UIUC Class of 2023 EA Thread

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@kermit777

Have you ever thought why? Have your ever thought lack of information doesn’t help parents or incoming students?

do you even understand what Delta effect is? When difference is getting offset against each other, therefore net effect remains same? At time of admission 1st year, student may have different academic standings, but once you are admitted, your standing takes more or less normal ride, thus junior standing of last year would be expected to senior standing this year more or less same, it just doesn’t skew anymore drastically.

You still haven’t answered any of questions I had raised and that information is useful for potential applicants. UE has become a process that is being taken advantage and hurt lots of good students, because it is only applicable at time of application and most students fall into trap of picking a major. In my experience PREP students are more qualified than UE students and become victim of convoluted admission process.

To give you an example, 3 students are from same high school, have similar extra curriculum activities, .
Student A, higher GPA and higher ranking in school.
Student B, Lower GPA and lower ranking in school then student A.
Student C, Lowest GPA and lowest ranking among 3.

Student A and B are even buddies and did all sort of CS/CE related club activities together during their entire high school tenure.

Now student A has interest to CS/CompE so applies to CS 1st choice and ends up in PREP. (CompE is exclusive choice so can’t choose 2nd choice)
student B has interest in CompE, so applies to CompE and get into CompE.(CS is exclusive choice so can’t choose as 2nd choice)
student C applies to UE and get in to UE. (don’t remember what are options for 2nd choice as UE is exclusively 1st choice)

Now student A works hard to achieve all great results in both semesters successfully transfer to CS from PREP at end of 1st year.
Student B status quo with CompE.
Student C gets into CS at end of first semester from UE based on mere 3.25 GPA in 1st semester.

Student A is now acing in 2nd year CS and student C is struggling in 2nd year CS.

Student A is more qualified to be in CoE then student C, but because of convoluted admission process, right people ended up at wrong place and vice a versa. You can easily infer, who is student A, and I won’t disclosed student B and C identity. Sure your buddies won’t share this kind of info with you.

You are absolutely right, I have no personal interest with you or anyone here on board, but based on 2 kids college admission process experience in last 2 years, I have enough info to share with potential students that simply not being shared by admission advising office. As you claimed to have more info based on your narrow academic experience, you haven’t gone through the experience of PREP/Transfer students. By raising the awareness on the board here, potential candidates asked those questions to related authority and hopefully they share with them and make educated and informed decision. I don’t see any reason why UIUC is not doing that, there is no privacy violation or any such thing being asked.

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X=Philosophy.

Thank you.

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@PPofEngDr
“do you even understand what Delta effect is? When difference is getting offset against each other, therefore net effect remains same? At time of admission 1st year, student may have different academic standings, but once you are admitted, your standing takes more or less normal ride, thus junior standing of last year would be expected to senior standing this year more or less same, it just doesn’t skew anymore drastically.”

I don’t exactly understand what you mean, but I’ll comment based on what I think you are saying. Academic standing, as you probably know, has nothing to do with actual grade level. Typically, when students come in with academic credit, it raises their academic standing above their actual grade, until senior year, when all students who aren’t behind in coursework typically become “seniors” by academic standing, hence the large “senior” academic standing population. For example, lets say, Person X, is currently a sophomore by credit hours as a freshman. Next year, he will be a junior by credit hours (as a sophomore). Finally, his last 2 years will be spent as a senior by credit hours.

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does anyone know how many people were accepted, denied, and deferred for EA. whats the admitted students profile??

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^Those figures have not been provided by the university and typically all you get is a report in the spring giving some totals. This year will likely be similar to last year and totals provided for last year (all provided as approximates):

– 38,700 total freshman applicants, combined EA and regular.

– 23,200 were admitted, combined EA and regular

– 19,000 were admitted to first choice major

– 21,800 total EA applicants

– 13,800 EA applicants admitted in Dec, another 4,000 denied and 4,000 deferred

– Of the 4,000 deferred, 1900 were admitted regular admission

– Average ACT of all applicants who submitted ACT was 29.9

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Hi, guys I recently got deferred from the college of Applied Health Sciences. Does anyone know my chances of getting into the college in the regular decision pool or the university at all? I don’t know many other people who got deferred from this college so hopefully, that’s a good thing sorta…

First choice major was health sciences interdisciplinary

second choice major was DGS

Also, does anyone know when you get deferred do admissions only defer you from your first choice or do they take into account both majors and defer from both?

Thank you everyone

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@majorrelief to my knowledge deferred is always on first choice.

there are similar few questions already asked on admission blog at

https://blog.admissions.illinois.edu/?cat=11

You can also ask questions on other topics by filtering on blog topics.

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@class22and23 Same situation here. She loves Math equally as CS courses and was asking if she should apply to Math +CS but we made the decision to apply CS only based on number of spots available in CS v/s Math + CS. I really wish we could go back in time and change it. Are you planning to send any email to show continued interest etc?

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@drusba Thanks for the reply and at this time, we are going to stick to CS and hope for the best.

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@PPofEngrDr Thanks for the reply. She loves Math equally as CS courses but reading all the comments so far, I think we are going to keep CS as first choice major and hope for the best in RD. Should she write an email to show continued interest or visit school ?

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@catsdogs54 as per UIUC admission blog site if you are EA Deferred, https://blog.admissions.illinois.edu/?p=29029

it states clearly “We will not accept any additional documents while you are waiting for your decision.”. So personally don’t see any added value of email just ho show interest. A visit to school may help her about likability and other factors, when it come down to few choices after RD. We had visited few times, but it was more about understanding PREP in detail, rather then school likability as that was already my son had made up his mind. Glad, we made that PREP visit, after RD decision, and that is only time we learned some realistic numbers about expected enrollment in PREP, ~325 and that boost our confidence that he is certainly capable of performing well in that pool size. For us CompE, was backup if CS route fails drastically.

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Did anyone accepted hear about scholarship information yet?? Or receive anything in the mail yet??

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@hannah1789 it said that we will hear back by mid February regarding scholarships and financial aid

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UIUC is sending emails and notifications related to honors programs and scholarships starting from this week. The exact timeline may be different depends on the type and schools/departments. Good luck to all who are waiting on them.

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Got acceptance materials in mail today and another email directly from the engineering dept. oos/michigan

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@catsdogs54 he does not plan on sending a letter of continued interest but is very likely going to do a program change request to Math+CS. He is putting the finishing touches on the essay. I think he wanted Math+CS for EA but as a UIUC engineering grad myself I encouraged him to apply to CoE instead. We both regret that decision now.

This whole CS admission process at Illinois is really stressful. UIUC should do like some schools and require CS (and other high demand major) applicants to apply by the EA date. That way we would all have a decision one way or another right now.

Hope it works out for both of our kids.

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@adaorange I am from California

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Did anyone receive scholarship information (merit and need-based) yet?

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was anyone else put into the access and achievement program (AAP)? I don’t know what that is and never heard about it or applied for it.

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where’d it say that? @ihmlo29