<p>35 Composite ACT
4.0 UW GPA
4.675 W GP
Rank: 1/ 817
Instate, public school
Admitted into: College of Engineering, Civil engineering</p>
<p>KAKA, I applied under a Poli Sci major. Thought I might not get in, but still felt the needle tipped slightly in my favor (many people told me UIUC was a match). Makes me very nervous about prospects at my other schools, so I’m trying to develop a knowledge and liking for more schools that might be safeties.</p>
<p>Did you have C’s or D’s on your transcript? It seems absurd that a LAS applicant with a 33 could get rejected.</p>
<p>Test scores aren’t everything, his GPA and rank weren’t that great from what I see.</p>
<p>It seems to me that class rank is heavily favored. It makes sense because they look at what you did 3 years in high school as opposed to 3 hrs on a test.</p>
<p>Test scores that good should compensate for a relatively unimpressive GPA and rank. I could understand it if she was rejected from business or engineering since those two colleges have plenty of applicants that have both good test scores and GPA/rank, but LAS is not exactly difficult to get into. UIUC has over 7000 undergraduates that scored 26 or below on the ACT. Why should an applicant with a 33, roughly the mean score at Harvard, be rejected for having a B+ average?</p>
<p>Gshine, having a high Act score should correlate to having a high gpa. Which should correlate to having a good essay. I don’t think Act scores compensate but compliment your overall class rank/gpa. I think that having a lower gpa and a high act score should raise some flags.</p>
<p>But I agree that it is a little weird that he/she didnt get in.</p>
<p>Denied.</p>
<p>Darn it.
In state
GPA: 3.1 ish
Rank : None-- (counselor says i’ll have one by the end of the semester) multiple high schools
SATs: 1350/1990
730 verbal 620 math 640 writing</p>
<p>Great ecs and all…
solid essays</p>
<p>Sucks because… the GPA and ranking thing doesn’t really show who I am… just had a lot to deal with during the past few years… </p>
<p>I’m getting worried about where I might get accepted into now…
I knew i should have applied to the agriculture school and then switched later… crap.
applied to las biology</p>
<p>“Test scores that good should compensate for a relatively unimpressive GPA and rank. I could understand it if she was rejected from business or engineering since those two colleges have plenty of applicants that have both good test scores and GPA/rank, but LAS is not exactly difficult to get into. UIUC has over 7000 undergraduates that scored 26 or below on the ACT. Why should an applicant with a 33, roughly the mean score at Harvard, be rejected for having a B+ average?”</p>
<p>It seems like this year it’s a lot harder to get into UIUC whether it is LAS or ENG. But I disagree with you, a 33 should not make up for a low rank or GPA, and if I had to choose between that and a more well rounded candidate I would choose the well-rounded candidate.</p>
<p>jeze, class of 2011 is nerd city, haha!</p>
<p>Thats right 011!!!</p>
<p>Hard to say why I didn’t make it. GPA trended from 3.33 to 3.18 to 3.5 in 9th to 11th. Grades slipped in 10th when I transferred from OH to IL; new school had no focus on transfer students and I later helped form the Student Ambassodor Service to cover this gap over 11th and 12th. I also missed ~ 25 days/yr each year due to illness and surgery, which affected my grades. Recently missed fewer days due to new medical regimen and had 4.0 in 4Q of 11th and 3.9 in 1Q of 12th. Very good ECs and recs. ACT was 36 Reading, 35 English, 31 Math and 30 Science, for a 33 Composite. Two things make me wonder: (i) my GPA was helped about .1 by A’s in choir (though I did receive the highest Division 1 rating for soloist in the Illinois State Contest), and (ii) when I took the ACT a 2nd time and received a 29, the ‘freebie’ score I had sent to UIC showed up on UIUC’s system because they share the same computer system (which I hadn’t known), so I suppose they could have considered that. So be it. I have to focus my emotions to what can happen elsewhere. :-)</p>
<p>damn, im getting worried guys. applied to business with a score of 1720, international student with straight A’s three great letters of recommendation and great ec’s. </p>
<p>does illinois understand that students not under the american cirriculum arent that great at sats? cause i got into uw-madison, penn state (smeal), purdue (krannert) and minnesota-twin cities.</p>
<p>just go to Purdue then. Purdue actually has a better business school than UIUC (according to businessweek).</p>
<p>^ That’s not true. This year’s Business Weekly magazine ranked UIUC as 22 and Purdue’s Krannert School of Management as 45.</p>
<p>id rather be partying it up in champaign than being at purdue university any day… if their business school is ranked any higher, its not something worth putting up with for 4 years if you can have a way better life at u of i.</p>
<p>Bioengineering!!!
SAT: 2140
ACT: 34
GPA: W3.92 (no rank)
OOS</p>
<p>Nice coincidence, I got into engineering too w/ practically identical stats…</p>
<p>I also had a 2140 SAT and 34 ACT and very similar GPA (3.97/4) UW</p>
<p>I’m very surprised that i got deferred instead of denied, given other rejected students stats.
GPA- 2.9 uw/3.4w
30 ACT
LAS- English</p>
<p>Would essays have helped that? I had always through UIUC didn’t care about essays…But i can’t think of another reason why they’re bothering to not flat-out deny me.
Hmm.</p>