University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Early Action for Fall 2025 . . . This is the official thread for those applying EA to University of Illinois Urbana Champaign List your unweighted GPA, any SAT ACT scores, and ECs What majors are you going into? Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!
2nd choice - some majors not available - University of Illinois . . . Especially if UIUC is your first choice school regardless, you may want to consider a less competitive major as your second choice Perhaps Computer Engineering if you have GPA ACT near the top of the mid 50 percent for engineering, or perhaps LAS Math, Stats or Systems Engineering if your stats are in the bottom half
University of Illinois - College Confidential Forums For most majors, UIUC requires 4 semesters of a single foreign language in college to graduate but that requirement is deemed met if you have completed the fourth high school year of a language in high school, I e , each high school year of a language is considered the equivalent of one college semester For engineering and some others, the requirement is three college semesters and the
Transfer from DGS to ME in Engineering College Yes, it’s possible UIUC does reserve spots in all majors for students coming out of DGS (will be called DES starting this Fall ) Some majors are more competitive than others If you choose UIUC, you have to work closely with your DGS DES advisor to plan your courses so that you can maximize your chance to successfully transfer to ME (if you don’t get a good advisor, ask for a new one
How hard is it to change major in Georgia Tech, Purdue, and UIUC I am debating on Industrial engineering and computer engineering For GT, IE is with college of engineering while CE is with college of computing I am wondering if say, I go to IE and then want to change to CE, will it be hard? What is the process? I searched online and found that some of the older post says freshman at GT gets to change their major once Not sure whether that is still the
Second Choice Major? - College Confidential Forums Hello, I am applying EA to UIUC I need some advice: This year there are 2 prompts: 1 for first choice major and the other for the second choice major I really want to get into this university (Stats: GPA-3 98, ACT-33C, 10 out of 10 recommendation letters, good ECs) At this point, I am half way thru my first essay Should I apply to a second major? I don’t have enough time to write another
Optional grades essay - College Confidential Forums Who is applying to UIUC? Should I write the optional essay “If you have a low grade or a drop in grades that you have not already explained, do so below (300 words)”, if I have already clarified the main points within the Common App (in the gap year section and in the section “why you transferred from this school”) and I will add very little new information? tsbna44 December 24, 2023