University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (2024-2025)

[onyx flax]

but uiuc eng???

[harsh osprey]

😟

[harsh osprey]

field too niche

[onyx flax]

ahhhh

[harsh osprey]

i'd have to do a PhD

[onyx flax]

why apply at all then

[harsh osprey]

i can just do ds and waltz my way in

[harsh osprey]

the acceptance portal was nice

[onyx flax]

you're crazy

but i lwk agree

[vocal socket]

So fr

[harsh osprey]

but no i realised that after i did more research once i got accepted

[onyx flax]

but i also have beef w them for that

[vocal socket]

UIUC please let me be a nuke here 🙏

[onyx flax]

my mom wanted to see one of my decisions

so i was trying to set up the portal for her for uiuc

but as soon as i logged in the acceptance thingy popped up

[harsh osprey]

LMAO

[onyx flax]

so i 1) spoiled the decision and 2) the confetti didnt come when she opened it bc second time

[harsh osprey]

noooooo

[onyx flax]

fuck uiuc

nah actually i love uiuc

[hardy geyser]

i agree

[harsh osprey]

seems like a fun school

[hardy geyser]

i disagree

[onyx flax]

i didnt realize until after i committed to cal but they gave me a fatass scholarship

[onyx flax]

minus the horrendous colors

[glad spade]

If you get rejected do you get red confetti

[onyx flax]

probs not

[harsh osprey]

no it just says denied iirc

[hardy geyser]

it doesnt give a rejection letter

it just says

Application Status: Denied

[harsh osprey]

DENIED

[onyx flax]

"no"

wait thats crazy

[novel stirrup]

thats so sad

[onyx flax]

😭

[glad spade]

😭

[harsh osprey]

lmaooo

[glad spade]

I'm not gonna see that tho

[hardy geyser]

one of the countless reasons its ewIUC

[glad spade]

But MIT > UIUC

[hardy geyser]

anything better than uiuc

[glad spade]

Even BYU?

[hardy geyser]

yes

[onyx flax]

bro's a hater

uiuc was my half third choice

[hardy geyser]

i got a reason to hate uiuc even more valid than why i hate berkeley

[onyx flax]

dm?

[hardy geyser]

yea

[onyx flax]

i think i know what it is but

[glad spade]

Guys I might get into MIT

But if you think about it all the acronym schools may be mid

Only Purdue doesn't have a goofy acronym 🙏

[tired basin]

Whoops

[subtle venture]

pu

[hardy geyser]

nah no one calls it that

[uncut pasture]

pu onion boy

(average purdue engineering major)

[hardy geyser]

i aint engineering

[uncut pasture]

bro my purdue essays were actually so bad but im not too worried lmao

why purdue was just me talking about tracks, data mine, and pathways internship program

and then why major was just lifted off my UIUC EC supp

[hardy geyser]

datamine my beloved

[uncut pasture]

and then i talked about how i wanted to pursue PL, Systems, and Foundations as my tracks

[uncut pasture]

does ai also have tracks

[hardy geyser]

nah

its just the major

[uncut pasture]

ah

[uncut pasture]

i see, but its still within the CS dept right

[hardy geyser]

yea

[uncut pasture]

im not too worried about my shitty essays since im well above the 75th pctile for purdue stat wise

[hardy geyser]

glgl!

ur cs?

[uncut pasture]

yeah

georgia tech and uiuc alr downloaded my apps 😭

purdue is still

"submitted"

[subtle venture]

uiuc downloaded mine too

[uncut pasture]

yeah uiuc sent me the confirmation emalil

and tech sent me the whole portal

[plain bluff]

submitted yesterday

i hope i get in

[plain bluff]

same

[slate socket]

I thought CS was technical?

[olive abyss]

If u click the question mark next to the subject box it will say ap cs principles and csa are in math

[slate socket]

got it

Well thank god I haven't submitted it yet

[olive abyss]

But idk about normal computer programming (which i took)

I will just put as math

[slate socket]

I'm just gonna put both that and CSA as math

Didn't take CSP because bum class

[olive abyss]

I couldnt take csa and had to take csp because i had a scheudling conflict with calc bc

😭

[slate socket]

tough

I took it soph year

[boreal locust]

you go to purdue bruh where was most of your undergrad population last weekend

[hardy geyser]

😔

[boreal locust]

one of my roommate’s friends at purdue showed up for halloweekend and said it was the only fun he’d had in college so far

shoutout this place

although yall do have better colors

[mint marsh]

srar is HELL omfg

[slate socket]

I already had to do it for rutgers☠️

[visual heron]

other/technical

[mint marsh]

😭

ok i did it.... idk if i did it right

my counselor said she can help tho

so im gonna have her check over it lol

[visual heron]

but UIUC has their own version of "SRAR"

😭

i thought its just the one common srar

but nope

UIUC has their own

[mint marsh]

why do u have to manually put in EVERYTHINGG oml

[chilly shard]

Guys it can not be that hard😭

[subtle venture]

i didnt get the rutgers or uiuc portal yet

but i have to do the srar for penn state too 😭

[visual heron]

its not hard

its just that i thought i can link my srar for this one too

😭

[mint marsh]

its not bad just tedious

because theyre too lazy to read a fucking transcript

[visual heron]

how do u know ur in dartmouth???

did u commit and get in or some

[chilly shard]

facts though 😭

[mint marsh]

manifesting 💔

its fine i'll change it

dont want attachment issues

[visual heron]

good luck

[mint marsh]

also would NOT be applying to uiuc if i was dartmouth bound lmao

[visual heron]

im manifesting purdue or gtech

[visual heron]

lmao

[mint marsh]

real 😍 gll

[visual heron]

thanks thanks

[iron aspen]

applying ce 🙏

[slate socket]

Yeah I know I hate it

[slate socket]

Same king

Hopefully we both get in

[iron aspen]

yessir (my ass is NOT getting in)

bro have u done the SRAR yet

its so aids

[iron aspen]

gt, uiuc, purdue my top 3 rn

i think udub might be #3 too but if i get in ill get like 5 dollars of aid

[slate socket]

nah man

I have to talk with my counselor about it

I transferred schools so there's a few issues I gotta work out with her

it's due on nov 7th right

[iron aspen]

yea im checking mine with counselor tomorrow

[iron aspen]

yea

[slate socket]

alr

I already linked my rutgers SRAR

so that's chill

[iron aspen]

nice

none of my other schools needed srar

[slate socket]

I heard rutgers camden released rlly quickly but I only applied NB so

[iron aspen]

nb?

non binding

[slate socket]

new brunswick

[iron aspen]

oh lol

[visual heron]

better than 0 dollars of aid

u just saved 5 bucks

u can prolly buy 1 gallon of fuel now!

[iron aspen]

💀

[mint marsh]

oh northeastern + nyu have srar too eww

i hate this ew

luckily my counselor the goat

[iron aspen]

me 2

[split knoll]

Would running start classes count as college or dual credit?

[swift mica]

??? rd??

i just finished my SRAR

[regal shard]

It says it can take 24hrs for ur status to change

[uncut pasture]

if i submit a page of the SRAR can i go back and change it

[slate socket]

yeah

[silent hazel]

just got the uiuc email, time to lock in on SRAR

[silent hazel]

what do i put CS classes under? math? or technical? or what

[carmine birch]

So question for the SRAR

so for my college classes they appear both on my college transcript aswell as my high school transcript

because of the fact that I do like dual enrollemnt but take them at my highschool

so where should i put those

[tired basin]

They say only college

[carmine birch]

wdym

[tired basin]

From what I read they don’t want you to list it under high school

I think it’s in the faq or something

[carmine birch]

Hmm okayi 'll check

but then essentially my high school transcript from like sophmore year on will be mpty lmao

[tired basin]

I think that’s fine

I can’t find the faq now that I submitted it but I’m pretty sure that’s what they said

[carmine birch]

Alright cool

[tired basin]

Nvm got it

[carmine birch]

ah okay thank you

this is gonna look so weird LMFAO

[mint marsh]

heyy can i have the link to this ty

[tired basin]

I googled UIUC SRAR Dual Credit

But it was on the SRAR if you still have access

[plain bluff]

is an eng proficiency test required

[split knoll]

Is running start college or dual credit??

[carmine birch]

are you a WA resident?

but prolly college

[carmine birch]

What do you think about like AP classes cause for my high school I get the AP credit but I also get like CC credit from them

[tired basin]

How do you get CC credit

Wouldn’t it just be AP

Each college decides separately whether to give AP credit

[carmine birch]

Idk that's just how my high school operates

like it's on my college transcript as a history course

like it's on my high school and college transcript

[tired basin]

I’d ask your counselor then

[carmine birch]

okay cool

[glad spade]

i have the same thing

put it where you took it bruh

[carmine birch]

I took it at my high school

but it's on my college trancsript

[glad spade]

put under hs

[carmine birch]

okay cool

[subtle venture]

guys deadass i thought urbana-champaign was anywhere near chicago

turns out its 2 hours south 😭

[mint marsh]

how do u not know

its a corn school for a reason

[vocal socket]

champaign urbana is a pretty big city

or decently sized

id say

[mint marsh]

its like a college town ig

still not much 2 do

plsss i like uiuc but i need outta this state 🙏

unless its northwestern

[split knoll]

Yes

[carmine birch]

prolly college

since you're taking them at whatever CC

[subtle venture]

are you in IL

[silent hazel]

i wanna ask again how would i submit language classes i skipped b/c of a placement test? its still on my transcript

[supple cipher]

dude the ride back and forth is trash

[subtle venture]

damn

apparently uiuc owns an airport in champaign

so another option is to fly to chicago and get on a connecting flight

but thats not pretty convenient is it

can be annoying at times

[mint marsh]

yea

[mint marsh]

that def would add up

also is it worth it to like fly 30 mins

[subtle venture]

prob not

but if i were to end up there i have no one to drive me and will have to rely on someone to pick me up

or ig i can find a bus

idk

[supple cipher]

my brother went and he just flew to chicago and rode a bus for 2 hours

[subtle venture]

yeah

makes sense

[supple cipher]

shits rough tho

you spend a whole day travelling

[subtle venture]

does the bus go directly to the uni campus

[supple cipher]

yea pretty sure

idrk

[olive abyss]

Where did you find this?

I googled what u did and i cant find it

[supple cipher]

what did you guys put for language other than english

I did ib spanish SL

like what level is that

[olive abyss]

It says if ur language course does not indicate a lvl to enter the # of yrs u gave taken it in ghe lvl field

[supple cipher]

i technically took 4 but 1 was in 8th grade and I took it off my transcript

i took spanish 1,2,3, SL

[silent hazel]

i skipped some language levels with a placement test how do i put it in

[ruby kindle]

wait guys what’s SRAR

is it just courses we put on the application

[topaz axle]

is AP Prep on the srar the same as "Pre-AP"?

cos my transcript has Pre-AP courses but im not sure if thats the same as "AP Prep"

[dusky python]

wait wtf

i applied ea, i specified this in my common app

i had my common inn on the 25th of october and i did my srar rn

[topaz axle]

cooked

[dusky python]

bro

they even downloaded it on oct 28

is there a helpline i can call?

[keen rapids]

it takes 24 hours to update iirc

[dusky python]

yeah i asked their office of undergrad admissions

[keen rapids]

I hate how they put that there w/o an immediate disclaimer though
scared the heck out of me, and its super confusing

[silent hazel]

same here i almost flipped out

[carmine birch]

So for the classes that are both ap and dual credit should I put them in my high school or college thing?

😭😭

[mint marsh]

i think u do both

idk for sure

see i talked 2 my counselor

i was highk confused still

[carmine birch]

Both?

[mint marsh]

yeaaa

[carmine birch]

Really

[mint marsh]

so we have classes at my hs that u can do ap

and then sign up for dual credit

[carmine birch]

Yeah same

[mint marsh]

thru another local uni

[carmine birch]

Yup

[mint marsh]

and i believe u can do both

[carmine birch]

Same exact thing here

[mint marsh]

well i have these classes that r like.. not AP but we do them at our hs + get credit thru cc

and she said both sections iirc??

again i am not 100% sure

but i js am praying i did it right

[carmine birch]

Hmm okay

I might just call the admissions office

[mint marsh]

okok

[silent hazel]

how do u got ap AND dual credit?

[carmine birch]

My high school just like that

Idek

[brittle notch]

chat

for the srar

my grading system only does a's, b's and c's

no a+/a- etc

so like i have a couple grades that are like 97 and 92 for each semester, but my school district sees both as an A

so do i report it as an A+/A- if our district doesn't have that conversion

[carmine birch]

Tuna just do it as your district reports it

don't convert between systems

[brittle notch]

sank u snowy

[carmine birch]

yes of course

[ruby kindle]

chattery chat

i forgot putting my ap scores in my common app

can i send it to them or is there a way on the portal

[topaz axle]

how do u forget to do that

some people dont deserve to go to college fr /s

[ruby kindle]

idek tbh

its chill ill email them!

[brittle notch]

i was gonna say probs js email them

[ruby kindle]

it says complete for regular decision for me what else do i need?

oh do i have to send official

[subtle venture]

wait

how the hell is that RD

did you submit the app after nov 1st?

yeah

nov 2nd

[ruby kindle]

oh bruh what

i did it before 12am

[carmine birch]

it may update

[ruby kindle]

apparently it updates in a few days

[tired basin]

Can we get a pinned message or something for that?

[ornate pebble]

if we have summer courses from a different "high school" (UC scout program) that goes onto ur official high school transcript, which part of the SRAR do you put the grades in? I just don't want it to seem like the classes I took at this alternative high school are completely independent of my official high school, because the classes were a partnership between both schools and they were meant to go on my official high school transcript that contributes to my official gpa

[visual heron]

I had this same question in fact I took them from uc scout lol, I just put both courses twice

for example I had spanish from ucscout on my school transcript I lsited that on my highschool for uiuc, and then listed it on my ucscout

section

just do both

cause it says list every course on your highschool transcript

[ornate pebble]

bet thats waht I was gonna do too

ig ill do that

[dusky python]

uh so i submitted my sat officially on like the 28th of october, so why does it say "self reported"??

[silent hazel]

ok it fixed guys its ea now

thank goodness

[uncut pasture]

for SRAR my school reports grades as 1-100 for each semester and only ten point letter grades (A B C etc)

it doesnt even technically report letter grades but it uses them for UW gpa

[carmine birch]

I would call and see if you can change it because I just called and they said NOT to list it twice only list the college party

[neon mountain]

how much does uiuc cs care about ECs

the college counselor that came to our school said it was mainly an emphasis on stats

[floral quail]

its like a 7% acceptance rate

they can't reject 93% of applicants on stats alone

[neon mountain]

true

[subtle venture]

wtf

WHY DOES IT SAY REGULAR DECISION

I SELF REPORTED MY SCORES ON 11/1

[honest trench]

apparently it takes 24hrs to update their website

scroll up a few others had the same issue

but they had it resolved

never showed up for me like that tho

[silent hazel]

mine resolved this morning

[subtle venture]

so even my self-reported scores that appear as submitted on 11/2 right

even though i submitted them w the common app itself on 11/1

[honest trench]

idk, me personally, i had everything submitted in october

[mint marsh]

oh dw i didnt submit yet

um

so if its a dual credit class

i dont list it in hs??

why is this so confusing wtf

[carmine birch]

No you don’t

Put it in the college

That’s what I’m doing

[mint marsh]

alright

thank u

[ruby kindle]

chat pray for me

[subtle venture]

huh

howd you get that

[ruby kindle]

idk i checked my portal and it said this!

[subtle venture]

bro deadass i got everything in before the 7th

what the fuck

[ruby kindle]

no it toko me a day to update

[subtle venture]

OH

[vocal socket]

Yea

[subtle venture]

so at first you had regular decision?

[vocal socket]

I did my SRAR yesterday

And now it's EA

[vocal socket]

Ye

[subtle venture]

oh i see

[vocal socket]

It says RD first to everyone

[subtle venture]

i see

[ruby kindle]

yes

[subtle venture]

alr

so nothing to worry abt

[iron schooner]

a class is considered college level (by uconn), but im not enrolled in dual creidt to recieve college credit from uconn, shoudl i still say dual credit or what? cause theres no College Level option
its not AP either
its ECE

[iron aspen]

i submitted mine yesterday

and then it fixed tthis mroning

[ruby kindle]

i swear there was a "college level" option

oh wait

ik

add a university

add a new school

[carmine birch]

So for my DE classes

do i put the college course's grade as it shows in my HS transcript or the college transcript

[novel stirrup]

i got college credit for 2 HS classes how do i put it on my SRAR

[carmine birch]

i'm asking the same thing

well i put it for the college

but i don't to know if to put the grades for the class that are on my college or hs transcript

[mint marsh]

is srar due nov 6th 11:59 pm or nov 7th 11:59 pm

[subtle venture]

stop slacking and do it now tbh

[mint marsh]

oh yea i will lmao

not gna risk it

[idle tinsel]

Hi guys I’m planning to take a course later this year but I haven’t signed up for it yet. Can I still report it as not started when entering in the courses even if it’s not shown on my transcript that it’s currently in progress? UIUC won’t need official transcripts until you get admitted too

[slate socket]

Idk if it's just me

But why tf is Spanish not an option in the foreign language section?

It literally won't show up in my dropdown menu

[slate socket]

nvm just a browser issue I switched browser and problem solved

[little haven]

UIUC Decision Release Times

Dates are confirmed, time of day is likely. Displayed in your current time zone.
EA: <t:1738360800:F>
RD: <t:1740780000:F>

[little haven]

@everyone we have found the UIUC decision release dates for those who have not yet seen!

[low hazel]

Damn

[plain bluff]

woah

[low hazel]

Didn’t apply but woah

[humble goblet]

wait are all decisions done on the same day or could they happen earlier

[little haven]

Usually I don’t trust end of month dates but I checked last year via wayback machine and their website had the correct dates

[onyx flax]

same day

[iron aspen]

shouldve cited me smh

[little haven]

I expect these to be the exact bc of the above + their habit of releasing on Fridays (which both of these are)

[iron aspen]

jk

[little haven]

My guesses for the major public’s are January 24th and 31st

So this lines up

[iron aspen]

nice

[little haven]

I think i was gonna lock in the 24th for UNC as a speculated date on the website but now ion wanna

[iron aspen]

carly is there a approximate for gt EA1

[silent hazel]

time to wait for 2 more months 😍

[ornate pebble]

UIUC decisions coming out on my birthday 😭🙏

[dusky python]

Omg all college decisions are so late 😭

[iron aspen]

no way

[dusky python]

But then Cornell is so early like I’m not gonna gwt in and I’m gonna just be depresso lol

[iron aspen]

uiuc and NEU are my latest

[little haven]

For most dates I have two guesses tbh I only put up the ones on the website where I was leaning towards one of the dates I can double check tech again to see the two I’m between if any

[humble goblet]

either gonna be the best or the most mid birthday present

[dusky python]

Mid?

[humble goblet]

getting a rejection

[dusky python]

That’s worse than mid

😢😢

[little haven]

Wait @iron aspen in state or OOS tech

[iron aspen]

okay danke

[iron aspen]

instate

[humble goblet]

not if you don’t gaf about the school

[ornate pebble]

Yeah ☠️ hopefully the former

[humble goblet]

real

[slim kindle]

man jan 31 feels so far away

[glad spade]

Is it better to get rejected by UIUC or accepted by Alaska Bible College?

[little haven]

Their pattern is second Friday of December so my guess is the 13th but the month starts on a Sunday so if they wanna run early they could reasonably do the 6th

[glad spade]

These are the questions we should be asking ourselves

[iron aspen]

holy shit thats so soon 😭

[onyx flax]

only purdue does rolling for rd afaik

[little haven]

Tbf they only have to deal with a state of applicants for that

[little haven]

I think they did waves for ea last year

Bc I wrote starting on it

A couple UCs do waves as well

NEU did waves at least once but I think that’s abnormal idr

USC does waves for both ea and rd

[iron aspen]

yea but im so nervous 😭

is there a RIT/UGA thread yet

[little haven]

No

[iron aspen]

darn no interest 😔

[little haven]

The one I remember was funny as hell but also hell for us

Basically they released some of their abroad decisions early via a welcome email

And it was a Saturday morning

Which is not when they were intending to release decisions

[glad spade]

If neu practices yield protection

Should I hope to get rejected or accepted?

[little haven]

So they had to whip up a plan to let in all the kids they accidentally sent emails to that day + a few others and then do a few waves that week

The poor social media people

[bitter barn]

Damn I remember this waiting period was insane

All the best to those who applied

Feels weird to be finally on the other end of all this

[onyx flax]

wait do you mean waves on the same day or across days

bc I don't remember across day waves

[little haven]

Varies by school

[onyx flax]

for uiuc?

[little haven]

No

[onyx flax]

wdym no

[little haven]

What needs to be clarified

UIUC does not do waves

[vocal socket]

Purdue does it in waves?

[little haven]

Yes

[vocal socket]

Cool

[onyx flax]

ahh

[onyx flax]

oh i thought you meant uiuc here

[uncut pasture]

guys I cant fit "Not Started" on my SRAR

[novel stirrup]

doesnt that go as in progress

[slender hedge]

SANKS ORZ

Also damn jan 31 is crazy

[slate socket]

☠️ Well shit I put the gym quarters I have for q3 and q4 as not started

What do I do

[uncut pasture]

i finished my SRAR but i lowkey have some questions about it

is it ight if i submit it tmr after i call their AO

[edgy zinc]

isnt it due today

7th november

[uncut pasture]

today is the 6th?

[edgy zinc]

for me its the 7th

[uncut pasture]

i live in central time so...

[novel stirrup]

i think we have until tmrw

[uncut pasture]

turned it in

we ball regardless

[iron aspen]

😭

[mint marsh]

ngl idk if i did it 100% right

i was like honest yk

but

idk if i did the dual credit thing correctly cause i was confuzzled

[idle tinsel]

If it’s on your HS Transcript and College transcript and you selected dual credit your good

[mint marsh]

okayy

idk if i got the credit properly but my counselor said worst case scenario she can js email or smth

[hidden topaz]

I turned in the SRAR today but it says I am put for Regular decisision even thoug all my application materials are in

[harsh osprey]

#1268244495976235110 message

[subtle venture]

because everything shouldve been received by 11:59 pm CT 11/6

i think

or i may be wrong

[hidden topaz]

No other college does it that way

[subtle venture]

in which case thats a technical issue

[iron aspen]

@little haven dyk if the uiuc time is cst or est

[onyx flax]

this should show in your local timezone

[iron aspen]

oh ty

[fickle sentinel]

SAME

??????????

[hidden topaz]

its fixed for me now

just wait a bit

it says EA now

[fickle sentinel]

bro i was boutta

rage

alr went through so much trouble for my UIUC app

😔

[wary bane]

Is anyone elses UIUC portal still saying regular decision?

[unique axle]

Hey

[uncut pasture]

what the ilini

[mint marsh]

pls accept me uiuc 🙏

imma need this acceptance

[glad spade]

What are you gonna do with it?

Sell it?

How much does a UIUC acceptance go for these days?

[mint marsh]

im going to attend the school duh

[glad spade]

Wait lowkey what if they allowed you to sell acceptances

[mint marsh]

that would be good

i can sell my illinois state acceptance to the 5% that cant get in

😍

[glad spade]

Imagine the insane people who have multiple ivy acceptances

They'd prob sell for like thousands

[mint marsh]

yea def

[tawny sphinx]

capitalism 100

[hardy geyser]

hallo killah

[vocal socket]

millions

you could get a mil for sure

[edgy zinc]

bruh aint no one paying a million for an acceptance from an ivy

[onyx flax]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/10/18/why-parents-will-pay-500000-for-ivy-league-admissions-consulting.html
if they'd pay half mil for likely acceptance, i think they'd pay mil for guaranteed

[edgy zinc]

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-laugh-funny-gif-12204102

[visual heron]

supply and demand graphs will go crazy for this

[earnest forge]

well people donate entire buildings just to get their kids in so not really a surprise

[opaque girder]

especially legacy depends school

🙃sad news but real

[honest trench]

do i need official scores

it says complete for EA btw

my dumbass sent this in a video game official server 💀

[supple cipher]

oh wait im an idiot

[supple cipher]

yea

ur good

only officcial when enrolled

[versed drum]

thinking of RD here for CE

[versed drum]

varsity blues...

(ik usc isnt an ivy but it shows you how rich people operate)

[tardy stirrup]

How much worse is the acceptance for rd cs

[subtle venture]

prob much worse

[opaque girder]

terrible

[visual heron]

very much worse being realistic

[subtle venture]

unless ur cracked out of your mind and won like usaco plat or something i really dont think its worth applying rd to uiuc for cs/ce

[slate socket]

CE is a lot easier than CS

though yeah still insanely difficult RD

[silent hazel]

prob need to be even more cracked than that

[versed drum]

I thought CE was slightly easier to get into?

[subtle venture]

it is

but its still really competitive

[slate socket]

The acceptance rate is 5x compared to CS

It's still competitive but it's not at the same level

[subtle venture]

Oh alr

[royal fractal]

woah, really?

[slate socket]

yes

but that's not saying that much since CS is like 3% OOS

and I'm only speaking about out of state

in state it's like 13% vs 35% or smth like that

[royal fractal]

still, 5x is really great
thats 15% oos for ce

@slate socket whats your major btw?

[slate socket]

Actually I think it's more like 4% looking at the stats

[slate socket]

CompE

[royal fractal]

damn, are you oos?

are intl and oos rates the same?

[slate socket]

yes

[slate socket]

No

Intl is prolly lower

[slate socket]

for CS I mean

20% for CompE

[royal fractal]

isnt 20% a lot?

where to find UIUCs admission stats?

LORs arent really required for UIUC?

[slate socket]

You can't even submit LORs on commonapp

[slate socket]

someone requested them from the admissions office on reddit

[slate socket]

20% is high but absolutely still a reach

that means 80% get waitlisted or rejected

[royal fractal]

then where are they sent?

[slate socket]

you don't submit them

it said "neither required nor recommended" they don't want them

[royal fractal]

yea, counsellors submit

oh ok, i get it

[slate socket]

I think my counselor still submitted her rec

I think they require that

I'm talking specifically about teacher recs

[royal fractal]

wait, then what recommendations is niche talking abt?

[uncut pasture]

no intl and oos are pretty similar

in some majors intl is slightly higher

[slate socket]

niche is tripping

[subtle venture]

cs+x has a greater AR so if you want to go to uiuc look into that

then again depends on the X

math and stats are the most competitive

i applied CS+GGIS because i believe i have a very well defined geography spike in my app

[slate socket]

I applied CompE already

cause I like compE more

[subtle venture]

oh i see

[subtle venture]

the difference is that CE mainly focuses on low level stuff right

like assembly, c and all that

[slate socket]

yeah

and more hardware

though at UIUC CE and CS take mostly the same classes

[subtle venture]

i see

[opaque girder]

i should apply to ce

cs is too competitive

🙃

[uncut pasture]

i applied cs+ling but ngl i kinda wish i applied cpe

[subtle venture]

the main reason i didnt apply to ce or even cs grainger for that matter is bc my math/physics/chem grades were bad

cs grainger bc im OOS and im not even remotely cracked

cs+x actually worked in my favor bc theres an X which aligns perfectly with my app's spike

[subtle venture]

and i have absolutely zero interest in taking another physics or chem class

physics is fine

im just bad at it

however i DESPISE and LOATHE chem

[visual heron]

were those ap classes?

[subtle venture]

yea

and regular

i had a C+ in ap chem

[crude violet]

Only do it if you want to learn more about hardware.

[opaque girder]

🙃

[remote crescent]

Take this with a grain of salt since I'm in state, but I got into CS + Ling with 0 coding background at all, just a ling-focused background in terms of ECs along with good math grades. So many people doing CS + X majors have no actual interest in the + X side of things (including my roommate and the supermajority of CS + Ling students), and the admissions office knows this, so being passionate about the + X side can really help you if your computer science or STEM background isn't as strong.

The majority of CS + Ling students I've met are California residents who wanted to get into UIUC CS and wanted the higher acceptance rates and just wrote about large language models and ChatGPT on their applications...

[glad spade]

They prob used ChatGPT on their essays as well

[remote crescent]

I know at least one person who has admitted to ChatGPTing some of their admissions essays.

[glad spade]

im applying CS+BioE

am i cooked?

[remote crescent]

I've come across maybe 1 CS + BioE major, so I really don't know

[glad spade]

wait what

i feel like they should be common

it feels like a popular major

[remote crescent]

I mainly interact with CS + Ling majors since I share classes with them, but other than that I see a lot of CS + Math and CS + Physics majors. This is somewhat biased, though, as people in those majors tend to be online more in things like school Discords so I see them outside of shared classes.

[glad spade]

oh ok

[vocal socket]

ketchup do yk any nukes at uiuc

[remote crescent]

Nuclear engineering majors? I've met one or two

[vocal socket]

yeah

[glad spade]

💀 💀

[vocal socket]

like do you have any impressions or thoughts ab the people / the major

[remote crescent]

I only met them in passing, but from what they said the professors apparently directly told them "Don't expect to get a job in nuclear"

They were also pleasant to talk to compared to other STEM majors. CS + Math and CS + Physics especially attract a lot of people I'm not fond of

[glad spade]

i agree

[remote crescent]

I will say, most people in CS + X majors (at least the popular ones) are just CS majors who applied for higher acceptance rates. Several people in my major have outright said they don't care about linguistics, which is really strange to me since I enjoy linguistics first and wanted CS knowledge for the specific side of linguistics I wanted to work with and it really felt like the "supplementary" part of the major to me

[glad spade]

😔

that's sad

[remote crescent]

Although, once you get into the more niche CS + X majors like CS + adverticing or CS + music, the people are genuinely interested in the + X side of things and they're some of the most interesting people to talk to

There are also several people in CS + Ling who care about linguistics more than CS, but they usually are quieter and don't make themselves known since the major is dominated by people who only care about CS

In-state students actually tend to care more about the +X than OOS by a noticeable margin when compared to OOS

[glad spade]

linguistics is pretty cool

but the only thing im really into is like scripts

[glad spade]

well in-state students would know uiuc beforehand while out of state students would be the ones to google the rankings and decide to apply based on that

[remote crescent]

I specifically am interested in speech synthesis and the audio processing side of things, which is really specific but which meant I could write a really good essay

[remote crescent]

This seems to be the case for a lot of people. OOS applicants often apply because they see it's a top whatever CS school, and then try to optimize their application by going + X

[glad spade]

idk why but i found shorthand really cool

learnt a few shorthands

[glad spade]

ooh so like sound engineering?

[remote crescent]

Less sound engineering and more speech synthesis like text to speech and speech to text.

[glad spade]

yeah

[glad spade]

ohh ok

[remote crescent]

In high school I actually made a speech synthesizer out of my own voice

[glad spade]

like this stuff: https://otter.ai/

[glad spade]

wait didn't you say you had nothing in the realm of cs

[remote crescent]

I said I did no coding. That was using pre-existing software and was more audio editing than anything else

[glad spade]

oh ok

[vocal socket]

love the military

ez nuke job

im trying be a navy nuke on a sub

[remote crescent]

The majority of time I spent on that was creating a corpus of diphones in the given language then marking each for things like onset, release, etc

[glad spade]

oh damn

thats really cool

[remote crescent]

The software part amounted to me downloading some open source stuff online and following a tutorial

What makes me sad though is the recent rise of AI in speech synthesis, since I learned about the classical speech synthesis techniques a year or two before AI came to the fore and fell in love with it then, whereas now it's mainly just training a machine learning model and praying it works which is something I really don't like

Concatenative speech synthesizers have a special place in my heart because of their use in vocaloid music, and source filter models are incredible in how they mimic real human biology

[glad spade]

yeah but those don't have the accuracy of the ones that you make by yourself id imagine

[hardy geyser]

ai hell yeah

[remote crescent]

AI actually has some of the best results right now. Concatenative speech synthesis and source filter models are used where their other properties are needed, like source filter models working best when you have limited memory

[glad spade]

wait how?

[glad spade]

ai mid ngl

[hardy geyser]

y tho 😔

[glad spade]

i saw that wave

you agree yourself

[hardy geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/hypixel-forums-gif-23300389

[remote crescent]

Because speech is actually really weird and complicated we have a hard time replicating every detail, whereas AI can start to pick up on some of these patterns without consciously understanding them.

[hardy geyser]

but srsly why mid :(

[glad spade]

nah i got nothing against it

i just feel like

theres too much hype

[silent hazel]

CS + statssssssssss

[glad spade]

though that doesnt mean its bad

[remote crescent]

Text to speech programs as used for accessibility, though, stray away from AI as classic models have higher intelligibility even when they sound less "human"

[hardy geyser]

bruh it saddens me when ppl make chatgpt be seen as all of ai as a field

[glad spade]

didn't you say you barely have an interest in stats 😭

[hardy geyser]

llms are like a subsect of ai

[glad spade]

yeah

[silent hazel]

nuuuuuuuuuui just said i started taking the actual class this year

like i started very late

[glad spade]

but with every company coming out with a chatgpt integration

its so bad

[silent hazel]

so i meant I had little to write about (or so i thought)

[glad spade]

i mean tbf

you dont have much to write

its only 150 words

[hardy geyser]

oh yeah theres a rly cool lab here that i was reading about that may interest u
https://engineering.purdue.edu/VIP/teams/cast

based on what uve been saying abt speech and ai

[remote crescent]

I love Purdue, great school

[hardy geyser]

i found it super cool

[hardy geyser]

uiuc is insane-er :D

[remote crescent]

Would've applied there if they had a linguistics major

My parents went to Purdue and my sister is currently getting her Master's there

[hardy geyser]

wait we don't??

damn

[remote crescent]

Linguistics as a major is only offered in about 5% of all US universities (I went through all of these when looking for where to apply), and the majority of these are basically just English degrees instead of real linguistics

[glad spade]

wait i forgot purdue and uiuc were different 💀

[remote crescent]

Legitimately how.

[glad spade]

theyre both in the north

with the farms

[hardy geyser]

purduiuc

[glad spade]

i was like wait

uiuc dont have a p

[silent hazel]

yeah dw i cooked up something

[glad spade]

blud said "dw" schlawg YOU literally the competition 😭

[silent hazel]

nah bro everyone here is comp

[glad spade]

wait does uiuc admit by major

i forgor

[silent hazel]

including YOU (idk cs is prob exception)

[hardy geyser]

Yes

Iirc

[glad spade]

oh

[remote crescent]

Speaking of admissions, I should call to take a look at my admissions record. I'm curious what it says

[glad spade]

i thought it was like 3 categories like:

1. cs
2. grainger
3. everything else

[iron aspen]

cs?

[hardy geyser]

I asked purdue for mine

Literally just my commonapp

No comments or anything

[silent hazel]

@iron aspen

[hardy geyser]

So underwhelming

[carmine birch]

Bruh really 😭

so you asked to see your admissions file

and they just handed yuou a copy of your common app 😭

[glad spade]

wait they should monetize this

[silent hazel]

ooh what are these new name things

[glad spade]

like collegeboard does

[silent hazel]

i should do that

[hardy geyser]

Yeah lol

[remote crescent]

That's pretty funny. I might have more since I got into the honors college, but I'm not sure

[glad spade]

they should make you pay like $20 to see your admissions file

[hardy geyser]

Maybe yeah

I didn’t apply honors here

[silent hazel]

uiuc has separate honor college app? 💀

[glad spade]

wait do you have to apply to honors

[hardy geyser]

But everyone who applied honors and got into purdue got into honors

[iron aspen]

yuck

[remote crescent]

Not a seperate app, they just consider you as part of your normal application

[glad spade]

or do they like automatically put you in

[iron aspen]

jk

[glad spade]

oh ok good

[silent hazel]

no comp ty

[glad spade]

i didnt forget

🙏

[remote crescent]

And the Chancellor's Scholar program is 95% in state students, 4% OOS, and 1% international

[hardy geyser]

R u oos?

[remote crescent]

In state

[glad spade]

boutta be that 1% 🔥

[hardy geyser]

Ah

[remote crescent]

There are LITERALLY 5 international students since the program only has ~500 students total

[glad spade]

im gonna be one of them

[remote crescent]

The program directors explicitly say that the program is meant for in state students, so.

🫡

[glad spade]

wait would i be considered international or oos

no greencard but have lived here 11 years

[remote crescent]

I haven't the slightest

[glad spade]

and will graduate from a us hs

[visual heron]

i think some may consider u international

maybe

depends on the visa you have

[hardy geyser]

U have to check the site

[visual heron]

my friend moved from india in 8th grade and is being considered international when applying to like stanford

so i think check the website

[glad spade]

maybe my portal has it

hmm no it doesnt

[remote crescent]

UIUC has 2 different types of honors. Chancellor's Scholars, or the CHP program, is a university wide honors that only accepts ~125 students every year. This is almost entirely Illinois residents, and they will email you if they reviewed your general application inviting you to the program with no further application required.
The other type of honors is James Scholars, which is much more common and usually what people are talking about when they say honors. This is college based, so Grainger reviews students with a major in Grainger, LAS reviews LAS students, etc. You can either choose to apply yourself (although I don't remember what's required for this), or the college will email you if they liked your general app and ask you to apply to the program,.

[glad spade]

well it says that english proficiency is required for internationals

and i never had to do it

so ig im oos

[mint marsh]

uiuc pls accept me

[subtle venture]

yeah definitely, my stem background is less than ideal and would get me flat out rejected from grainger cs. i do believe my cs background is relatively good though, given my coursework in cs and my good grades in them, and i have faith that i articulated my passion for geo well enough and that will carry me for CS+GGIS

[boreal locust]

it was an alum not a professor

ackshually

[remote crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/northernlion-nl-hammers-beat-him-beat-gif-7823471197919175037

[subtle venture]

this was literally my line of reasoning but as a huge geography nerd it felt like cs+ggis was literally calling my name

so

[remote crescent]

Looks like there's 22 current undergrads in that major. Only 3 freshman this year majored in that, so take that how you will

Seems really cool if you have an interest in geology

[remote crescent]

Work on your 124 MP or something

[boreal locust]

im not in that bum class

[remote crescent]

Okay.

[boreal locust]

go work on database or something

[remote crescent]

That was due on Thursday...

[boreal locust]

didnt u use extension

[remote crescent]

Because I was dragged into a poker game. I finished it at like 4am anyways

[subtle venture]

22 across all 4 years??

only 3 for the class of 2028????????

[remote crescent]

CS + Ling, one of the most popular CS + X majors, is only around 100 total. Most of the CS + X programs are really niche

[subtle venture]

goddamn they're tiny

[remote crescent]

Yeah

[subtle venture]

dyk where i can find these stats

they seem like OP backdoors into the program tho esp the niche ones

[remote crescent]

https://dmi.illinois.edu/stuenr/

[subtle venture]

top 5 cs school

just demonstrate interest in like crop sciences or geography or advertising or whatever and youre in

stats, phy, and math tho prob need more work

and are more competitive prob

same for maybe econ and BioE

[remote crescent]

Stats, math, and physics are actually fairly strict from what I've heard. If you want to try and "backdoor", those are not ideal.

But here are the CS + GGIS stats

3 freshman, 5 sophomores, 4 juniors, and 10 seniors

[subtle venture]

thats actually crazy

cs+stats, econ, and math are the most competitive it seems

ling is tiny but not that tiny

[subtle venture]

yeah i'd imagine econ too

but physics seems tiny

yeah physics only has 45 ppl

cs+physics

[floral quail]

cs + bioe was made

i think literally just last year?

and it was capacity constrained to 25 or 50 with 0 chance of an internal transfer

[carmine birch]

I can't find cs + econ on there anywher hm

[floral quail]

i was gonna do cs + econ or cs + math

then i realized i didnt want to be a quant that badly

[carmine birch]

I did cs + econ

[floral quail]

so i did cs + bioe

[carmine birch]

lmao i don't want to do quant

[floral quail]

fintech?

[carmine birch]

i'm just really interested in econ

nah

[floral quail]

oh valid

cs econ and cs math i think u can switch into both

so worst case

i just hop out of bioe and into one of the other ones

[carmine birch]

I don't really want to do anything with the econ aspect i just want to have the econ knowledge high key

[floral quail]

valid

[carmine birch]

Cause i am really interested in it

[floral quail]

yale has cs - econ too

[carmine birch]

ooh interesting

[floral quail]

i appied for cs - psych rea but ill probably switch to cs - math

[carmine birch]

Northeastern has my favorite major for a school that i applied to

ah okay fair

[floral quail]

northeastern has a ton of cool majors

but

[carmine birch]

yeah they do

[floral quail]

its northeastern

[carmine birch]

I applied CYber security + econ

yeah lmao

i just applied cause it was free

[floral quail]

they have cs + behavioral neuro

[carmine birch]

interesting

[floral quail]

they didnt give my ass a fee waiver

lowk shoulda asked

[carmine birch]

Nah i didn't ask

they just sent me one lmao

[floral quail]

o lmao

the only reason id do math-cs

[glad spade]

Oh that explains it

[carmine birch]

well you could also just put it down

[floral quail]

is if i got into a target school for quant

and i was like

[glad spade]

Wait nah

[floral quail]

"might as well keep the door open"

[floral quail]

cs

bio e

fire

[glad spade]

Fr

[floral quail]

uiucs curriculum is cool cuz

[glad spade]

But you the only other person who picked it that I've heard of

[floral quail]

theres no

[glad spade]

You my competition

[floral quail]

hardcore bioclasses

[glad spade]

Watch out

[floral quail]

if ur from

the greater seattle area

then maybe

if not

then not really

[glad spade]

😦

[floral quail]

wait fuck you might be

💀

[carmine birch]

oh y'all are WA residents too?

[floral quail]

u have 2 kids from around here added as mutuals LMFAOOO

[glad spade]

I'm not from Seattle

I'm from the opposite of Seattle

[floral quail]

im not either but im in the greater area

[carmine birch]

Same

[floral quail]

yeah

[glad spade]

The actual opposite

[carmine birch]

Bet

[floral quail]

ur probably in wa tho

[glad spade]

Think the exact other side of the country

[floral quail]

so either way

oh

nvm

[carmine birch]

LMAO

[floral quail]

wait why do u have 2 kids from washington added bro

[glad spade]

I'm from Florida

[floral quail]

as mutuals

💀

[carmine birch]

i thought you were gonna say like spokane 💀

[glad spade]

🤫

[floral quail]

bro one of the kids he has added goes to teh same like district

or a neighbouring district as me

i thought this guy would live like an hour away

[glad spade]

I only know one of them

I forgot who the other one is

💀

[floral quail]

which one

[carmine birch]

wtf that's weird

[floral quail]

oh

yeah

that dude has every tryhard added

i lowk dek why

💀

[glad spade]

Oh nah

[floral quail]

actual connection farmer

[floral quail]

has udub sent portal yet

also do u ahve to submit official sat for them

i forgot but im gonna do it anyways

[subtle venture]

from my research apparently cs+ggis is the smallest cs+x major

[carmine birch]

nah bro 💀

they just today congratulated me on applying 10 DAYS AFTER I APPLIED

[floral quail]

yeah

its the cs + random shit

dude ik is doing cs + advertising

[glad spade]

Nah but I feel like for CS+X they compare across the country surely

Cuz theres only so many seats

[floral quail]

maybe for bioe cuz its like

...25 students

lmfao

[subtle venture]

lowkey i think it has a >90% AR bc barely anyone applies except people who are actually interested

[floral quail]

probably will admit like 40 tho

[floral quail]

yeah

more or less

but i guarantee theres just some random pure cs kids applying

[glad spade]

Yrah

[subtle venture]

grainger cs has like a what 7% ar?

[floral quail]

4 or 5%

i think

[glad spade]

I'd rather do CS+BioE than pure CS ngl

[floral quail]

or maybe thats just oos

[floral quail]

eh

if i had my way id do cs major science minor

[glad spade]

Cuz I want to do computational boology

[floral quail]

but cs bio is cool too

[subtle venture]

18x greater chances of copping cs+ggis than grainger cs 💀

someone fix this software bug please

[floral quail]

see i wanna do comp bio too

[subtle venture]

maybe not

[floral quail]

but

u need grad school

to do the ml stuff

and ive realized

id rather not get a phd in comp bio

id just try to get a phd in vision

or ml

and then just work in bio applications

to not limit myslef

[glad spade]

Idk if I'll go for phd