Any idea what time on the 31st for EA decisions?
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Last yearās started coming out around 4:30pm EST
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Iām ready to start playing the portal astrology game. Have there been any signs in previous years to look out for or anything anyone has noticed this year?
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International applicant, 1480 Composite SAT, 790 Math, 740 Reading independent, 12 APs, all 4s & 5s, internships, research, and more, applied MechE/AeroE.
How are admissions for internationals?
I got deferred @ Purdue and am feeling kind of hopeless. GTech & UMich come out but the latter is too expensive for me now and GTech is insanely hard to begin with.
I could be wrong, but the only ātellā last from last yearās thread was that some people were able to register for the admitted students only events before their decision. But this was also on the day of, so weāll probably just have to wait.
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UIUC has one of the highest percentages of international students in the country. Why? Because they want the tuition dollars from full paying international students. It is a very good engineering school so it attracts a lot of international applicants, particularly from China, where the school has marketed heavily.
How is merit for OOS- is that even a consideration at Illinois- 4.0 unweighted TO?
This is not official but I have heard that they give very little if anything to OOS students regardless of achievement level. The State of Illinois is not in good financial shape and I think that that impacts the Universityās ability to do so. Hereās the web site: Merit-Based Scholarships ā Office of Student Financial Aid
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Agree that most OOS students donāt get merit. Beyond the scholarships at the link, some departments give scholarships too, but they are sometimes not for first years, generally smaller amounts, and not renewable from year to year.
Hereās departmental scholarship info from Grainger:
Although it is a lot of work and low return, there are always outside scholarships as well? A faint silver liningā¦
I believe the much larger factor in play is that they get so many highly qualified OOS students, they donāt need to offer much merit aid to entice them to enroll.
Itās the same pattern at Georgia Tech, Purdue, UMD, etc.
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Yes on the outside scholarships, but typically ones that are of significant amounts are highly competitive. The issue with many outside scholarships is they are often not for all four years and many schools will reduce any need based aid accordingly (starting with loans and work study). Hereās UIUCās policy on outside scholarships (you should understand this policy at all the schools on the list if outside scholarships may be in the mix.)
https://osfa.illinois.edu/types-of-aid/scholarships/outside-scholarships/
Like many other public schools, UIUC prioritizes residents for aid dollars which makes sense when considering residents pay taxes to support the schoolā¦and within that group the school is shifting more FA dollars to need based aid thru the Illinois Promise and Illinois Commitment programs.
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that is also the case for several comparable schools, which do give merit to highly qualified OOS candidates
Which schools are you referring to?
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I would have said FSU, PSU, Clemson, UMass, UConn and a couple of others that I thought were within the noise of the rankings, but in looking further I would like to take my statement back and say that these (and a few others that offer merit) are not quite comparable (as far as rankings go). I didnāt realize UIUC was quite as high in the rankings as it is! My apology!
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You donāt need to apologize. I was just wondering what schools you were talking about as a list may be helpful for future applicants. Thatās all.
got it! In order of size of merit to accepted schools, my OOS S23 and S25 received reasonably sized merit offers at Alabama (25K/year)>Delaware>UT-Knox>FSU>PSU>CU-Boulder>Clemson (5K)> UMD/CA schools (none). Deferrals at NC-State and UGA so I canāt comment there. So the OP comment about UIUC merit stinginess seems pretty accurate.
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This is the quietest EA Forum! Especially for the week decisions come out. Iām hoping this means not that many people applied, ha ha!
But seriously, the Wisconsin forum is crazy with all the portal astrology and here itās crickets!
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Agree re: WI forum. Probably because UIUC gave a concrete decision day of 1/31 whereas UWM is murky (on or before 1/31) which creates mystery & mayhem.
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I agree. āByā or āOnā makes all the differenceā¦ if the āOnā school consistently sticks to what they stateā¦ and, if the āByā school doesnāt have a policy of pre-announcing release date.