<p>I was admitted into UIUC’s Electrical Engineering(#4) in December(EA) and was deferred from Michigan(#6). I’m in-state from Michigan and come from a top 3 feeder school. </p>
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<p>I wondering why Michigan’s engineering program is so much harder to get into, when they’re regarded as equals( especially since i was OOS for UIUC and in state for Michigan). </p>
<p>For UMich, you will be admitted into CoE instead of EE directly. That is different from UIUC. UMich value more your GPA which may be the reason. UIUC does not even need you transcript. For in state student, I think you should be accepted eventually. You just need to be patient. Their RD announcement may take some time.</p>
<p>Thanks, thats something i saw on UIUC’s admissions site. They valued class rigor as an equal to gpa, which i dont think michigan does. This especially applied to my case where i took 7 aps before my senior year. </p>
<p>Hope you get into U-M. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>When it comes to admissions into their Engineering college, UIUC is every bit as selective as Michigan. Just because you were admitted into UIUC and not Michigan does not mean Michigan is more selective. For non-Engineering programs, Michigan is clearly more selective than UIUC, but when it comes to Engineering, both are equally selective.</p>
<p>Their admission average GPA and mid 50 ACT are almost identical.</p>
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<p>It’s not really harder to get into… There might be a slight difference in selectivity but the fact that you got deferred from Michigan and accepted at UIUC is just a case of freshman admissions being highly variable. Basically, you either got lucky at UIUC or unlucky at Michigan. </p>
<p>hopefully unlucky at Michigan, but we’ll see</p>
<p>It may well be just the different proportion in EA and RD between the 2 schools.</p>
<p>It is more difficult to get into ME or CE at Illinois than EE based on results from our Illinois school district. Most likely based on numbers applying to those concentrations. A neighbor’s son applied for ME first and EE 2nd. He was accepted to EE and was told that he would need at least a 3.8 GPA to transfer into ME later. He decided to go to MN where he was accepted into ME and had an OOS scholarship that would make it less expensive than Illinois. Also more of his AP credit was accepted at MN for SS GE’s.</p>
<p>But for UMN, you are accepted into CSE not into the major directly.</p>
<p>wiatlisted at michigan, will attend uiuc next fall</p>
<p>Best of luck to you at UIUC benh10.</p>