<p>I am having a hard time figuring out how selective UIUC is for students who are applying to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, since all the admission data I have seen are for the University as a whole, and I imagine the much more selective College of Engineering would skew these numbers quite a bit.</p>
<p>My daughter has a 3.50 unweighted GPA: a 3.35 from her first two years, and a 3.80 this year with 3 APs, all 5s. She will take three more APs next year. She will have played six years of varsity hockey, and is otherwise in the midrange in terms of extracurriculars.
she attends an academically rigorous public exam school in Boston. Her single score SAT is 2080.</p>
<p>Does anyone have an opinion on how likely she is to be accepted?</p>
<p>She will be applying as a Spanish Major. The school does not rank, though they do weight GPA. Her weighted GPA for this year would be 4.30. The first two years remain the same.</p>
<p>Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see selectivity by college. Given her SAT score. GPA and course rigor, I’d say she’s a match for the LAS Spanish program.</p>
<p>She is looking for a school with a strong Spanish Dept that also offers major programs in Latin American Studies and Portuguese. Somewhere with a women’s club hockey team is an added plus. </p>
<p>Portuguese winnows her options down in a hurry.</p>
<p>As for admission rates for last year, LAS was about 60%, engineering college 55%, and business college 40%. OOS admission rate is close to the same as in-state. Her stats give her a good chance.</p>
<p>Since most students admitted into specific majors, the admission stat for each school still does not help much. I remember there was one slide at the LAS session showing the more competitive majors within LAS. I bet the ChemE in LAS would be as competitive as other engineering in the Engineering school.</p>
<p>I must have missed that slide during the LAS session, but I am sure you are right that ChemE in LAS would be much more selective than other LAS majors, such as my daughter’s intended Spanish.</p>
<p>I think the slide is on the most popular majors in LAS with around 15 on the list. Then there is another slide with all the remaining ones. I almost fell into sleep as that woman spoke in a flat tone and low voice.</p>
<p>She should also look at Wisconsin. Very very good Spanish program and high quality w’s varsity and club hockey if you meant ice hockey. Large OOS student population from east coast too. More liberal arts oriented than UIUC.</p>
<p>We did also visit Wisconsin and she loved it! It is an impressive Dept of Spanish and Portuguese indeed. It’s a good fit for her in every way, with the added bonus that if she played for the club team there, she would play against a couple of former teammates. </p>
<p>One big plus for UIUC in her mind is that it has a much more diverse student population, and she is coming from a high school in Boston is a little less than half white.</p>
<p>She really liked both schools, and I could see being very happy at either. If she gets in to both, having to choose between the two would be a good problem for her to have. </p>
<p>Who knows, maybe Illinois will add hockey as a varsity sport now that there is Big Ten hockey?</p>
<p>My son had 31 ACT, 3.5 GPA instate and did not get into Illinois or Wisconsin. Both have become more difficult to get into even with high test score. Most kids around here had over 4.0 and high 30’s ACT.</p>
<p>It all depends on the program. And no decision, by the way, is only made with reference to gpa and test score. They get you in the door, where your essay, personal statement and extracurriculars seal the deal.</p>
<p>His first choice was Engineering, which he knew he wouldn’t get in but was hopeful he would get into LAS after being deferred early action. His essays were good, good EC and an Illinois State Scholar and mostly honors and AP classes. But he had alot of B’s so that was obviously the problem.</p>
<p>Agreed, he really didn’t expect to get into Engineering but after being deferred and considering that we are instate, we figured his second choice of LAS or even General Studies would be offered. Everything thing worked out great, he is going to a good school and with his scholarship is significantly less than UIUC. </p>
<p>Still be Illini fans, hopefully one of our other kids will get lucky :-)</p>