Yes, I’m not super familiar with all the terminology as this is our first round 
I just got an email decisions will be out the 19th at 4 pm. Weren’t they originally the 15th?
They’ve always just said mid-February. Decisions have typically been on Fridays so the 19th makes sense
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“Our notification date for admission decisions is now set. Your admission status will be updated on Friday, February 19 at 4:00 p.m.”
Yes and though it may be obvious to some, that is presumably central time. So we east coasters hear at 5 I assume.
Nice that they are being transparent about timing
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Since they are releasing EA and RD decisions at the same time, I’m assuming they are final and there will not be any deferrals? It isn’t clear on the admissions website.
makes sense, deferrals become a moot point. It would be either A, R or WL.
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Any chance anyone can predict whether I have any chance of being accepted into the Mathematics and Computer Science major at UIUC? I applied Early Action.
DEMOGRAPHICS: Mexican Male, Small Out-of-state HS
SAT: 1490 (750M 740R) Only took once
GPA/RANK: 3.98 UW, Rank of 2/94
AP COURSEWORK: 11 total (APCSP, APCS, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Statistics, AP Calc AB (self-study), AP Macro/Micro, AP Art History, AP Lang, AP Lit), mostly 4s and 5s. Definitely the most AP classes taken in my class, and the only student taking any AP math classes.
EXTRACURRICULAR:
- Varsity Basketball(9-12): Team Most-Improved Player, Senior Team Captain
- Varsity Tennis (9-12): Team MVP, All-State Honorable Mention, All-Area, All-Conference
- NHS (10-12)
- Youth Mentoring (11-12): Mentored elementary-aged kids, Co-Chair senior year
- Youth Tennis Trainer (9-12): Coached with the youth tennis program and privately
- Varsity Baseball Statistician (10): Tracked player’s improvement throughout an entire season during practice
- Youth Basketball Coach (8-12): Coached as a volunteer in the school youth league
- Work (11-12): Small amusement park where I worked as an outdoor staff member
If this isn’t the place for this, let me know and I’ll remove it. Thanks!
@HelicoptahMom They’ve always been clear about the decisions and you can find it on their admissions page. This year the only decisions will be admit, deny or waitlist.
Anything CS at UIUC is super tough. This year especially as in state applicants will be a huge portion of their pool and of course because they did well with covid no doubt they will also have a lot of OOS and internationals as well. They’re also not generous with merit. I can say that trying to go the Math/CS route is an easier way to get in than straight CS but regardless it is still a crapshoot for anyone. Having 2 kids that have been accepted to UIUC for CS they really like to see programming experience and a strong CS background and the strong math background, grades, etc. Hard to know what they will be doing this year as many are in the same boat no doubt! Being minority will definitely help.
Good luck!
Thanks! By the way, do you happen to respond often in the University of Michigan EA and Cornell RD forums? I feel like I see you a lot…
I have a kid at Cornell and my senior is waiting to hear from UM and UIUC.
Makes sense. Good luck to your kid!
Actually not so clear, here is what it says under the admissions page:
“In order to allow you additional time to potentially retest and to provide a thorough holistic review during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are suspending the early action notification for the 2021 application cycle. All decisions will be released on February 19. You can check your admission status in myIllini.”
It doesn’t explicitly say accept, deny, waitlist. Maybe that is buried somewhere else. We are waiting on a whole bunch of EA decisions at the same time with the potential to roll over to RD with an April notification.
@HelicoptahMom Here you go Decisions, Undergraduate Admissions, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oh great, thank you so much!
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That is as clear as it can be, it implies A, R or WL as there is nothing to defer like previous cycles.
So weird. This year is nuts.
It is impacted each and everyone in some shape and form with different degree of severity. That’s why life is the greatest teacher, it takes exam first and teaches later.