At my kid’s high school, there was an SAT/GPA combination above which all kids were accepted to UIUC. You could look at the Naviance for the kids from the school, and that entire segment was solid green, not a single rejection. That included admissions to engineering and CS as well. It roughly corresponded to the top 10% of the school by GPA/SAT combination. So there was, in many senses, auto-admission. However, I don’t know whether the same was true for other Illinois high schools. I also don’t know what’s going on now.
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