<p>According to US News, UofI has 75% rate of acceptance admitting all those who applied. Why is it such so high? Is UofI considered a second-tier school?</p>
<p>The rate is almost as high as my local community college acceptance rate which is 100%.</p>
<p>...i didn't know it was so high! I keep hearing about people with outstanding scores (in the thirties) and pretty decent GPA and rank getting rejected from LAS, let alone ENG and such...</p>
<p>when you put it into perspective, they reviewed 20,000 at least and cut out 5,000 it doesn't look that great anymore.</p>
<p>I don't believe it is that high. Last year, it accepted like 7,000 I believe and that was out of like 20,000. Are you sure it is Champaign they are talking about? Maybe UIC? And no, UIUC is definitley not a second-tier school. They are top-top tier and really competitive.</p>
<p>No, he's right. UIUC has a 75% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>It sound right that we accepted 5000 out of 20000. I got a certain quota to meet unlike UCLA got 44000 applications and accepted 5000 or so.</p>
<p>You probably mean Illinois enrolls 7,000 freshmen, not that it accepts 7,000 applicants. The acceptance rate is indeed around 75% with a yield rate of about 50%. The acceptance rate is high because Illinois publishes a chart of middle 50% ranges in class rank and test scores for each college and discourages weak applicants. Aside from that, Illinois is not particularly hard to gain admission into outside of business, engineering, and a few majors within LAS because it is a public university with 90% of the students from in-state.</p>
<p>"UofI-such a high acceptance rate."
Not for the out of state.</p>
<p>Yes, UIUC's acceptance rate in 2005 was about 75% -- about 19,000 applicants and admitted about 14,200, and about 7500 enrolled. Its usual acceptance percentage is in the 60's and thus 2005 was a higher year than usual and was due mainly to having about 2,000 less applicants than the year before. As to acceptance rate, UIUC is not unusual for public universities. However, unlike many others, it purposefully attempts to discourage low scoring applicants from applying by publishing with its admission info the middle 50% ranges for its colleges and noting that an applicant really needs to be within those ranges to have a good chance of admission. As a result, it tends to get fewer applicants with stats lower than its middle 50% ranges than many other state universities. Also, the admission rate varies among the colleges, e.g., the business college is closer to 50%.</p>
<p>Moreover, its acceptance rate of OOS students tends to be close to the same as its acceptance rate of in-state students. That it has about 10% OOS in the freshman class merely reflects that the percentage of OOS apllicants is about the same and does not reflect that it is harder for OOS to get in.</p>
<p>You should note that this year, the acceptance rate is likely to come down, probably back into the mid to high 60's range because UIUC intends to lower by about 200 the number of students who enroll and because it will be adjusting its acceptance numbers downward because in the last two years its yield rate (percent of those accepted who enroll) has increased requiring it to now lower its acceptance rate to keep the enrollment figure close to where it wants to be. </p>
<p>Also note that though UCLA gets about 44,000 apps (mainly because one app can go to multiple UC's) it accepts closer to the 13,000 range, note 5,000 which is its enrollment number.</p>
<p>Your analysis sound reasonable. But I just don't believe all the brothers living in FAR had a good grades.</p>
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