Chances of General Admission at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Chance Me / Match Me
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-Male from Illinois

-Will be a high school senior

Class rank: School doesn’t really have one but i’d say top 25%

Unweighted GPA: 3.47

Weighted GPA: 3.93

8 AP’s taken by end of senior year: European History, English language & Composition, U.S. History, Calc AB, Government & Politics, English literature & Composition, Physics C, and Statistics

ACT: Superscore is 27 (32 in english and 27 on math), highest regular score is 26

EC’s: Will have done cross country and track all four years, being captain of cross country and track team for 1 year. Also am part of clubs such as Principal Advisory Board, Tri M music honors society, and Jazz ensemble. Volunteer at a retirement home and also had a summer internship at a circuit board factory.

Essay: Plan on putting a great amount of effort into the essay

Field: Trying to get into UIUC general and then will decide after first year

Character: I am a self driven and motivated person who has had some rough patches throughout highschool, but learns from his mistakes.

So what are my chances?

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UIUC GS: Reach

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I’d say it’s a medium reach.

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What can i do at this point to try to make it more of a good chance of admission

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Your GPA and class rank put you in a hole. Given the other parts of your app, you’d probably need a 5-6 point composite leap on the ACT to take you out of the reach category. This past year UIUC accepted a significant amount of students that they wouldn’t have accepted in the past due to a small number of applications, so that could help you if you could make that ACT leap and add a powerful EC.