University of Illinois, numbers are confusing me, please help me out.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>The University of Illinois is on my short list, and I'm very interested in attending.</p>

<p>It's website says that 20,000 apply for 7,000 spots. I saw in a college stat book that U of I took over 50 percent of their applicants. Something's not right, and I just want to know my chances.</p>

<p>I'm an Illinoisan, born and raised.
White male, if it makes any difference.
3.952 on a 4.0, but our real gpa system is goofy.
2nd in a class of high 50s.
3 varsity letters, 2 for football, 3 for scholastic bowl (3 years as captain), 4 for baseball (3 years as captain).
30 on the ACT, a disappointing 1280 on the SAT.
I am participating in the Illinois Governmental Internship Program, there are 11 students from across the state participating. Basically, I am working 4 days a week, 9-5 in Congressman John Shimkus's office.
Member of Key Club, and I volunteered to coach a grade school baseball team for a couple of weeks, but I probably have less than 50 community service hours... the biggest gap in my application.
most challenging cirriculum possible at our school, but there are no APs there, we're too small.</p>

<p>I not interested in getting into the school of engineering or anything, I think i'm going to apply undecided, then either major in poli sci or history or education.</p>

<p>Help me out if you have any suggestions, but what do you think my chances of getting accepted are? thanks.</p>

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<p>which Univeristy of Illinois?</p>

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<p>Urbana Champaign, I’m sorry</p>

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<p>I don’t really have any interest in U of I Springfield or Chicago.</p>

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<p>For U of I, should I put my major as business even if my scores are below their normal business admission averages? Would it hurt me, and in that case should I just put undecided, but would that also hurt me?</p>

<p>And back to the topic it looks like you have a good shot to get in.</p>

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<p>If you go to this site:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/stuenr/misc/cds_2007_2008.xls[/url]”>http://www.dmi.uiuc.edu/stuenr/misc/cds_2007_2008.xls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and check out the tab marked CDS-C, and then look at the answers to the questions on C1 (lines 5 through 10), you’ll see that 21,645 applied last year and 15,361 were admitted (and of these 6,948 enrolled). This is a 71% admittance rate, and a yield rate of around 45%.</p>

<p>With a 3.9 GPA and a 30 on the ACT, and being an Illinois resident, you will have no problem at all getting into the university, as well as any of the Illinois major programs you apply to.</p>