<p>I'm currently a student at an Illinois community college and I am in my sophomore year.</p>
<p>I currently have about a 3.65 GPA so far as a college student and I will be applying to UIUC for the business school in the 2013 Fall.</p>
<p>While I plan on transferring for the 2013 Fall, I am just curious how my chances are right now as a college student.</p>
<p>My GPA is a 3.65, I have pretty much no extra circulars or anything right now. I could join Phi Theta Kappa which is an honor society among CC students but I'm not sure if that would help my case or help my financial case.</p>
<p>How are my chances as a business transfer? Does anyone have any tips either?</p>
<p>I attended the UIUC transfer visit day yesterday. They strongly emphasized that the College of Business is the hardest college to enter. I think you have a chance with a 3.65, but it is not guaranteed. If you were lower, like 3.2, I wouldn’t even waste the money on the application.</p>
<p>Extra curricular activities don’t matter as much for transfer students. 95% of their decision is based on the grades you receive in courses listed in the transfer handbook. The other 5% is everything else.</p>
<p>by transfer handbook, do they mean the requirements to get into the business school or requirements to graduate from the business schools, or simply grades required to transfer?</p>
<p>Like, everyone has to take ENG101 and 102, would those grades be irrelevant? Cause I had a C in Statistics and that is why my GPA isn’t higher. It’s not required but it was recommended but I didn’t take statistics for business.</p>
<p>“95% of their decision is based on the grades you receive in courses listed in the transfer handbook. The other 5% is everything else.”</p>
<p>It says the average GPA for the school is like 3.5-4.0 in the transfer handbook but what you said about their decision is based on the grades you receive in courses listed in the transfer handbook is confusing me a bit.</p>
<p>Does that mean gen-eds like say…ENG101-102 or BIO101 not matter or something? or don’t mean as much?</p>
<p>Also, do you happen to know if my chances of getting admitted into the business school higher if I apply to a lesser area of business? </p>
<p>I’m not sure if it’s true but I don’t think the business major with a specialty of information system/technology is that popular down at UIUC but the business major with a specialty of finance is.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if it’s true or not, but lets hypothetically say that is true, would my chances increase if I apply in IS/IT instead of Finance?</p>
<p>I do plan on applying to both of them, one as my 1st option and the other as my 2nd, but I would like to know if my chances increase or stay the same depending on size/room allowed.</p>