<li>How is the financial aid for out of staters?</li>
<li>This school is listed as Princeton Review’s number one school with too many teaching assistants in higher leveled courses. This is bad, no?</li>
<li>This school is also listed as number 12 on Princeton Review’s Major Frat and Sorority Scene list. This is also bad. Is it really prevalent? I don’t really want to spend my time being annoyed/bothered by drunk bimbos or whatever. </li>
<li>From Princeton Review:
While “Most students seem to be white upper-middle class suburbanites from metropolitan Chicago,” “there are many people that contradict that stereotype that diversity isn’t really a problem.” You’ll see more than your fair share of “super-skinny sorority girls and buffed-up frat boys” herethe type who "go to class in pajamas, but out to the bars all decked out"but you’ll also find lots of minorities and “a lot of students from foreign countries, such as China, Taiwan, Korea, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.” Undergrads report that “Students here at U of I are typical Midwesterners with the joyful addition of international students.” If you’re looking for the outliers, know that “They can be found in the Living Learning Communities. The LLCs are really nice because they contain both your average white suburbanite and your atypical person and provide a wonderful place for intellectual stimulation and expansion. LLCs rock!”</li>
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<p>Is this really true?? I come from New York and I would hate to spend four years in a place where everybody looked like barbie dolls. I was interested in this college for it’s comp sci strength but it doesn’t seem to focus that much on academics. Can anyone prove me wrong?</p>
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<li><p>UIUC does not guarantee to meet 100% of need based financial aid and for most meets only in the 60% to 85% range of need (based on FAFSA). International students are given no need based finacial aid.</p></li>
<li><p>In comparison to many public or other large research oriented universities, it does not have more teaching assistants doing upper level courses than others. As to whether having TA’s is bad is a matter of luck of the draw. There are many who are better teachers than full professors. </p></li>
<li><p>Greek is very prevalent and about 35% of the student body goes greek. Of course, the other 65% do just fine without it. A significantly smaller percentage of engineering students than the percentage from other colleges goes greek.</p></li>
<li><p>About 89% of the student body is from Illinois. About 60% of the student body is from the Chicago area (including surrounding suburbs; the Chicago area has about two-thirds of Illinois’ population). Many of those are from middle to upper class suburban areas and some will fit that “barbie doll” mold. although what you will actually find is a lot of students with typical midwestern conservative values (you won’t find many who are anxious to march on Washington to protest the war or think that New York City or Washington is the center of the universe) with varying interests and personalities. Majority of your international and out-of-state students are in the College of Engineering (which includes computer science) where out-of-state and international students make up about 35% of the students in the college. Academics are generally difficult and particularly so for the College of Engineering You can learn about the LLC’s here: <a href=“http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/llc/index.asp?key=westonex#westonex[/url]”>http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/llc/index.asp?key=westonex#westonex</a></p></li>
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<p>Take a walk around & look at the diversity of the students. The schools are trying to mix it up & want out of state and international students, too.</p>