<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Does anyone that has gotten this scholarship know what stats are approx. needed to get it?</p>
<p>I have a 35 ACT and 3.85/4.3 GPA at a competitive highschool. Would this be enough to get in? I have a lot of extra curricular activities in the field of my desired major (comp sci) if that helps...</p>
<p>Thanks :D</p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>You’re very likely to get in. One of my friends was accepted into UIUC with a 28 ACT and decent extracurriculars and even got the $48,000 OOS scholarship.</p>
<p>You should be able to get in but scholarship for oos is not likely at UIUC. My D with 35/4.0/NMF and received almost nothing from UIUC.</p>
<p>@billcsho
That’s… interesting. In fact, my friend received the scholarship by late April, close to the commitment deadline to all non-rolling admission colleges and universities.</p>
<p>@Fredjan UIUC is one of those public schools known to have very little aid for oos students.</p>
<p>@billcsho
Indeed (publics are stingy with financial aid to OOS students…), but our experiences with UIUC differ. I find it hard to believe that your daughter, a clearly exceptional student, did not receive “anything” (not even the $48,000 scholarship for out-of-state students) from UIUC. As I stated before, my friend - an “average” or even “below average” applicant - got it. </p>
<p>@Fredjan Not sure if it is particularly bad this year. We received a letter from NMSC that UIUC has been removed from the NMS list with college sponsored scholarships. Perhaps your friend has something spectacular in EC or a special talent, it would be hard to get merit aid with ACT 28 even for in state student. </p>
<p>It is dependent on the major. I don’t think there is anything set in stone officially, but it seems they use what little merit aid they offer to attract kids in certain areas. Many of the engineering majors are filled with very high test scorers. It seems it is tougher to get merit in one of these majors. Just going off anecdotes here…</p>
<p>My D was offered the OOS $12,000/yr last year with identical stats to billcsho’s D (35/4.0/NMF) and also is from a neighboring state, though not the same one.That scholarship has nothing to do with NMF, though, and billcsho is correct that UIUC does not sponsor any NMSC scholarships . The offer came about the same time as admission(January??) There was other departmental money also. Not engineering. Used to be that one could access all sorts of arcane data from UIUC website, but now they’ve made much of it private. Last year when one could still poke around, I looked at a lot of financial data broken down into minutiae and it seemed they awarded large numbers of the University Achievement Scholarships, enough to fund a large proportion of the OOS students, though I don’t recall exact number. You should ask someone in university scholarship office how many they give and to what percent of admitted OOS students.</p>
<p>Are you applying fall 2015?</p>
<p>Yes @anik597 I am</p>
which $48,000 scholarship is this? I am applying from Georgia and have similar credentials but I can’t find this scholarship