Switching from LAS to College of Engineering

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Hi everybody,

I’m an OOS rising senior in high school, and I want to do UIUC Computer Science at the school of engineering eventually. Would it be easier for me to get in by applying to engineering directly or through applying to LAS and transferring internally to College of Engineering? If I were to transfer, is it just based on grades, does it have an essay-based application, or is it a lottery system?

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Apply to whichever CS major you want directly and don’t try to backdoor in. Transferring into Engineering CS from another major is a total crapshoot as there’s close to 0 space in the department, there have been people with 4.0 college GPAs who got rejected.