@Safaky111 we don’t have it yet we are still waiting for the update in the financial aid/scholarship in the portal.
Just got an email from engineering saying that I got a 3k/year scholarship!
@microdrop18 are u instate or out of state? We are out of state we did not get any email yet.
accepted undeclared engineering 
Anybody knows about engineering LLC?
@literallymarx, Engineering Physics was only major my son applied. He is not that into computer science. I am just afraid that he cannot find a job after graduation as physics student. btw he has not received any scholarship from UIUC. Paying $54 K a year for him will be a big burden for us. Do you think he can get some scholarship with his credentials?
Thank your advice very much in advance.
SAT: 1560; SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 800
Weighted GPA: 4.69, UW GPA: 4.0. AP Chem (5), AP English 11 (4), AP Calc BC (5), AP Comp Sci (5), AP Physics 1?(5)
EC:
- United States of America Physics Olympiad Gold Medalist in 2018.
- National medalist in two events (Material Science, Optics) in Science Olympiad 2017 National Tournament.
- Competed in AAPT PhysicsBowl and placed 7th in the nation in 2018.
- Won two 1st place medals(Chemistry Lab, Optics) and a 3rd place medal (Material Science) in 2018 Science Olympiad State Tournament.
- Third place in 2018 Princeton University Physics Competition.
- camp instructor for Science Olympiad Summer Camp in 2017 and 2018.
My D was offered Systems Engineering and Design instead of her first choice of CS in engineering schol and 2nd choice of CS and Math in LAS. How is this program?
@literallymarx and others? Any opinions?
@markcheng 54K/year is a lot of money for a Physics degree. I am not a physics major but I think most good paying jobs in Physics require a master or higher. You should consider budgeting for an MS as well. While I think Illinois is a great school and I would not hesitate to send my son to Engineering Physic there I would be doing that with instate tuition so it makes more sense to me.
As far as scholarships, Illinois is known to be very stingy with them. You son’s stats do look very good and maybe you will be fortunate enough to get them. Good Luck!
Any instate Physics options for your son?
@Cheng what are your instate options?
Yeah, merit scholarships are hard to come by, I got 5k from the CoE, but I’m in-state so not sure how different it is.
I actually don’t know any Systems Engineering people, so I can’t really comment.
Rutgers University offers him $8000/year scholarship. He only needs to pay $6000/year for tuition and fees.
@markcheng My son is in Engineering Physics and Mathematics at UIUC. It’s a very good program. We are in state, so it was a reasonable value for the quality of the program vs. the cost at his other options. Unless there is some other appeal for UIUC, I think Rutgers is a no-brainer since you are in-state there. Or maybe you have good financial aid or scholarship offers at some other top program like Maryland or Michigan that would also make it a lot less than UIUC? Those are about the only other programs that offer merit aid that would seem to be a tier up from Rutgers to justify any added expense, in my opinion, at least based on academics alone. Obviously many top physics programs are at private elites or state flagships that don’t offer merit money and are just as expensive or more than UIUC, so I didn’t include those.
I don’t think Physics at Illinois is worth paying full OOS tuition if you have other good options, but that’s just my opinion, especially since you have a solid in-state flagship option. Perhaps it makes sense for a few majors like BioEng, CS, Civil, Accounting, EE/CompE and maybe a couple others, but even that is debatable given that Purdue and probably other schools are less expensive and similarly rated in many of those majors.
my s has admission to IE. OOS. no scholarship yet. any thoughts on IE at UIUC. appreciate any feedback
Does anyone know if James Scholar notifications have been sent out yet for the RD cycle?
My son got into UIUC civil engineering, we are out of state. Can somebody comment how good is the program and what are the job prospect in this program at UIUC.
@chemepremd I have not seen any RD honors notifications posted anywhere yet. Still waiting.
@AAA124555 I graduated from UIUC CEE department three decades ago, so my input might be outdated, but it should give you an idea. UIUC Civil and Environment Engineering Dept is one of the most reputable ang biggest programs in the nation. It ranked consistently in the top 3 for many decades. The CEE dept has a wide range of desciplines so depend on which area your son decides to pursue, he may go into job markets that typically attract mechanical, chemical, material science, industrial or traditional civil engineers. If your son decides to stay in the traditional civil engineering field, a degree from UIUC should be highly regraded in the job market any where in the U.S. Although civil engineers’ starting salary maybe lower than that of other engineers, the overall career average salary is comparably very good. I would venture to guess it is better than the average among other engineering disciplines, which means it has more upside career potential. So don’t compare just the starting salaries. I hope this helps.
@chemepremd @class22and23 i’m oos and got an email for arts and sciences james scholar about a week after i was accepted, idk about engineering
@bds61821 thank you so much this is really useful information. I have no idea on civil engineering career so we are really hesitant. This is mainly because we are out of state and our cost attendance is $53k per year. But my son is very interested in civil engineer, (in construction management and structural engineering). We also found that the starting salary was low with respect to the other engineering field so we were really hesitant. But your response has cleared our confusion.
We need one more advise, do you have any advise based on my son’s interest on ‘construction management’ and ‘structural engineering’ which has better job prospect and higher salary? I ask because he might need to take some educational loan also to cover the out of state cost.
@AAA124555 I was a structural engineering concentration, particularly computational mechanics for my graduate study. I took many courses in the engineering mechanics department. (used to be Theoretical Applied Mechanics).
UIUC is stronger in structural engineering than construction management, but I personally think construction management has a good upside in career potential as well. In any case, I would advise your son to do two things. 1. Develop software development skill. This is no longer the nice to have but a must for all engineering field. 2. Do internships as early as possible. All engineering students have at least one or two internship before they graduate. One big positive side about UIUC is that it has a research park with 80+ companies inside the campus where students can do part time internship during semesters and summer.
http://researchpark.illinois.edu/
Good luck.