I sincerely hope very few ppl have applied ea for UIUC or werent aware that UIUC offered EA!!
Well, doesn’t that mean they have a more holistic review? Idk
@wolfwing123 UIUC is a very holistic school! If you have strong ECs, good grades and great essays you have a strong chance of getting in. Good luck to everyone!!
Yup. I was expecting to see 1000s of posts on this thread by now. Looks like not many applied EA. Idk
-7 hours!
I applied RD, but all the best EA applicants!
May the odds be ever, in your favour. 
When we spoke with the UIUC admissions on their visit to my son’s high school, they did mention that other than high grades and ACT scores,their CS class has many students who have programmed for many years, created apps etc.Last year out of more than 4000 applicants they accepted only 200 in their COE out of which almost half were women. Getting into their COE CS is like getting into Stanford, you have to be pretty exceptional.
I honestly don’t think anyone needed to know that. I mean, all of the deadlines have passed anyway
Well, it’ll at least make some of us feel less dumb if we don’t make it.
I’m just really frustrated, after joining this forum all that’s happened is that I’ve gotten more stressed and regretted multiple things
COE CS at UIUC is pretty exceptional and is recognized in the industry as such.I think it should be one’s job to give the truth not false hopes.The main reason they ask candidates to declare a first and second choice? They do not want to end up like it is in California public colleges that everyone wants the same major and then cannot find the electives available and then end up spending 6 years instead of 4 in college.If one gets into any engineering field at UIUC consider yourself pretty good and set up nicely for the future, providing of course you put in the work.
What about other parts of the engineering school. Are the majors just as hard to get into at CS? Or not? I applied to mechanical engineering for my first choice major and Systems Engineering and Design for my second. What does the competition look like there?
People there’s no point discussing ‘competition’ at this point.Man up and accept your decision
When we went to UIUC this year and spoke to the engineering department there, they mentioned that they expect about 12,000 qualified applicants this year(according to them they get a thousand more applications every year) and they send out about 4000-4500 invites out of which they expect about 1675-1700 students to join. CS is really tough but the others are somewhat easier, hard to say though what each field is like, I don’t have those figures.My son has applied for their computer engineering program as his first choice and electrical as his second. These two are tough to get into as well but CS is crazy.It is by far their toughest class to get into and switching into it is tough as well because nobody drops out of CS to do another engineering field either.I’m not sure being in-state helps or does not(I guess it does) because they take many OOS as well as international students for the engineering school.I think only about 40% or so are in-state from the engineering school but I could be wrong about this.
Damn nice. It’ll be nice to study around smart CS students, though.
I code a lot (many languages and frameworks), and highschool sucked with nobody to share the interest with.
1st major CS 2nd majir Aero space…how difficult it is for international student
As I said hard for me to give you stats for each engineering field, aerospace is much easier, if that is your interest try Purdue as well,their program is well known,Neil Armstrong is from there.My son has gotten into Purdue already.
Whats your SAT Score ? @femalemechE98
@pray1974 Purdue doesn’t admit directly to major, right? I heard the engineering program is a rat race and weeds out many. I’m not sure though.
Sat score is 2299