Do I have a chance of being admitted as an exchange student?

Colleges & Universities University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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I’m a Brazilian engineering student that is extremely interested in attending UIUC for a year, as an exchange student.

I would like to know if there’s any chance of me being admitted. Let me tell a little bit about myself.

Major: Computer Engineering

Year: Sophomore

College: PUC-Rio, Brazil (about 3,200 Engineering students)

GPA: 8.64/10 (They don’t curve grades here :frowning: )

Rank: Top 1%-5% (It’s a guess - There is no official rank)

TOEFL Score: 108

Extracurriculars:

I’m TA for Calculus 1 (2nd semester doing it) - I give 8 hour of TA a week
I’m an intern at a computer graphics research institute inside my college
Was TA for Programming I (only one semester) - 2 hours a week
I spent three months at Disney in their International College Program working at Magic Kingdom

Awards:

Outstanding Academic Achievement for developing a game in Lua for “Intro to Engineering Class”

Miscellaneous:

112 hours of Volunteer Work
Studied in an American School for 16 years.

High School:

GPA: 3.41/4.00 (Unweighted)
5 in AP Calc AB , 4 in AP Biology
Don’t remember my SAT Subject Test, but for the regular SAT, I got 1950 (730 in Math)
President’s Gold Award for Educational Achievement - 2011
President’s Silver Award for Educational Achievement - 2013
Superintendent Awards (Above a 3.6 GPA) - 2014;
“Desafio Nacional Acadêmico” (National Academic Challenge) - 2011; National High School Model United Nations in New York City - 2012; National Knowledge Bowl Competition - 2013, 2014
Thesis Dissertation “It’s a Magical Mind” Approved with Honors - 2014.

Do you guys think I’ll be able to come in as an exchange student? Thank you for the help :smiley:

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Academically, you could potentially be a candidate for an exchange student with UIUC’s engineering department but I question whether you can apply since doing so requires that you be a student at a university that has an exhange program agreement with UIUC and the list I am aware of does not include any Brazilian universities, see http://engineering.illinois.edu/ipeng/incoming-exchange-students/how-to-apply.html and click on “partner schools.” You may want to check with your own iniversity to verify that because it would know if it has such an agreement, or you can contact the engieeering department at UIUC to find out.

Also, I do not know when you would like to apply but if for starting next fall, the application deadline date, April 1, has already passed.