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Admission at Illinois-Urbana is really tough for state residents, let alone out-of-state transfers
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UIUC engineering has an “Engineering Pathways” program with a number of regional CC’s and the individual CC links have some some standard course sequences to follow while enrolled at the CC.
http://pathways.engineering.illinois.edu/
Also, UIUC advisers tell students to check the “Transferology” website.