<p>I am soon moving to Skokie, Illinois, and I have a question about three public colleges, two of which don't have a forum here. I am a future accounting major, and I am looking at UIC, UIUC, and NIU. All of these have top accounting programs... From what I seen and heard from UIC and UIUC's, but not NIU's website, it says, "the average admission stats to the college of business are blank gpa and a blank "ACT." The ACT average score makes it seem that you apply to a specific college, not the university. Everywhere else, IU, UMich, and other Big 10 schools and everywhere else, you apply AFTER YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. Is this info right? Are all public Illinois schools like this? I'm scared because I have a 3.3 GPA from a TOP private school, and a rank in the 70 percentile. I swear if you were in the top 70% at my school; you're smart as hell! I had class with daughters of kings, and many other spoiled, royal brats. You get the idea... This is scary, because I heard that Illinois schools mostly care about RANK. When I transfer to a public school, my rank is going to be horrible. I know I'm screwed for UIUC, but I really want to attend UI-Chicago and Northern Illinois. Do you have to have a good ranking to go to these schools. I may be wrong; I don't know, but the these schools are constantly bragging about top 20% rank.</p>
<p>just please educate me about Illinois school admissions...</p>
<p>-UI-Chicago, UIUC, and NIU</p>
<p>can only answer for the U of I universities since I am unfamiliar with the NIU admission process. When applying to UIUC, you indicate a specific major in a specific college which you intend to study. Each college does its own admissions reviews. For the College of Business, although you indicate a major in your application, you would be admitted to the general business program and then specify a major (or two) after a year or two (accounting, finance, etc.). Rank isn't all of it, so don't have too much of a flip **** about it. They'll look at the difficulty of your classes and whether you've taken on a challenging courseload and how your grades have panned out over the previous 3 years (improved, plummeted, etc.). If you've got a good ACT score, that'll help you out, as well as some good extracurriculars (I strongly suggest you have these if you're worried about your GPA). Is that 3.3 your weighted GPA?</p>
<p>And NIU...well...I wouldn't really worry about getting into NIU.</p>
<p>You'll be fine for UIC. UIC does its admission based off the college. You'll apply to UIC's CBA. The average UIC student has a class rank of about 75th percentile. Just remember UIC does rolling admissions, so apply early if you are worried.</p>
<p>yes some colleges like wisconsin don't admit people into the business program until their junior year</p>