Objective or subjective admissions

Pizzagirl
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:14:42 +0000

"Do you know of any good state school which does not have a place for plenty of “super high achieving kids who also have super high GPA’s?” Those kinds of kids are present at every state school (even UVA)! "

Well, to be fair, U of I can be harsh on high-GPA/high-stat students, particularly from the North Shore (since they have more than enough Chicago area students to go around) and particularly if they perceive that the kid may be using U of I as a backup. There are certainly lots of anecdotes about very smart kids not getting into U of I. I don’t really have a baseline to compare it to U VA, though.