<p>I am a freshman engineering student, my GPA is 3.1 and I am completing Calc II, physics and chemistry right now. how hard is it to transfer to uiuc for engineering. Btw - I am a international student.</p>
<p>Depends on your type of engineering. Requirements range from 2.8 GPA to 3.2. But those are minimums, and they usually rise when the pool of applicants is competitive (which is like...always). If you want an honest opinion, 3.1 is probably not high enough. According to UIUC's transfer characteristics report for 2004, 78% of the 210 transfers taken in Engineering had a 3.26 GPA or above.</p>
<p>Heres the study, I found it useful in judging my chances:<a href="http://www.pb.uillinois.edu/Documents/transferchars/2004/UIUC_tchar_2004.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.pb.uillinois.edu/Documents/transferchars/2004/UIUC_tchar_2004.pdf</a></p>
<p>The good news: unless you applied for uiuc for this fall, you have time to get your GPA up.</p>
<p>I read through that pdf file. The thing is that unlike most of the transfer students I actually attend a university (purdue) which is known to weed out many engineering students, but I know I can get my GPA up to least 3.3 by the end of sophomore year which is when I'll try to transfer to EE. hopefully it will work out.</p>
<p>By the end of Soph. year, if you really worked at it, you could probably even get it higher than that.</p>
<p>I went to UW-Madison my first semester of college, out of state was too expensive, my GPA was a low 2.5, etc. So i left and went to an Illinois public university until i had 60 credits for UIUC.</p>
<p>I made a point of asking admissions, during an advising session, if they took into account the difficulty and prestige of the school(s) you have attended for college. They said it's not a big factor in their admission process. The big thing is GPA.</p>
<p>I say thats bs, they have got to consider somone who went to a big ten school over community college. But I guess we shouldnt rely on it too much if they claim they dont.</p>