<p>Hey, I'm an instate CC student I have a 3.8 GPA with some EC's, but more work experience with more than 60 credit hours. Applying to LAS. Was really horrible in high school because I was a total slacker, will it have any bearing at all? I know they say they don't but people lie. Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>Key is college GPA, meeting course requirements for transfer, and seats available for the major to which you applied (the last of which can make, if many seats, or break, if few, your chances); if transferring junior year of college, high school is irrelevant.</p>
<p>Thanks for replying, but I basically already knew what you told me. What I was looking for is in essence is how do I look in favorable circumstances with other transfer students applying for the LAS department</p>
<p>Your GPA, the most important factor, gives you a very good chance, better if you are applying to things like math or chemistry (where they lose more students by end of sophomore year than gain) than if you are applying to things like English, history, political science or psychology (where they gain more students by end of sophomore year than they lose).</p>
<p>Hey drusba thanks for replying. I appreciate it. I would like to know how you know stats about major popularity and how many students at U of I drop a particular major and add another major? If you have a link or website please share it with me.</p>
<p>Some stats are published in enrollment reports which can be found on-line (just search for "enrollment reports" on UIUC's site) although those are more in the form of stats per college rather than department. For example those will generally tell you that the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences usually has a target of about 400 new transfers (from outside UIUC) for fall semester (that is a target for enrollment meaning more are admitted). Other info I get from persons I know at UIUC and some is based on certain activities I was involved in a number of years back. Humanities and social science majors in LAS generally gain students from those already at UIUC from freshman to junior year. Those come from students switching majors and a huge number who entered undecided/general curriculum (usually about 25% to 30% of the incoming freshman class). Math and physical sciences generally lose more than they gain. Note, the fact that humanities/social science majors increase from freshman to junior year does not mean you are locked out as an outside transfer. Most of it is planned for to allow for some outside transfers; for example, in freshman year, they enroll fewer freshman to political science than they expect to have come junior year and for math they enroll more freshman than they expect to have come junior year. The problem is that it is not an exact science and any given year for any particular major you may have so many internal switches to that major that only a small number of outside transfers can be taken.</p>