My DD is also applying to Purdue and UIUC for a computer science related field, but she is applying to Purdue’s Polytechnic Institute (where her major resides), but there are a number of CS related fields offered in that school with much higher acceptance rates. Same is true for UIUC, she applied to the School of Informatics which has a significantly higher acceptance rate than the Grainger School of Engineering. A number of great schools offer CS in both their Engineering School and School of Arts and Sciences. Something to think about if you want to increase your odds of acceptance and still getting a CS degree from a target school.
UIUC engineering yield rate is 30%
215/.3 is 716 offers
716/4300 is 16% acceptance rate
Which matches the reported 15% rate for last year.
According to
https://ira.asee.org/by-the-numbers/
UIUC actually confered 503 CS bachelor degrees last year 2019. Not 215.
503/.3 is 1676
1676/4300 is 40% acceptance rate for all CS programs at UIUC. This number is in line with UIUCs 60% institutional admit rate.
The sub 10% CS admit rate for UIUC CS is a fantasy stat. The 4% rate is arrived at by 215/4300… Which is not an acceptance rate and disregards the other CS programs.
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I actually found the UIUC admission rate online: 1369/5861=23% for year 2019. This includes CS+ programs. I emailed the school asking the admission rate difference between CS and CS+, the answer was not much. The person who responded my email doesn’t have specific data for OOS though.
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