Would my online application show what scholarships have been offered to me, or does it come with my Notice of Admission?
Decision: Accepted - College of Business Unassigned
Stats
ACT: 28 Composite, 30 Reading, 30 Science, 28 Math, 24 English, 10 Writing
SAT: N/A
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 3.7 W / 3.2 UW
Rank: Top 12%
Other stats: 4 years Varsity Tennis. 7 AP’s many Honors classes. Chess Team captain. Started investing club, Math team, Future Business Leaders of America, National Technical Honors Society, History Honors Society, and Key club
Subjective:
Essays: The best essays I have ever written
Teacher Recs: None
Counselor Rec: Great was a favorite
Hook (if any): 1st generation to go to college. URM
Location/Person:
State or Country: Illinois
School Type: Small, Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Other Factors: Essay helped me get in even though I was in the bottom 50% of applicants for the College of Business
General Comments:
Received 5k/year scholarship
has anyone gotten the notice of admission letter?
@gsants Congratulations! Most I’ve ever heard the university give other than a full ride.
@LeeEnfield Seems like it, however I’m not sure. I really just want some money if anything, really.
@bjjvja27 I haven’t
@emshadez, that could be $40K over 4 years.
Letter are online now.
Our admission letter is not up yet.
Decision: Rejected - College of Engineering - Computer Science
Accepted Alternate Major - James Scholar General Studies
Stats
ACT: 34 Composite, 35 Reading, 36 Science, 34 Math, 29 English, 8 Writing
SAT: 2230 (800 critical reasoning, 780 math, 650 Writing)
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: 4.3 W / 3.7 UW
Rank: Top 6%
Other stats: 4 years scholastic bowl. 3 years intensive volunteerism local food pantry
Subjective:
Essays: This is subjective
Teacher Recs: Great
Counselor Rec: None
Hook (if any):
Location/Person:
State or Country: Illinois
School Type: Medium Size, Well Rated, Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Other Factors:
General Comments:
I think lack of extra curricular activities hurt as well as a C+ my sophomore year. Also, writing scores pulled down my overall test scores.
@CSmajorQ Your stats were better than mine, but somehow I was accepted. UIUC weighs your essays pretty heavily. Could that, along with only a few EC, have made it harder for you to get into the college of Engineering?
@LeeEnfield, UIUC accepts by major. Last year, CS in Engineering was rejecting applicants who were more qualified than the average admit to some other majors in Engineering. I imagine this year was the same. Also, if you looked at the results thread last year, almost all applicants who got in to CS in Engineering were already coding for money (hired as programmers or developing mobile apps) or placed highly in some coding competition or were female or were URM. Sometimes some combination of the above. There were a handful who got in to CS in Engineering who didn’t fit in to any of the above categories. They had something like a 36 ACT.
@LeeEnfield, I’m sure there are many things they take into consideration. I could ponder all day the reasons why, but not knowing exactly what they were looking for in terms of scores, cultural and geographic diversity, essays and extra curriculars, it would only be speculation. Of course it always stings to be rejected, but I have a couple of great alternate options and I’m sure things will work out for me.
Let’s do this m8s.
Accepted - Chemical Engineering - LAS
Objective:
ACT (breakdown): 34 composite, 34 E, 33 R, 33 E/W, 35 S, 32 M (oops)
SAT I (breakdown): 2160- 770 M, 720 CR, 670 W one sitting
SAT II: 750 Math 2 and Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91 or something (catholic school=religion classes that shouldn’t count)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/122
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang (5), Calc AB (4), Chem (4), CS, Physics 1, English Lit, US Gov, Calc BC
Senior Year Course Load: Spanish 3H, AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, Econ/AP US Gov, AP Physics 1, APCS, Religion 4 (lol)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a unless NM commended counts gg
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (President/Co-Founder of STEM Club), FIRST Robotics, Varsity Swim, Club Volleyball, NHS, SNHS, Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, CSF, Mu Alpha Theta
Job/Work Experience: Receptionist, Social Media Marketing/Promotional Material Designer
Volunteer/Community service: Peer tutor, Service clubs, Random volunteering
Summer Activities: sleeping and playing on the computer lmao
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8ish? No idea tbh.
I think they don’t use letters of rec.
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): California
School Type: Private, Religious
Ethnicity: Asian/White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: lol too high to qualify for anything
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Female in engineering? Dad went to grad school at Illinois.
Reflection:
Strengths: I think I was just ok. Sort of surprised I got accepted with honors and scholarships. The honors is probably because Chem E is in LAS (god bless).
Weaknesses: Everything was just ok. Nothing particularly special.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Hooks probably.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to Twin Cities, UofArizona, Ann-Arbor, San Jose State (lol), Cal State East Bay (lol), West Virginia Tech (lol)
General Comments:
I’m really happy with how my decision turned out! Hope everyone is happy with theirs 
Hope for future applicants who don’t have amazing stats:
Accepted General Studies
ACT: 29
GPA UW 3.2 W 4.06
Pretty normal extra cirriculars: over 100 volunteer hours, some work experience, 2 clubs
Essays: I think my essays were OK. I wrote a personal one that was definitely stronger. Even though I proofread my essays 1000 times, I noticed a slight mistake in one after I applied. It didn’t hurt me in the end.
hooks: I think my hook is that I go to a competitive high school, also upward trend in grades and all honors/AP classes
Decision Form
Decision: [ color = green][ b] ACCEPTED: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, LAS
[ b][ u]Objective: **
ACT: Composite: 28, Highest English: 32, Highest Math: 31, Highest Reading: 29, Highest Science: 28
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
Weighted: 4.55 / 5.00
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top ten percentile, 35 / 497
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP gov (2), AP Micro (3), APUSH(4), AP junior english (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Senior English, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, Honors Spanish 4, AP Computer Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/A
[ b][ u]Subjective: **
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Cross Country, wrestling, track and field, gymnastics, powerlifting, junior class council, senior class council, cheerleading, brazilian jiu jitsu, judo, varsity club, mathletes, pep club, show, WYSE, prom committee
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10/10, essays really reflected me as an individual and showed who I am on paper. My AP English teacher helped me on it a lot.
Teacher Rec #1: N/A
Teacher Rec #2: N/A
Counselor Rec: N/A
Additional Rec: N/A
[ b][ u]Other: **
State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Very high, respected high school in the nation
Ethnicity: pacific islander
Gender: male
Income Bracket: ~$100,000 (only one parent working)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation going to an American University (parents are immigrants),
[ b][ u]Reflection: **
Strengths:Essays were a huge strength
Weaknesses: ACT score
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I got accepted because of my essays, my grades, class rank, and basically everything except my ACT score.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Lol I only applied to one other school. I got accepted into Purdue University, West Lafayette for chem E
[ b]General Comments: **
Being in state helped a lot, but these personal essays are what really matter. The admissions officers really want to see who you are on a piece of paper.
Also, I am an LAS James Scholar
I think I should post this just to help out those in the future looking for this as a reference. These helped me quite a bit to calm my nerves way back when I was applying and waiting for my decisions 
Decision: [color = green]Accepted - Chemistry - LAS[/color] - Second choice major
Decision: [color = red]Rejected - Nuclear engineering[/color] - First choice major
**Objective: **
ACT (breakdown): 32 Composite, 28E/31M/35R/34S Essay 10, E/E composite 28(Sep 2014)
SAT I (breakdown): 1790 Composite, 550R/740M/500W (Nov 2013) I sent both of these scores
Both the ACT and SAT were one sitting.
SAT II: Math II:730/760, Physics 730/760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Unknown, Canadian School, I think an 88% average
IB (place score in parenthesis): 33 when applied
- IB English SL 6
- IB Mathematics SL 5
- IB Chemistry HL 5
- IB Geography HL 4
- IB Biology HL 5
- IB Spanish SL 5
Senior Year Course Load:
- IB English SL
- IB Mathematics SL
- IB Chemistry HL
- IB Geography HL
- IB Biology HL
- IB Spanish SL
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Science fair “Outstanding Engineering project award”
**Subjective: **
Extracurriculars: (I’m just going to clump them together as I’ve already typed them up for a ‘chance me thread’ a while back.
- Built a farnsworth nuclear fusion reactor with a friend as a summer project, entered the regional science fair and won an “Outstanding engineering project” award in my age (senior) category. Sugarcoated this as the “project leader/co-founder” when entering my ECs.
- Co-created (with my brother) two iPhone/android applications and published it on the iPhone appstore and the Google Play store.
- Founder/leader of the school’s App/programming club. Club has been running since September after the launch of our second app (which explains the delay).
- Violin learner for >7 years, passed the music theory and level 8 violin examinations
- Golf player (no sports teams or varsity, recreational) for >5 years
- Symphony orchestra second/third violinist
- Did a research project at a university and wrote an essay on it in chemistry for my IB Diploma program, had a great experience and wrote about it in my essays.
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100 volunteer hours.
- Volunteered with my city with over 50 documented hours within, initiated several citywide events with them and is currently on the steering committee of a major city event.
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
First choice major essay: (nuc. engineering)
- Wrote about the process of building that nuclear reactor: how initially I thought it was simple to build one because I understood the concepts and theories behind one, but only to learn that it was way more complicated. We ended up succeeding but had to go through an extra 8 months learning the additional theories behind the reactor (power supply, vacuum chamber, etc). Wrote about how introspection (to avoid arrogance) was important to me.
Second choice major essay: (chem)
- Wrote about my experiences about conducting a research project at a university and how exciting it was to feel as if I’ve “synthesized knowledge” myself out of data. It was quite a different experience to be able to come up with my own hypothesis and conclusion rather than following one that was already given (school labs, for instance).
Tell us about yourself essay:
- Wrote about my old background being extremely homogenous and thinking that everyone had the same opinions, which harbored a black and white perspective on opinions: there is a “correct” one and a “wrong” one. Then I moved to a more culturally diverse area and during an in-class discussion, realized that opinions that differ can both be “right”, which created tolerance to different ideas and realizing that other perspectives can also synthesize opinions that are “correct” as opposed to my traditional thought that there must be a right and wrong opinion.
**Other: **
Country (if international applicant): Canada
School Type: Public, IB School
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Top 0.05%+ of the world
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 3rd gen college
**Reflection: **
Strengths: ECs, ACT score
Weaknesses: preeeety ■■■■■■ grades; my essays were also ~150 words over the word count. oh well
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: ECs, IB, Essay content
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: University of Toronto, Queen’s University (Canadian universities)
**General Comments: **
Don’t go over your word count or else you’re going to be worried and regretting that you shouldn’t have done that. It will leave doubts if you were deferred/denied/rejected/waitlisted. Best to eliminate all sources of doubt!
Decision: ** Accepted - CS- engineering **
ACT (breakdown): 35, M35/E35/W35/S33 (didn’t send the later better one, doesn’t worth it)
SAT I (breakdown): 2100/2160, M720,800/ R650,660/ W730,700
SAT II: Math 800, Physics 800, US History 800 (doesn’t mean anything)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97 W/4.65
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A, 4 to 5% probably
AP (place score in parenthesis): all 5, Physics B, Eur History, Calculus, English Lang, Chinese, Micro Eco, Macro Eco, US History, Biology
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP: Chemistry, Physics C, Stats, US Gov, English Lit; non AP: Computer
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[ b][ u]Subjective: **
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): nothing impressive
Job/Work Experience: summer intern at a university
Volunteer/Community service: >300 hrs
Summer Activities: a few camps
Essays (rating 1-10, details): might be 7
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Canadian but live in Illinois
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: >150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Strengths: GPA, I guess
Weaknesses: SAT I score, no Major Awards
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: GPA is good enough for UIUC, they don’t have time to exam your EC
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Decision: Accepted - Computer Science in College of Engineering
ACT (breakdown): 32, M36,35/E31,34/R30,30/S31,30 (2 scores)
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take
SAT II: These aren’t considered, didn’t send in any.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.81 W/4.12
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Like top 7% probably
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send any scores
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP: Physics C, Calc BC, US Gov, English Lit, Computer Science Class at University - Dual-enrollement
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel ISEF Awards
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): leadership positions in clubs, research (not in comp sci)
Volunteer/Community service: about 500 hours
Summer Activities: engineering camp, leadership camp
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7-8, emphasize how the UIUC degree will make a difference and how you plan to use your computer science degree in the future.
State (if domestic applicant): Out-of-state
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: >150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Strengths: Awards, EC’s, essays maybe?, emails back and forth with admissions rep
Weaknesses: ACT score kinda but I think they place emphasis on math so that helps, GPA could have been better, more computer science activities/programs in high school would really help.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Honestly looking at the stats of many people accepted in CS on CC, lots of people may think it’s very hard to get in. It not easy, but you can do it. I mean I thought the same and I am from one of the hardest groups to get in - Out-of-state indian male majoring in CS at UIUC. Only advice I can give you is to just stay committed and let your passion shine in your application!
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Georgia Tech Acceptance
Decision: Accepted - Electrical Engineering w/ James Scholar - College of Engineering
**Objective: **
ACT (breakdown): C33: E32 (34 on first attempt), M32, R33, S35, W33.
SAT IIs: UIUC doesn’t consider.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0UW/4.67W at time of app.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2%.
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang (4), Calc BC (5), Chemistry, English Lit, Statistics, Spanish Lang.
Senior Year Course Load: The APs w/out scores, US Gov, Calc 3, Linear Algebra.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 4-year NROTC Scholarship (received mid-October).
**Subjective: **
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years Varsity ice hockey (MVP award, Alt. captain, Captain), 4 years community service club (officer, president), 2 years NHS and SNHS.
Job/Work Experience: 3 years Lifeguard (Leadership Award), 2 years WSI, 1 year LGI.
Volunteer/Community service: 4 years with local organization similar to Boys and Girls Club. 4 years in school’s community service club (officer, president).
Summer Activities: 50+ hrs/week working, 2 internships at two different universities.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 7.5-8/10. Essay #1-Described internship experience and how I would use my major to pragmatically impact the world in the future. Essay #2-what I’ve learned from my experiences as a lifeguard, swim instructor, and lifeguard instructor.
Teacher Rec #1: Recs are not considered by UIUC.
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
**Other: **
State (if domestic applicant): Out-of-State
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >$125,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.
**Reflection: **
Strengths: ECs, GPA.
Weaknesses: ACT math score, essays could have been better written.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Objective stats.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted- my state’s flagship, USNA.
**General Comments: ** NROTC at U of I is my “Plan B” should anything happen between now and I-Day that would make me ineligible for the Naval Academy. UIUC’s campus looks amazing but is quite spread out!
Decision: **Accepted - CS + Anthropology - LAS**
**Objective: **
ACT (breakdown): didn’t take
SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (710 CR, 770 M, 790 W)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 760 Chem, 720 Bio M
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), Calc BC (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 3 AP’s 1 Honor, 3 regular classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
**Subjective: **
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching band (section leader), varsity track & field
Volunteer/Community service: music at senior centers
Summer Activities: volunteered at some summer camps
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 8
**Other: **
State (if domestic applicant): OOS
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
**Reflection: **
Strengths: female, scores
Weaknesses: EC’s, not much CS in there
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: No one I know of applied for this major haha
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Purdue, SCU, UCI, deferred UMich.
**General Comments: **
If I go I want to transfer to CS + Linguistics. Congrats to everyone else!
Wow, some really strong applicants on this page. Congratulations on your acceptances!