**Official UIUC Regular Decision Admission Results Thread 2017** - Release 02/15

<p>DS Accepted - Mathematics</p>

<p>UW GPA 3.62 weighted 3.82. 32 ACT, SAT II Math 770, Biology 640 (sophomore…). All AP senior schedule. Very good ECs. </p>

<p>He’s happy, but now comes the money crunch - we’re OOS.</p>

<p>Accepted to:
Willamette
WPI</p>

<p>Waiting on a bunch more…</p>

<p>Next steps include Placement tests, making sure final transcripts and any AP scores are sent, sign up for summer registration. The homework is to look over the schedule for Fall 2013, examine the suggested course matrix for your college program (usually found on the program website, see what, if any gen eds your APs and ACT English subscore(33 or better fulfills the RHET 105 gen ed), then attempt to create a potential schedule on paper to be able to interact with your advisor (at summer registration) more competently. Rank housing choices too.</p>

<p>OMG YOU GUYS!!! I’m about to cry!!! I was admitted!!! I’m so freaking happy!!! Congrats to those who made it and to those who didn’t, you’re future is bright and you’re already awesome for taking the next step after high school and applying to college.</p>

<p>@BenTheHokie woah dude compared to your stats, I’m surprised I was accepted! lol</p>

<p>I got in also! But not for the business major "/, But still admitted :)))</p>

<p>COngrats to everyone (accepted or rejected). rishav17 didnt make it finally did he??</p>

<p>So if you was not accepted into your curriculum. Can you just take the courses of what you would’ve probably have taken if you were accepted and just transfer next semester or year?</p>

<p>accepted! my sat scores weren’t spectacular (1940; biology e: 650; math level 2: 720) meh, but i got in anyways. oh and btw i’m an international student from Indonesia and i’m taking business. congrats to everyone who got in! and if you didn’t, don’t be sad because everything really happens for a reason :)</p>

<p>Admitted in ME</p>

<p>Weakness:
3.54 gpa UW (3.8ish this semester)
Not many extracirriculars</p>

<p>Strengths:
2260 SAT, 800 Math II, 750 Chem
500+ hours volunteering</p>

<p>GL everyone</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 570 Math, 610 Writing, 710 CR
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: 540 Math I, 600 Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.4
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP English Lang, AP Stats, AP Psych (haven’t taken tests yet)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Psych and then core classes that everyone has to take
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Helped manage my family restaurant starting in 8th grade. Eventually won a national award in a competition for top Chinese restaurants. Also involved in Peer Leadership at school where two other seniors and I teach a group of 9th graders twice a week.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: See above.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Didn’t mention any
[</em>] Summer Activities: Worked at my uncle’s restaurant
[<em>] Essays: Good. Very straight-forward and to the point.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: “Glowing” - as my AP English teacher said
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Outstanding
[</em>] Additional Rec: Good
[li] Interview: n/a</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>]Income Bracket: > $20,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My extracurriculars. I was able to tie my work experience into why I wanted to do Economics.
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA/test scores
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I have no idea. I worked hard and hoped for the best. I’m glad it worked out.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: n/a. This was my first notification.</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:[list]
n/a</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted Electrical Engineering</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (770 M 780 R 770 W)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II 740 Chemistry
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 6%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calculus AB 5, AP US History 4, AP Statistics 5, AP Chemistry 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature & Composition, AP Physics B, AP Psychology, AP Micro/Macroeconomics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2nd place Science Fair, Toshiba ExploraVision Honorable Mention, AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: NASA paid internship
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~200 hours volunteer
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays: Good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1 good, 1 average
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Average
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul][ b]Other

[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>]Income Bracket: >$200,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Reflection
[li] Strengths: Test scores[/li][</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
General Comments: Really excited!</p>

<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 700M,600R,640W
[ *] ACT: Didn’t send I didn’t think they’d be eager to admit a physics major who got a 25 on the science section haha
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 91/284
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): None yet
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics B, AP Calc AB, AP World, anat regular english, etc.
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nope
[ /list][ b]Subjective:
[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Rowing, Volunteer coach for rowing, other stuff especially with rowing
[ *] Job/Work Experience: None
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 100+hrs
[ *] Summer Activities: Rowing
[ *] Essays: did their job
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other

[ *] State (if domestic applicant):CT
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA! USA! USA!
[ *] School Type: Public, good
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender:M
[ ]Income Bracket: personal
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ b]Reflection

[ *] Strengths:Commitment to rowing, GPA?? hahaha
[ *] Weaknesses: Too many
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I flipped a coin
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Have yet to hear back from anywhere else
[ b]General Comments:
Pretty freakin excited. Not likely but definitely possible I’ll be going here. For next year’s applicants: Many of the people who post their acceptances on CC are in the upper percentile in regards to stats for those admitted. Don’t feel so discouraged and don’t think that you haven’t got a chance.</p>

<p>[ size=+2] [ color=green] [ b]Decision: Accepted (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) ** [/color] [/size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 730/770/710 - 2210 Total
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 720 Chem
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): not sure
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): Predicted 38
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:
[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays: Somewhat Okay
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other

[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant): Europe
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ ]Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing
[ b]Reflection

[ *] Strengths: SAT? and GPA?
[ *] Weaknesses: I didnt really show any interest
[ ] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: hmm my scores were Okay
[ ] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Waiting for CMU and UC schools
[ b]General Comments:
YAY!</p>

<p>Wayyyyyy to sad to do any of that color garbage, but I’ll post anyway</p>

<p>Accepted to DGS not business</p>

<p>uw gpa 3.27 (at a top 10 in the country academic school where a 93 is a B 86 is a C etc) so roughly a 3.6, and i’m sure a 4.0 at the local public high school. No rank but top 10%</p>

<p>33 ACT (33 30 36 33) 35 SS (35 34 36 33)</p>

<p>Good amount and variety of EC’s over 400 hours of CS</p>

<p>AP English lit teacher said my college essay was “the best one she has ever read” the other 2 were very well written as well</p>

<p>so sad, kids with way worse stats accepted from my school.</p>

<p>I’m not gonna do the coloured stuff too (Its 4:30 here)</p>

<p>Accepted Computer Science Eng(First choice :D)</p>

<p>SAT:-2100(700CR,760M,640W)
SAT 2:-760M2,780PHY
Percentile Rank-Top 5% (biggest CBSE school in my city)
Awards:-Duke Of Edinborough Award for Young People(All 3 levels), Trinity GUildhall Piano Grade 6, I was/am Quiz team Captain so we won loads of stuff there.
Extracurriculars:-You can Probably guess from my awards. But added to those:- MUNs and Elocution competitions etc.
Work Exp:-Some really boring work in an office, helping out set up meetings and schedules. ~100hrs
Recs:-Good
State-Foreign Country
Country:-I’m living in India but an American Citizen.
Ethnicity:-Indian
Strengths:-All my stuff were good overall, nothing spectacular but a good balance of grades, standardized testing score and good EC’s so a well rounded app.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted Business unassigned </p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I : 2000 (760 M 640 R 600w)
SAT II: NA
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Not quite sure. Decent A Level grades
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 20%
AP (place score in parenthesis): NA
IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): local awards</p>

<p>[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School Tenpin Bowling Vice Captain, chorister, semi-professional singer
Job/Work Experience: 2 years of military service?
Volunteer/Community service: 200 hours volunteer
Essays: Suffice to say sufficiently decent
Teacher Recommendation: none </p>

<p>[ b]Other</p>

<p>Country (if international applicant): Singapore
<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian [<em>]
Gender: Male[</em>]</p>

<p>Reflection[<em>] Strengths: Test scores, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: A level grades if anything…
General Comments: stoked! Now comes the most challenging part - money…</p>

<p>Anyone else having trouble setting up a NET ID?</p>

<p>We need to get our physical acceptance letters with Admit IDs before we can set up a NET ID I think.</p>

<p>Ahh thanks elunium I was thinking the same but it seemed illogical to me at first cause our IDs were on the top of the checklist.</p>

<p>ACCEPTED TO INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING !</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 710 CR, 760 M, 790 WR (2260 total)
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II: 800 chem, 800 physics, 800 math IIC
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): weighted 3.9-4.0ish
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):world history (5), chemistry (5), calculus AB (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: ap stats, ap calc BC, ap physics, microeconomics, literature, etc
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:
[list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): nothing notable
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: none noted.
[ *] Summer Activities: travelling and research
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: i don’t think UIUC considers recommendations so idk
[ *] Counselor Rec: standard
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other

[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: private/religious
[ *] Ethnicity: asian
[ *] Gender: M
[ ]Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ b]Reflection

[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses: no particular strengths
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Rejected ED to my dream school, which I will not disclose :frowning:
[ b]General Comments:**</p>