UIUC and Purdue CS admission rate for OOS students

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Does anyone has those data?
UIUC CS for OOS about 15% and Purdue 25%?

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UIUC CS (standalone major) was 4% for class of 2024, per multiple AO/counselor communications

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Thanks @Mwfan1921. This is very low, seems even lower than GT and Berkeley?

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Don’t know the acceptance rates for those schools. But UIUC CS acceptance rate has been in single digits for a number of years. The 4% is directly from UIUC AOs.

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Thanks @Mwfan1921 . Do you know the instate admission rate?

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No, they did not break out the 4% between in and out of state.

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Purdue doesn’t break out by major, only college. The word on the street at Purdue is that the acceptance rate into CS is in the mid 20s, but that would include in-state applicants. I would expect OOS to be even lower.

Definitely a reach school for nearly everyone at this point.

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DD was told by a UIUC admissions rep that UIUC’s CS admission rate was 12%, but that was for incoming freshmen for the Fall 2019 and he was addressing a 100% in-state audience. Purdue’s CS acceptance rate is around 20%, but I believe that is overall and not broken down by IS or OOS.

Highly competitive any way you look at it.

Both are reach schools for CS, although it might be slightly easier (key word: slightly) to get in to UIUC doing a “CS + X” major, because those are housed outside of Grainger (engineering college).

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This is the data i found online for year 2017.

“Computer science continues to grow more competitive, with more than 4,300 applications for approximately 215 seats.”

I don’t know the exactly yield rate, but let’s say 50%, then the admission rate is about 10% thress years ago. I think it will be much lower than three years ago.

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Thanks @Groundwork2022 .

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Purdue is also an easier admit through engineering and there is a ECE major there (although transferring to CS is nearly impossible these days so you really need to be happy with ECE).

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Thanks @momofboiler1

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OP, if money is any kind of an issue, you may want to branch out a bit. Berkeley, Purdue and UIUC won’t give you any financial aid if you are OOS. GT will, but very sparingly.

You seem to be very focused on CS at public flagships as you have several threads regarding CS acceptance rates at various ones. While they have some of the best CS programs, if you are OOS, they are not necessarily the most affordable.

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Thanks @Groundwork2022 again. Much appreciated.

Money is not an issue, but we do consider it as well.

We are applying in state flagship (also a top 10 CS) as well. Since we are focusing on CS major, no falgships can be considered safe. It is very difficult to built a balanced school list if the kid wants to major in CS.

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You’ll need to look further down on the list. Schools like Case and RPI would be matches for a high achieving high schooler. Schools like Clarkson and Michigan Tech would be safeties.

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In general, UIUC does not accept in-state and OOS applicants at different rates. Unlike universities such as GTech or Michigan, UIUC has not been receiving huge number of applications from OOS students, so it has not been required to reserve any predetermined percent of its incoming class places for in-state applicants.

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ASU and UA in Arizona wouldn’t be safe or likely for a student for whom UIUC, Purdue, and various others popular flagships are realistic reaches for CS?

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@MWolf Good to know. Thanks.

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Thanks @ucbalumnus. You are right. We are considering ASU as a safe now. But I don’t have any admission data about ASU CS.

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https://admission.asu.edu/first-year/apply lists general ASU admission requirements. It also says to follow a link to the program to find any program-specific admission requirements. Following that to CS leads to https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/majorinfo/ASU00/ESCSEBS/undergrad/false which describes admission standards for CS and other majors in the engineering division.