Priority transfer application, or wait for dean's list award?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>I am currently a freshman mechanical engineering student at University of Iowa, and I want to transfer to UIUC's engineering for Fall 2014.</p>

<p>My GPA for Fall 2013 was 3.73. Looking at Uni of Iowa's Dean's List requirements, I am eligible for the dean's list award. However, based on Fall 2012, 2011, and 2010 deans list publications, they don't publish the information until somewhere during February.</p>

<p>UIUC's priority transfer application's deadline is at Feb 1st, the regular deadline is March 1st.</p>

<p>EDIT2: On a slightly off-topic question, how much does UIUC's engineering value leadership positions for the transfer application? I am involved with three different engineering organizations, SAE baja, ASME, and AIAA, but two of them have fairly informal leadership (president, vice president, everyone else does what they need to do). </p>

<p>The AIAA has a more defined leadership, but the only leadership positions offered for freshmen are "junior" officers, which mainly do email work.</p>

<p>I do have a lot of project experience, ranging from building/driving baja off-road vehicles to designing/building a prototype hovercraft.</p>

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<p>Also, when does UIUC tell transfer applicants if they were accepted, deferred or rejected?</p>

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<p>Don’t wait for any Dean’s List Award from Iowa, you just get your name on a list. They used to send out a letter congratulating you for making Dean’s List and they didn’t do that last spring. Just put on your application that you made the Dean’s List since you obviously did.</p>