were applying to. Business and engineering are much more competitive than ACES. Also, UIUC does look at the whole package, ECs etc.
One more day and you will find out…and daughters always come back! Keep us posted!</p>
<p>@barrons - that’s a pretty good trick. How’d you figure out we’re from Glencoe? You are right about Colorado. I would have loved to have gone out there for undergrad, but alas, I was stuck in the midwest because that’s where my parents wanted me to go, lol!.</p>
<p>I appreciate all the encouraging words. It does make the waiting easier.</p>
<p>Glencoe just popped into my head as the typical good Chicago suburb where kids often can afford to consider going to out of state schools. Maybe it was a sub-conscious “Risky Business” linkage with all the focus on going to college-often out of state. I spent some years in Evanston so I’m very familiar with the north shore suburbs and lived there during the series of John Hughes films that seemed to all be set in that area or a place very much like it. And I did spend a year in Boulder and one semester at CU; just because I liked the campus/city.</p>
Keep us posted!</p>