<p>Hello. I am applying to UIUC as a transfer student. What is the general atmosphere of the campus like? Are the students happy? What are the biggest selling points? The cons? I'm trying to make a decision between which university I would choose over the other if it came down to just two. Right now it's UIUC and GeorgiaTech. I'm moving more towards UIUC because it seems more positive.</p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>The general atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen and 20% oxygen with various other gases mixed in.</p>
<p>Seriously though, I don’t think this is a question that we can really answer. Both are very high quality universities and both have pros and cons. It just comes down to where you feel fit better. If you haven’t visited both schools, then definitely do that first. I have visited both, and I like Atlanta a hell of a lot more than Champaign/Urbana, but everyone seemed a lot more stressed out at Ga Tech compared to UIUC in general. At UIUC you may get robbed if you roam the alleyways at night, but at Ga Tech you are liable to get stabbed with a katana, so it is kind of a wash there.</p>
<p>I see. haha</p>
<p>Visiting is definitely something I must do. thanks.</p>
<p>Yeah, UIUC would be the better choice academically and location. Urbana-Champaign is much better than Atlanta.</p>
<p>Thanks Coolbrezze. Could you be more specific on why Illinois is better?</p>
<p>^ Yes I am interested too in the response.</p>
<p>Well UIUC is a much better school than Georgia Tech, Urbana Champaign is a much better city than Atlanta… this is cited by statistics and residents/ tourists. Especially when speaking of engineering UIUC is one of the best schools in the world to study that particular field, though second to MIT and Stanford.</p>
<p>Coolbrezze, have you actually been to either Atlanta, or Urbana?</p>
<p>Coolbrezze, where are you geting all your info from? GeorgiaTech is just as, if not more, prestigious as Illinois, and many people would claim that Atlanta is a much better city than Urbana-Champaign. Then again, I dont really have a opinion about which is better yet because i am also still waiting to visit both schools.</p>
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<p>Somewhat false. They are essentially equals. GT is not more prestigious or less prestigious. It comes down to individual programs.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many freshmen Illinois have? It’s not mention on collegeboard or their website, only states the total number of undergraduates which if divide by four will give you about 7800.</p>
<p>7496</p>
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<li>[On-Campus</a> Student Enrollment](<a href=“http://www.dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/class/enrfa09.htm]On-Campus”>On-Campus Student Enrollment)</li>
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<p>I was assuming similar numbers, thanks.</p>
<p>Thanks for the post. Just spent a long time reviewing all the stats - interesting.</p>
<p>Yes. Seems from those stats that freshman numbers are low compared to upper class numbers for many eng. majors. Wonder why?</p>
<p>The overall College of Engineering stats don’t look low for freshmen to me. There is about a 100 person difference between Freshmen and Juniors, which doesn’t seem that extreme and probably just reflects the departments perhaps not having as much room as usual or something. The senior class is big because it includes the 5th year seniors who didn’t finish in 4 years, so that is just misleading.</p>
<p>OK. I think your idea of higher enrollment in higher years due to seniors not finishing in 4 years makes sense. Maybe that works for the numbers for junior and sophomore years too? Without that effect, you would think that freshman numbers would be highest due to dropouts. This is interesting data. It would also be interesting to see how freshman numbers compare from year to year, which is what I thought I was seeing at first.</p>
<pre><code>Frosh Soph Jr. Sr.
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<p>CS 124 181 161 210
CE 126 118 90 135
EE 216 199 184 343
ME 143 183 212 225</p>
<p>Eng.Total
1184 1258 1282 1767</p>
<p>I would imagine that the dropout rate is less of a factor than most people imagine. There are people who transfer into engineering just like people drop out, and while that number probably isn’t as many as the dropouts, there may be something to the effect of people being behind and still classified as sophomores in their third year as you suggested, so it doesn’t really surprise me that there may be an odd discrepancy.</p>
<p>I wonder if you can use that data as a way of understanding how easy/hard it is to finish an engineering degree in 4 years at an institution.</p>
<p>If you could assume that the number of dropouts roughly equals the number of transfers in, you could look at the average enrollment for sophomores-seniors vrs. freshman enrollment to understand about how many need more than 4 years to graduate. You could compare these data from school to school.</p>
<p>Enrollments, UIUC
Frosh Soph Jr. Sr. … Ave.Soph-Sr., %Increase
CS 124 181 161 210 … 184 152%
CE 126 118 90 135 … 114 90%<br>
EE 216 199 184 343 … 242 112%
ME 143 183 212 225 … 207 145%</p>
<p>Eng.Total
1184 1258 1282 1767 … 1436 121%</p>
<p>(I know a someone whose son transferred from a CC to UIUC - CS major a few years ago. He was told that eleven students transferred in, less than 10% of the total freshman enrollment from this data set and far less than the 60 additional (average) non-freshman students.)</p>