UIUC Engineering Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm from United Arab Emirates, but I am a CBSE (Indian Board) student? What are my chances at UIUC/Purdue. Preferrably EECS/CS ,Are there any other colleges that would fit?</p>

<p>SAT-1:
Math:790
CR-690
CW-700</p>

<p>SAT-2:
Math:800
Chemistry:800
Physics:800</p>

<p>9th/10th Grade: 10/10 CGPA</p>

<p>11th Grade:82%(went a bit bad)</p>

<p>Predicted Score for school finals(XII now)-94%</p>

<p>ECs:
School Computer Club.
IAS Macmillan Distinction '09'10'11 in Math and Science.
National Talent Search Science medal '11.
National Abacus Competition National Champion '09'10''11.
Participated in National quiz contests, won couple of in-school quizzes(atleast 40).
Research paper award '12(National science fair)
Badminton team.
Debate and elocution(Winning)
Certified by the Malaysian UCMAS council.
College Level courses:
Stat2.1X Berkely-90%
Stat2.2X Berkely-85%
Currently doing- Intro to Math thinking Stanford.
Working on a CMS website.
Have a repo on Github where i post code often.
Built an iPhone weather app and an app of our school page.
Do a bit of competitive programming (Very less)(POJ only).
I post some of my project work on Scribd.
Good recommendations.</p>

<p>Where else can I improve? Are there any other good colleges I should apply to?</p>

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<p>Wow you have a couple pretty good ECs (Github, iOS etc)… I’d say you have a fairly good chance at Purdue for sure.</p>

<p>However, although UIUC has a generally high acceptance rate, you applying for CS makes it slightly more difficult. You being an international student, more so. Although I personally think you have a very good chance of getting in, I think it would be safer to say that it’s a high match/slightly low reach.</p>

<p>Look into schools like Georgia Tech, UMass Amherst, UMich Ann Arbor and perhaps a few high reaches like Stanford perhaps?</p>

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<p>Your SAT score is excellent and your ‘extras’ look impressive. You appear to be slightly above the median for the engineering school; however, my knowledge of international student admissions is limited and note that Illinois will not even look at any of your SAT II scores. </p>

<p>This is from the Illinois website:</p>

<p>“Other test results such as SAT Subject Tests, Advanced Placement, or International Baccalaureate Higher Level examinations are not evaluated and not seen by the readers of the applications. Readers evaluate test scores in the context of the academic information in the application.”</p>

<p>Illinois gets about 30,000 applications a year. The EE program at Illinois is easily top-5. (One of my brothers has that degree from Illinois.) The program is in high demand. If you get admitted, enroll. </p>

<p>Purdue is also very good in engineering, but I have less insight into their admissions process. </p>

<p>If you’re shooting for top US schools, UC Berkeley, Cornell, & Texas all have similar profiles to Illinois – super computing center schools with great engineering, math, & physics departments. (The University of Illinois has, by far, the best deep dish pizza of the bunch – Papa Dells – if that sort of thing matters to you.) </p>

<p>Michigan is also quite impressive. Several, if not all, of the UC schools are also very good (UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego) as is Texas A&M in certain areas of engineering (industrial, petroleum, & nuclear). If you can afford the out-of-state tuition price tag, there are several excellent schools in the USA for someone with your strong profile.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>You should have a very good chance at Purdue. Enjoy the food there.
For UIUC, your SAT CR+M 1480 is at the 75% of engineering admission. Your SAT2 scores are great but they don’t need it. Also, they don’t read recommendation. So you just need to write a good essay. Have you decided what engineering you are going to study? You apply to a specific major there. For CS, there is one in Engineering and two in LAS (with stat or math). You probably want to find out more info from their web.</p>

<p>Your overall SAT at 2180 would match you to GA Tech, UCLA, etc. UMich and UCB would be high match. You will have a better chance if you can bring up your CR score a bit. For Cornell and other Ivies, bring your SATto 1500+/2250+. Nevertheless, you do need to bring up your GPA for these schools.</p>