<p>“At UIUC, you can be denied entry to you first choice program for a variety of reasons. UIUC can then offer you admittance to an alternate program in the same college, a different college or DGS. If they make you an offer at all, that’s a good thing”</p>
<p>Is there an element of strategy involved in applying to UIUC? For example, the mid 50 for the college of ENG is in the low 30s , if I recall. LAS is hi 20s, I think. Let’s say you have (a wtd GPA of 4.7 with 10 AP’s) and a 29 and you apply to ENG. Is it possible in this case that UIUC will reject your ENG application and reject you wholly from the UIUC? WHereas, if you wd have applied to LAS, you’d probably have been ‘in’.</p>