Hi. So I am currently a twelfth grader from Maryland in the US. I am applying to Yonsei. I would love to study abroad. I am applying to the fall 2017 semester. What are my chances of getting in? The deadline is March 23. I submitted my common app and I am almost ready to mail my offline application. I would still like to get a half scholarship there. What are my chances for getting some kind of scholarship? I am in the top 5% of my class. I have a 4.52/5.0 GPA. I have a lot of extracurriculars and leadership experience. But my ACT and SAT scores are just a little above average (26 & 1270). Studying abroad would be a dream come true. Thank you. Who else is applying? And what are some other financial backups? They do not accept loans or grants from the US.
hello. I applied and was accepted in the second round of admissions for fall 2017. my gpa was a unweighted 3.9~ and i had an sat in the 1400s. i didn’t end up sending them any extracurricular information but i would assume it can only help. Can I ask if you already know korean?
sorry but i have no idea how their scholarships work so i couldn’t comment on that (i dont think i recieved one).
Good luck on your application!
For American/European applicants, I estimate the chances on getting a scholarship as very low. Almost all admission scholarships go to students from southeast Asia/other parts of the world. In general, the scholarship policies of UIC are very untransparent. A while ago a group of students asked for some transparency, but apparently critical questions and requests are not appreciated at UIC. Officially the UIC administration claims that admission scholarships are given to students according to their academic credentials, but based on my and many of my fellow international students’ experiences/observations that is hard to believe. I think arbitrariness and simple profit orientation are the biggest factors which decide who gets scholarships at UIC and who doesn’t.
If you decide to come to UIC, get ready for a lot of lack of transparence and unfairness… 
Dear students. As a former UIC professor, I think that the prospective students should be properly informed about UIC. There are few reasons why I decided to leave my position at UIC. First of all, the scholarship distribution has very severe transparency issues. We are heavily guided during the scholarship distribution process. Basically, the administration tells us to agree with their suggestions and we are not given a chance to assess the applications thoroughly. Some 20 students who felt they have been treated unfairly filed a petition about the scholarships, which led into a very serious debate among the faculty members. There were multiple professors, including me, who had noticed the unfairness in the scholarship policy. However, the professors were told not to talk about scholarships with students, instead, the faculty members responsible for scholarships made it a personal issue against the student who acted as the representative for the student group. This and few other transparency and administrative problems led me to leave my position at UIC. For more information, you may want to read Dr. Stephanie Kim’s article about disempowered faculty at UIC. After reading the article, you can only guess how disempowered the students feel at UIC.
Yonsei has close to 100 percent acceptance rate for international students if you meet the qualifications. All you need to do is pay.
I can confirm that a student group submitted a petition to the administration regarding scholarships as user @serioucrates suggested. I know this since I was one of the students who signed the petition. Out of those 17 students who signed the petition, 3 students have now dropped UIC. UIC has a faculty retention problem. Moreover, it seems like UIC has a student retention problem too. I must say that is not a surprise because the school has, for example, censored a student newsletter when the students tried to publish critique of their own school. UIC is not a nice place for critical individuals. It is a great place for K-pop fans from all around the world, however.