^also I am from boston (gonna be quite a travel haha but i’m willing to!)
@monkeybunny4211 . Look at post # 51 & 52. & UIUC is a public university meaning not a lot of OOS. You might get offered DGS - Division of General Studies.
Also the stats are subpar for CS CoE.
Chance for CE in COE/UND in DGS
GPA:3.67 UW Upward trend throughout
ACT:30
Breakdown: 35 Math 33 English 30 Science 23 Reading
Principles of Engineering(PLTW) freshman year
Introduction to Engineering Design(PLTW) sophomore year
AP Stats/AP Chem/Anatomy/Precalc Junior Year
AP CS A/AP Calc AB/C++(college course) senior year
2 Honors Freshman year/1 honors sophomore year
OOS
Extracurriculars:
Link Crew
Tutored SE kids
Volunteered at Food Shelter
Good essay
Very compettitive high school(6th in California)
Chance for CE and EE
Gpa: 4.06 W 3.5UW
ACT: 34
9AP classes 15 Hns
OOS: Nj
Extracurriculars:
Tutored kids
library volunteering
Robotics
Football (1 yr Varsity 2 yr JV)
Top 10 NJ school
When are the decisions being released?
@jshu11 Friday 5 PM EST I believe…
Will SAT scores be converted? Because my converted scores are 1490-1500 with a 800 in Math and I’m an international applying without aid to CompSci!
@arjundupa Which major?
Hi guys! I’m an EA applicant from India.
Major: 1st choice-CS
2nd choice-CS+Ling
@infiniteCircle The CS+Ling course website talked about a lot of interdisciplinary subjects like how Cirri and Cortana use Natural Language Processing. But do students actually learn how CS and Linguistics work together or are both the subjects taught with little or no relation to each other?
And I have couple general questions:
How’s the social life in college? What about the city; is it a remote place or really urban like Chicago? How’s the weather year round(compare it with California cause I’ve applied to a couple UC schools). And lastly, how’s the diversity among students and faculty?
Kinda bummed out because according to statistics I probably won’t make the cut for the major let alone the major (cs+x).
On the bright side visiting the university was life changing since I met so many passionate students - which made me excited to apply to college.
I don’t know anyone who’s attended UIUC, but I can assure you that you will never go wrong going here.
I wish you all the best in getting admitted to your major!
@MerryLee @monkeybunny4211 Please refer to the link http://dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/#race
You can find a excel file “Fall 2016” under category of “Enrollment by Curriculum, Race, Sex, Residency”
For Fall 2016 undergraduate, total enrollment 33467; Illinois resident 24510; Non-Illinois resident 8957
So OOS is round 26.7% (this should include international). I don’t know wether this is high or low in comparison with other schools
Beware that this is “enrollment”, students that actually go to UIUC, not 'admitted", students that get offer
@VirajKumar If you look at the course listings you can see that the linguistics courses are upper division 300-400 courses that require computation (corpus linguistics, natural language processing, machine translation) so I think it’s safe to say that there is a strong relation with linguistics and comp sci.
Chance me please!
College of Business Finance Major - In state
ACT: 31 (32 super score)
GPA: 3.7143 (Strong upward trend, have legitimate explanation why it was lower freshman year) (also very competitive public HS)
AP/Honors: AP US Gov, AP Comparative Gov, AP Macro, AP Micro, VEI (honors biz course), AP French, AP Calc, AP Human
EC: President of French Honors Society, President of French Club, Director of Media for my JSA chapter (Debate club), DECA, Youth and Government, 2 jobs (20hr/wk), Photographer with a great portfolio and mini business doing senior portraits
Great essays that I spent a lot of time writing and editing
Visited UIUC and had one on one with the assistant admissions director
Thanks! 
I asked a teacher who’s son is applying to UIUC too and she said it is 4 o’clock, don’t hold me to that though haha
Pretty sure it’s 4pm CST. Decisions are 4 days away!!!
I am applying as a CS major from India.
1560 SAT
113 Toefl
92% in ICSE Board exam with 100% in Computer Science.
National Lever Tennis Player and Swimmer, Part of School Programming Team, School Tennis Captain, Volunteered at Animal Shelter, Volunteered in aftermath of Nepal Earthquake, Interned at a company which organizes science summer camps for children where i spearheaded education drives and organized a 2-week summer camp.
What are my chances of being admitted ? Also, will UIUC automatically consider me for a merit based scholarship
@VirajKumar, @dataengineer is right about CS+Ling, otherwise it wouldn’t be too useful if they didn’t tie them together somehow.
As for social life, like many aspects of college, is what you make it to be. If you attempt to make friends and join clubs, etc. you could have an amazing social life, but if you remain isolated, then of course you could find your friend circle pretty sparse. I was fortunate enough to have a great roommate and floor so I made friends pretty quickly and things turned out great. Urbana-Champaign is nothing like Chicago. Chicago is a large urban area, whereas Urbana/Champaign is a smaller town in the middle of central Illinois, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to do here. There are a lot of stores and restaurants. There are downtown areas with many stores and places to eat and do various activities. Some people find the area boring after a few years, but so far I don’t think that would be an issue for me personally. Weather-wise, well you could very easily look that up. California is obviously pretty warm year round while Urbana/Champaign is Warm during the Spring, Summer, and even Fall and quite cold during the Winter. It’s pretty typical Midwest weather. I’m from Illinois so I can’t speak too much about weather differences. Lastly, this is a large state school, so you can expect a lot of diversity in almost every aspect. I think that’s one of the great things about this school. You can make UIUC into what you want to experience. You could surround yourself with brilliant engineers and work on starting a company or getting aread on school work, you could blow off class and hang with friend, you could do a little of both or neither, it’s what you make of it and whatever kind of things you are interested in, you’ll find a group somewhere that’ll complement those interests.
Your decisions are 4 days away. Stop with the chance me threads. Anything anyone on here says about your chances is meaningless. The only opinion that matters in the admissions board and you’ll see that soon.
But will they automatically consider me for merit based scholarships or do i need to apply for those