The CoE CS acceptance rate must be a lot lower than 18%, given the crazy stats and ECs of the applicants. This year there should be about 4700-5000 competing for about 500(200 / 40%) seats. The real value should be around 10% overall and a lot lower for international applicants.
^ UIUC eng yield rate is not good ~25%. Most likely due to the cost of attendance.
So it takes 2000 offers to fill 500 spots. 2000/5000 is a 40% accept rate.
Is 500 for all CS including CS+X? In recent years, the News-Gazette seemed to indicate just over 200 available spots for incoming freshman. I think it was like 4300 applicants for 215 seats just a couple years ago, though perhaps that was only CS-Engineering. I seem to recall reading that the number of offers issued for admission was about 20% (plus or minus) of applications, though only about 5% of the total applicant pool accepted the offer. My memory may be faulty, though. Unless they have increased the number of seats significantly, my guess is that admissions and acceptance rates have dropped with the rapidly increasing number of applications. I wouldn’t be surprised if CS-Engineering is close to a 15% admit rate for incoming freshman fall 2019.
There are not 500 seats. Each year there are around 1100 CS Engineering seats available. Given around 4700-5000 applications per year, the amount of people that attend CS Engineering is around 22-24%. NOTE: This does not mean that the acceptance rate for CS Engineering is 22-24%. The actual CS Engineering acceptance rate is probably around 30-40% given that not every person who is accepted goes there.
My source: https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/statistics
The ~1100 number is the TOTAL undergraduate CS enrollment, not just freshman. That’s roughly 200+ per year matriculating from freshman year accepted offers in CS-Engineering plus internal and external transfers each undergrad class after that plus 5th year seniors and such. This correlates well to the number of undergraduate degrees granted each year in your link that is around 300. I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but this Quora response more or less matches other information I have seen: https://www.quora.com/Is-the-UIUC-selective-for-CS
So, if there are over 5000 applicants for fall 2019, figure ~15% admissions rate and less than 5% of all applicants will accept an offer.
Wow. That’s incredibly low. I hope i get in next year
Good luck! If you don’t already have some good computer science related extra-curriculars to demonstrate interest on your application, there’s still time!
@Greymeer umm… there are 200 seats for CoE CS, and 500 is the unyielded number xD
Also, the CS yield rate should be a lot higher than the engineering department in general given how competitive it is. This year the average SAT score on college confidential for CoE CS is 1560 and ACT 35. It is no way that such an insane stat can have a 25% yield rate.
Do you have any ideas of what self projects I should do that would help me for admission. I know I will get an internship next summer for sure.
@diekuz89 I was accepted to CoE and I had a research in a top university, an internship as a penetration tester, and a complex project about procedural terrain generation. Anything that’s in-depth and CS focused will help
My friend who has perfect stats and CS ECs got deferred though… so it’s a legit crapshoot for CoE CS, but I advise you to apply if you have a strong focus.
@Greymeer These stats are not correct. According to Prof Jeff Gerickson of the CS department, CS acceptance rates are sub-15%.
some useful info about actual number of CS enrolls from freshman to senior year.
@PPofEngrDr These are not accurate stats, or at least are being interpreted incorrectly in some way. For our engineering welcome day, the number of CS students was roughly somewhere between the number of mechanical engineering students and ECE students - around 200-300 (evident if you see the group photo) and certainly much much more than ~70. Note that PREP students were not par of this event. My friends in CS have confirmed this - there are hundreds of CS engineering freshman.
Note that the DMI stats are pretty sketchy- For example, I know for sure there are ~400 freshmen in ECE (both majors, as told to me by a professor/admin of the ECE department) while the DMI lists it as 172. There were clearly over 200 ECE students at the engineering welcome gathering
@kermit777 at least you are acknowledging that UIUC is not good enough in statistics and publishing more accurate information, even though it has one of best CS program out there. How hard is it technically or just another administrative maneuver preventing from doing so? So who is culprit here, UIUC DMI or someone uses that as reference data?