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

[glad spade]

Sounds like so much work

[floral quail]

research is fun

i write about research in every why school essay

w/o fail

[glad spade]

Bro but 6 years

And the pay is low if you get funded

[floral quail]

pay is low but i am fortunate enough to come from a family that can support me

[floral quail]

if u dont get funded ur getting fleeced

el oh el

[glad spade]

If I go oos I don't want to burden them further by being like "hey guys so 6 more years :)"

[floral quail]

valid

that would like

lowkey suck

if u get into a top school i think its like

60k a year sometimes more tho

[glad spade]

Same

[floral quail]

its just the lower u go down

the less u get paid

[glad spade]

I doubt this

Unless you're counting like summer internships and stuff

[floral quail]

sorry

its not 60k

https://csstipendrankings.org/

u get like 50k at top top top schools

but unelss u go to yale or princeton

ur in the red

i.e u have to get a summer internship lmaoo

[glad spade]

50k not a lot especially in the locations where these schools are at

[glad spade]

Which could also add time to your PhD 😦

[floral quail]

bro being 35k in the red

a year

at ucsc

is so stupid

[glad spade]

Oh hell nah

[floral quail]

harvard 20k in red

💀

[floral quail]

i think 6 years working summers is reasonable

but its just a grind year round

[glad spade]

Yeah

[floral quail]

shit

isnt phd admisisons easier if its like

the school ur already doing research at

i.e u just continue work with the faculty

[glad spade]

I don't think it's easier

But more predictable def

[floral quail]

might have to lock in on princeton essays

💀

[glad spade]

But the problem is

You do all of this

But the payoff ain't much ngl

[floral quail]

what

like after u get ur phd?

cs phds get paid bank

[glad spade]

Like you're not making much more than an MS person who had the time to get 4 years headstart on you

[glad spade]

Yeah

[floral quail]

if u wanna work

ml / ai

u pretty much have to get a phd

[glad spade]

Hm maybe yeah research

[floral quail]

and those roles make a ton

[glad spade]

Like into algos and stuff?

[floral quail]

or if u wanna do r&d

which also pays a ton

[glad spade]

Yeah that makes a lot but also hard to get into

[floral quail]

grad school helps

[floral quail]

eh

swe sure

but like

a phd is a research degree at the end of the day

i see no point doing a phd

if u dont want to do

research

if u wanna just be a code monkey swe then yea get ur masters at most and just hop out

[glad spade]

Yeah true

But there's other roles

Like MLE or MLOps

[floral quail]

machine learning engineer is phd

im p sure

[glad spade]

Not necessarily

[floral quail]

phd or equivalent experience

[glad spade]

If you're not doing research into the algos but moreso on application

[glad spade]

Depends on the company but many will hire MS

But it's getting saturated

[floral quail]

yeah if u have an ms with sufficient experience u can get hired

for a lot of ppl that sufficient experience

is a phd lol

[glad spade]

But still in the end i feel like it's not worth it to do it for money but just to change career and become a researcher

But ofc you can do research without one

And master's degrees very expensive usually

So it all just depends

[floral quail]

true

if i still like research ill apply for grad school

else i wont

too far to tell

[glad spade]

Yeah

[novel stirrup]

praying that i get in 🙏

[onyx flax]

@boreal locust is nuclear engineering at uiuc iirc

[subtle venture]

same here 🙏

[vocal socket]

Yeeeees

[novel stirrup]

are u in state

[subtle venture]

no

wbu?

[novel stirrup]

im oos as well

[subtle venture]

alr

[novel stirrup]

3 freshmen is scary tho

for cs+ggis

[subtle venture]

thats 3 that enrolled

its possible that maybe a few more got in but declined

[novel stirrup]

fair

[subtle venture]

their acceptances

bc after all there can be 10 people in a class

[novel stirrup]

wait do u know the acceptance %

for cs+ggis

[subtle venture]

nope

but i'd imagine it'd be really high

bc i'd imagine so few people actually apply unless they;re really into geo

all those people who applied just for cs and have no real interest in geo would prob get filtered out anyway

[novel stirrup]

i have one gis activity along with a few cs ones as well as enviro sci ones

[vocal socket]

83% for nuclear 🙂

[novel stirrup]

so hopefully they let me in

[vocal socket]

Woohoo

[hardy geyser]

😔

[floral quail]

nah ur the goat

anthropic'll give you a free pass

[hardy geyser]

Anthropic doesn’t take interns lmaooo

The only big ai company that doesn’t 😔

[floral quail]

nepo

u got this homie

rizz up an exec

[subtle venture]

i dont have any gis activities per se but my entire common app essay is about my passion for geography (prompt 1), i got a national geobee W, i have two geo related ecs (one of which is my most important ec and is in position 1 and another is on the list) and i asked two people in cs+ggis as well as my friend in an ivy league to review my supps and both of them said they were pretty good

and i took a lot of cs classes at school and got all A's in them except one A- and have a few cs related ecs, one of which is tied to my ec at pos 1

im gonna be real pissed if i dont get in

[subtle venture]

where'd you find this stat

[subtle venture]

same

[uncut pasture]

W, i applied CS+ling from TX

i have a few linguistics ECs, conlanging, naclo, ling club founder/prez, and i spent my EC essay talking about writing my own programming language

do you know anyone in CS+Ling who's adding Math or Physics as an additional major

[remote crescent]

I know multiple people looking at adding a math minor, but I don't recall anyone looking for an additional major.

[uncut pasture]

interesting

cs+ling seems rly cool but a lot of my linguistics friends told me undergrad ling isnt amazing. in general

gh i shoulda applied CE second major

[remote crescent]

A lot of undergrad ling seems really... narrow in application. You get a broad overview of many of the concepts, but you usually only learn research methods much later on, and NLP type stuff is usually handled in CS classes

[uncut pasture]

ahh k

[remote crescent]

Later classes do teach you more useful things, but linguistics isn't as hard of a science as other majors so there's not as much of just learning something and being able to apply it

[remote crescent]

My application was very weird in that a lot of my ECs were not at all related to what I applied for, or were related tangentially. I had no NACLO or anything, but I did have stuff like audiobook narration.

Actually, some classes like phonology do teach you to use software like Pratt to actually do spectral analysis of recordings, which is a directly applicable skill

[uncut pasture]

pratt 😩

[remote crescent]

Praat, my bad

[rare badger]

Fleck is a computational linguistics prof

CS 173, CS 440 Prof

[rare badger]

CS, CE, Meche you cannot apply as second choice major, only first

[uncut pasture]

i meant EE

but eh

hwatever

[rare badger]

did you only apply for first choice major

[uncut pasture]

i applied cs+ling and math

i shoulda done EE as my second choice

[rare badger]

🥲 if worst case you get into math, you can always transfer to Math&CS but is hard in general

CS + Ling is a good major i met a lot of cool ppls

I do reseach in ML and most kids from NLP is from CS + Ling

[uncut pasture]

nice

[vocal socket]

Search up UIUC FOIA and it’ll give you by major and OOS status

Until 2022

[rare badger]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/1flsz0p/grainger_acceptance_rates_by_major_gender/

I think these are the latest one from grainger

for cs and cs+x i think the data is outdated but there is one floating around in reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/12kwc4a/uiuc_cs_admissions_demographics_data_since_2019/

[opaque girder]

if I apply CS for my first choice major, can I add second major now?

😛 cs acceptance rate is so low

[tired basin]

I’m female and there is not a single data point for my X

😔

[silent hazel]

these numbers are in thousands? or (im tweaking)

[subtle venture]

does this mean that (for example) there were 23 non-resident male applicants to cs+ggis in 2022 and of them less than 20 got in?

[vocal socket]

Correct

[subtle venture]

wow

[vocal socket]

Take into account more people apply

[subtle venture]

yeah

[vocal socket]

To majors across the board

Now

For majors like that

It means more people get in

So overall better for you prolly

[silent hazel]

only 23 applicants is wild for one year

[tired basin]

23 non-res males

[subtle venture]

so based on this data and the enrollment stat

10 people are in co2025 for cs+ggis

and 4 people for co2026

those are the people that enrolled

theres undoubtedly people who turned down the offer

so i think its safe to say that the AR for cs+ggis is north of 50%

i want to say high 60-75ish

[iron aspen]

euhhghghghlgsgs

im so nervous

why does it come out so late

[carmine birch]

fr

[mint marsh]

jan 31st is crazyyy

they gotta work harder

[subtle venture]

Where can I find the list of free electives

[young kettle]

does UIUC suffer from over-enrollment like Purdue does?

asking specifically about Granger

[rare badger]

not sure specifically grainger, but school overall had some over-enrollement issue this year

so there was a huge housing problem

[young kettle]

ic. what about freshman course registration? anybody not able to register the required courses?

[rare badger]

the yield rate model was way too off this time

[rare badger]

havent seen that issue at least in grainger

for instance at least in CS or ECE they restrict the courses to the majors only for few weeks span make sure majors take the seats first

[subtle venture]

can cs+x majors take some of the technical electives grainger CS has to fill up their free elective slots

[rare badger]

Yes, CS , CS +, CS& majors have equal priority when selecting CS courses

[subtle venture]

LETS GO

[rare badger]

when you register for classes, for instance CS 225 data structures you will see the following in restriction section:

Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign (1U)

Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors:
Computer Engineering (0109)
Computer Science (0112)
Statistics & Computer Science (0464)
Math & Computer Science (1438)
Computer Sci & Anthropology (5348)
Computer Sci & Astronomy (5349)
Computer Sci & Chemistry (5350)
Computer Sci & Linguistics (5351)
Computer Science&Crop Sciences (5623)
Computer Science and Music (5639)
Computer Science & Economics (5667)
Computer Science & Advertising (5673)
Computer Science & Geog & GIS (5676)
Computer Science & Philosophy (5679)
Computer Sci & Animal Sci (5864)
Computer Science & Education (6081)
Computer Science and Physics (6150)
ComputerScience&Bioengineering (6151)

[subtle venture]

sick

[rare badger]

so really you dont have to worry about getting into classes

[subtle venture]

lfg

thanks

now i know i can take some cool cs classes too

aside from the program requirements

[rare badger]

yeaaa just note tho you have to sometimes be quick on registeration hope that u press register button before ur peers 😜

some popular classes fill up very quick

[silent hazel]

damn this is like trying to buy concert tickets

[iron aspen]

thoughts on CE

[rare badger]

Awesome program, you get to explore the full spectrum of computing from hardware to software, namely get to take classes related to FPGA, OS, DS& Algorithms, Computer Architecture, and models of computation

but it comes with the cost, the degree is not easy

We also have cool class like parallel programming (we use Nvidia A40 GPU to study CUDA with our NCSA supercomputers), Autonomous Vehicle course, RISC-V, ML programming etc

[iron aspen]

sick thanks

[oak kindle]

awful school

never come here

washed

[hardy geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-saul-goodman-bob-odenkirk-picture-gif-3471803

[teal palm]

https://tenor.com/view/speech-speech-bubble-bubble-fish-meme-gif-25115905

awesome school

please come here

not washed

[oak kindle]

Do you go here lmao

[mint marsh]

pls let me in uiuc so i dont have 2 go to isu

[teal palm]

Yea

[oak kindle]

No way

[oak kindle]

LMAO real

Screw ISU

[hardy geyser]

Sadly they do go there 😔

[hardy geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-in-the-hole-mewing-fire-in-the-hole-mewing-gif-18313241035063032201

[oak kindle]

This is NOT a flex for us

[teal palm]

Good enough ig

Cuz I can’t show basketball yet

[hardy geyser]

Exactly

[oak kindle]

Basketball will be interesting

Competed with Alabama and beat Arkansas

Didn’t Purdue beat bama though

[hardy geyser]

Yeah

We’ve beat everyone so far except marquette

[iron aspen]

idk who to support for college bb

[hardy geyser]

Purdue obviously

:D

[edgy zinc]

rutgers

[subtle venture]

uiuc please accept me

🙏

[young kettle]

My D got into UIUC EE last yr but didn't go (OOS). Why do you say that?

[mint marsh]

uiucpls take me

[visual heron]

D in which class?

[little haven]

D = daughter

S = son

DD = dear daughter
DS = dear son
DC = dear child

All mean the same concept

[glad spade]

well DS is dear sir usually

[little haven]

I am not sure the etiquette for using dear and not using dear tho

[glad spade]

from what i know about steno

[little haven]

Not on college forums

[glad spade]

oh ok

[visual heron]

oh shit 😭

mb

oh i see he got a master degree on all

[rare badger]

LMAOOO

I am giving everyone the best luck!

https://tenor.com/view/illinois-fighting-illini-flag-illinois-fighting-illini-university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-gif-12428186155355129714

[tired basin]

ILL

[silent hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[subtle venture]

uiuc please take me 🙏

[rare badger]

sending you the best luck man

[subtle venture]

thanks bro 😭

i have a low gpa but im gonna pray so hard that my common app, ecs, cs coursework/grades, and supps carry me

also my sat isnt bad either for the major

[floral quail]

isnt cs + ggis like

not that sought after due to the niche specialization

you'll be fine

[oak kindle]

Your what?

[oak kindle]

Wsg jj lmao

[crude violet]

isu is dollar store uiuc

[spring cipher]

anyone oos cs+math ea?

[rare badger]

just dying from courses... i have 3 final project due all this week....

[tired basin]

I’m instate

[iron schooner]

ea cs+econ

oos

[subtle venture]

ea cs+ggis, oos

[floral quail]

probably daughter

[young kettle]

Daughter

[oak kindle]

In all honesty I love it here, just a joke cause finals are coming up

[uncut pasture]

was going to but did cs ling instead

[spring cipher]

any plans for scholarship?

[spring cipher]

any plans for scholarship?

[spring cipher]

any plans for scholarship?

[uncut pasture]

none

full pay

[mental crescent]

In state?

[uncut pasture]

oos

[mental crescent]

Damn nice good luck

[uncut pasture]

🙏

[oak kindle]

No scholarships here

[uncut pasture]

yeah lol

60k a year

hopefully ill make 600k ten years later

[oak kindle]

Good luck with that

[neon mountain]

tips to get into UIUC cs?

junior here

[tired basin]

Be cracked

Or be interested in an X

[subtle venture]

im working on it

i applied to around 10 so far

hopefully i'll apply to a good amount and get enough to cover at least half the price

cuz its gonna be expensive as a oos student

and a student who doesnt qualify for need based aid

[subtle venture]

if i dont secure enough scholarship money to cover at least half the price OR if i get a better package at another school uiuc is most probably out of the question for me tbh

[crude violet]

good luck getting any aid as an OOS student
even in-state aid is bad

[vocal socket]

<3 department of defense 💸

[crude violet]

are you doing ROTC?

[vocal socket]

yes

[crude violet]

cool

[vocal socket]

thanks

[eager jasper]

lets goooo

[subtle venture]

yep

my NPC shows 64k with 0 aid

so unless i secure at least half the tuition cost in scholarship money uiuc aint happening unfortunately

[neon mountain]

how much does applyting in niche cs + x help

like fr

[sour pier]

I am applying for CS

I have applied and waiting for results

[tired basin]

A lot, but you have to be interested

Goes from a 4% or so to maybe 20%ish

[neon mountain]

got it

[mint marsh]

uiuc let me in

[willow drum]

uiuc let me in

[split knoll]

uiuc let me in

[slim kindle]

uiuc let me in

[hard jacinth]

Rahhhhh! You get the first board army?

[vocal socket]

yep

[hard jacinth]

Nice same

[vocal socket]

my navy got sent back after 3 months cuz i forgot my initials 😭

[hard jacinth]

Didnt get AF tho

[vocal socket]

i gotta wait for december board

[hard jacinth]

I think my interview went bad bc i didnt wanna apply to the school i went to interview for

Damn i dont hear back for af until march

[vocal socket]

my interviewer really liked me he said he'd give me an OTSSP if i went to his school

[hard jacinth]

Cant put it in my activities list

[vocal socket]

but his school is columbia so thats easier said than done

[vocal socket]

damn

[hard jacinth]

Wait whats that

[vocal socket]

commanders scholarship

[hard jacinth]

Ohh

Like a type 1?

[vocal socket]

i think

im not sure tbh

[hard jacinth]

Did you go to columbia for yours or was it online

[vocal socket]

but i know they give a lot more money 2 in college ppl

[vocal socket]

in person

[hard jacinth]

Nicee

[vocal socket]

it was at the crosstown in the bx

[hard jacinth]

I wish i did my princeton one in person but i had already done it by the time i did a visit

Still talked to the roo tho but i reslly wanted to meet the pms

[vocal socket]

my interview was 3 days after first board deadline

next board is feb

[hard jacinth]

He sent me a handeritten letter tho which was nice

[vocal socket]

and nrotc december board comes out after EA

[hard jacinth]

I wish i did nrotc

[vocal socket]

😢

navy's the way

[hard jacinth]

They have some good detachments i heard

I dont get why some ppl are super committed to a branch

[vocal socket]

tbh the detachment doesnt rlly matter

[hard jacinth]

Like the one that accepts you is the one you should do lol

[vocal socket]

its the school > branch > detachment

im majoring nuclear

[hard jacinth]

I just gotta choose within army now tho

[vocal socket]

army doesnt have a lot of nuclear stuff

[hard jacinth]

Oh that makes sense for navy

[vocal socket]

yea

[hard jacinth]

I think uiuc has navy too

[vocal socket]

ye

uiuc's navy det is cool

they made like a day in the life vlog thingy

[hard jacinth]

I really liked af tho bc duke has a pretty friendly detachment that seemed to put a lot of effort into cadets

Some of the cross town ones are awful bc you dont get to do anything

[vocal socket]

detachments have a 1/3 turnover rate every year

i wouldnt get hooked on particular det ppl

[vocal socket]

ye crosstowning is balls

just annoying tbh

[hard jacinth]

Yea its crazy stanford doesn’t host

[vocal socket]

fr

some crosstowns r chill they only make u come 1 day

and u get to pt on ur own n shit

thats fine low k

[hard jacinth]

Yea that aint bad

But some of them are an hour away lmao

Like wtf

[vocal socket]

fr

the entire state of alaska doesnt have a single navy rotc unit

tragic for alaskabros

[hard jacinth]

Do they have any big schools tho

[vocal socket]

UAF is like the biggest and i think they got like 7k

idr

they're one of the direct admissions partners on commonapp

[hard jacinth]

? What that

[hard jacinth]

Oh cool i didnt see that

[visual heron]

uiuc let me in

[quaint star]

me too

[tired basin]

uiuc let me in

[tired basin]

uiuc pretty please let me in

[subtle venture]

uiuc let me in

[rare badger]

uiuc please release me from all these exams and projects 🥲

[plain bluff]

where can you see this?

[mint marsh]

uiuc pls pls pls pls pls let me in!!!!!

[hardy geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/glaze-gif-8311813170669205912

[mint marsh]

need 2 glaze uiuc 😋

i love my in state school !

[viscid prawn]

UIUC let me in pretty please with a cherry on top

[vocal socket]

common app

[plain bluff]

where in common app?

[odd quartz]

u have to qualify under certain criteria

to get direct admissions offers

like first gen, low income, military, etc

[sharp niche]

uiuc 😍🥰

[mint marsh]

U I U C

L E T

M E

I N

i dont wanna go to uic 💔

[vocal socket]

idk the top

[subtle venture]

uiuc please let me in so i can say i copped a t20 even though my gpa is mid

[quaint star]

me too

im praying

uiuc please ill pay double tuition

[oak kindle]

UIUC is t20???

[sly mesa]

it’s 9th for public schools maybe that’s what they mean lol

[viscid prawn]

Maybe they meant for CS

[tired basin]

T5 for CS

[mint marsh]

uiuc LET ME IN

into gies 😋

[tired basin]

How does deferral/waitlisting work in regards to second choice majors?

I selected a second choice major, could I be deferred and get in with my first choice still, or only my second choice

Or do they not defer at all if someone chooses a second choice major

[plain bluff]

uiuc i beg of thee please let mē into your prestigious university

[harsh osprey]

i dont think this is true

[earnest forge]

iirc if you chose the second choice and get in with that then you need to transfer into the first major once you start

[tired basin]

It’s probably pretty hard to go from math to math and CS

[uncut pasture]

yeah

[deft jacinth]

seeing uiucalex reels on instagram is making me want to apply ngl

[uncut pasture]

entry to CS+X is pretty competitive overall, but between Xs is not a big deal

except for grainger X

iirc you cant transfer into CS, CS+Physics, CS+BioE bc they're in grainger

tbh i think the system's kinda stupid but whatever

[tired basin]

Wdym between Xs

[uncut pasture]

like cs+econ to cs+philosophy

or even from cs+econ to Math&CS

[mint marsh]

uiuc let me in

[edgy zinc]

why

[earnest forge]

it shouldnt be that bad ik some people who did it. the main thing is aiming for all As

also in this job market I would not reccomend doing just cs so in a way the cs+Xs might be better

[tired basin]

Yeah that’s why I’m really hoping I can get into UIUC because not many schools offer math and cs and I don’t want to study pure cs

[subtle venture]

!Chance

[tired basin]

0

[subtle venture]

sob

[subtle venture]

Guys

Does uiuc make decisions based solely on jr year and below grades for the EA round

Or do they also consider the midyear report

Because my trimester 1 finished

[lost sonnet]

no midyear

if they looked at midyear I'd be done for

[mint marsh]

because i want to go to college

[mint marsh]

ong

[sly mesa]

the vast majority of EA rounds don’t look at mid-year reports because of the timeline

[subtle venture]

alr

[iron aspen]

does UIUC give acceptance rates for

majors

not just colleges

i might consider switching from CE to EE

[sly mesa]

you have to submit a ferpa request, the info thats available online is outdated

but honestly its probably a very trivial difference

[iron aspen]

mm okay

[lost sonnet]

wait

there's this one post on reddit that has every engineering majors acceptance rate, and they even have one that categorizes all of them by gender and residency

[iron aspen]

i saw it but its def outdated

[lost sonnet]

I guess it gives an estimate though

[vocal socket]

just spoke to an alumni

20 years ago this place was the shit and i told him it still was

[carmine birch]

Wait so did you have to send a mid year report for usc or nah or did they just look at your final grades?

[edgy zinc]

Y

[sly mesa]

wdym

[crude violet]

switching to CE from EE is easy

[carmine birch]

Did apply ea to usc?

If so did they make you send a mid year report

[sly mesa]

my major isnt eligible for EA, my deadline was december 1

[vocal socket]

☢️

🚀

[carmine birch]

Ah okay well my point is still effective for this scenario did you have to send in a mid year report or no?

[subtle venture]

ok guys

so my uncle told me that cs+x programs are not worth it because employers would mainly consider the person with the cs degree not the cs+x degree

because they, in theory, have done more cs coursework

do you guys agree with this reasoning

also is it really ethical to leave out the X part on your resume

and just state BS in Computer Science because you're still getting the BS

except its from the LAS

[uncut pasture]

this is uh

not how they think of it

tmk most employers really look at it as a double major

besides in this stage of the tech industry, you probably want a second specialization outside of just CS

[mint marsh]

because

[subtle venture]

i see

yeah i didnt agree with that line of reasoning

[edgy zinc]

Why

[glad spade]

Your uncle isn't a good source 💀

[mint marsh]

because

i want to be part of the fighting illini!!

[edgy zinc]

Why

[mint marsh]

why not is the question

[hardy geyser]

horrendous mascot ngl

[mint marsh]

oh

i didnt even know what it was ngl

[subtle venture]

possibly

[vocal socket]

it was better before

it was like an indian chief

now its just the state 😭

[keen rapids]

yeah so they probably changed it for a good reason

even if the new one is lame its better than the old one

[vocal socket]

idk i thought the chief mascot looked pretty cool

[keen rapids]

i think its abt more than just looks

[sly mesa]

it was incredibly racist, thats why it was changed

it was a student (very likely white) in a costume that claimed to represent the illiniwek confederation but the regalia was actually from the sioux culture which wasnt involved in the illiniwek confederation in any way

[vocal socket]

oh alright

they could have found something cooler than illini tbh

[crude violet]

we dont have one

some people are trying to make the kingfisher our mascot but the alumni are gonna get pissed off and so they wont pass it because they need their donations

[mint marsh]

uiuc let me innn

pls

pls

pls

[fervent slate]

so real

[earnest forge]

this is likely not true. for internships and jobs the recruiter is mainly looking to see if the person has the skills and previous experience needed to actually do the job

cs is a very broad subject and you dont only need to be a cs major to know cs

thats why cs+x is quite nice bcs you can specialize in a field where cs is being applied instead of the general swe job

and regardless of cs+x or cs almost all of my friends have some type of research or internship lined up

[subtle venture]

I see

[subtle venture]

Do they have it in their X, in regular CS, or both?

[earnest forge]

both if you have above a 3.7 gpa its not hard to get some type of research by the end of sophomore year and internship wise if you apply a lot starting from the start of summer youll probably get something by jan or feb

[subtle venture]

alr

[rare badger]

CS + X majors get equal resources as CS majors

[subtle venture]

bet

[subtle venture]

what do you think of purposefully leaving out the X on the resume

and just stating BS in Computer Science

[viscid prawn]

untruthful, tbh

[subtle venture]

hmm yea

[viscid prawn]

its not a double degree, you didn't earn a degree in CS and a degree in your X. You earned a CS + X degree

[subtle venture]

yea

[sly mesa]

employers aren’t going to view the fact that you learned MORE than just cs negatively lmfao

[subtle venture]

alright lol

[mental crescent]

anyone know when decisions dropping? I've seen some say mid december but their website said jan 21st or something

[subtle venture]

EA drops jan 31st

[mental crescent]

Thanks

[subtle venture]

np

uh whats with the 38.5 and stuff

[floral quail]

uh

i think it's that weird scale out of 40 that nobody gives a fuck about

[subtle venture]

oh

[sly mesa]

it’s one of your sub scores

[viscid prawn]

Idk, I don't have all that

[tardy stirrup]

What's the general consensus on admission chances for rd cs or cs+x

[hollow saddle]

Odds are generally higher with CS+X but make sure to actually have an interest in your X

[tardy stirrup]

what counts as interest

to uiuc

[dark plaza]

why do i have none of that

this is it

[hollow saddle]

kinda boils down to whether you have experiences with an X that you could talk about

[tardy stirrup]

okay tysm

Is it easy switching around the X part once ur admitted

[subtle venture]

i sent three test scores

oops

(they consider highest score right)

[willow drum]

yes

[subtle venture]

alr

[mint marsh]

oh yea how does it work w out the superscore but they look at section scores

idk

uiuc let me in

does anyone know the econ acceptance rate 😍

[dense wing]

chances of CS oos 4.1 w gpa 🙏

[tired basin]

Good question

I have my highest math, highest reading, then my non superscored sum. Idk if they consider highest.

[visual heron]

no chance me

[tired basin]

between 0 and 100

[mint marsh]

chance me founder of the university

[mint marsh]

i hope

[slate socket]

They mostly consider highest non superscored

[tired basin]

i don't have subscores for that

[rapid tangle]

mane im scared

sunday right?

[keen holly]

wait actually?

[subtle venture]

No

It comes out Jan 31st

Dunno where y'all are getting the info from

Or they're rolling out decisions by major

[rapid tangle]

No

I’m goofy

[keen holly]

damn that was scary

[tired basin]

Are you intl

Yes

Competition lol

Yeah

I hope we both get in

IL

Only thing I have going for me

[cold tiger]

who here applied for data sci and informatics

[hollow saddle]

Yeah definitely

[hollow saddle]

Yeah I haven’t heard it being terribly difficult or anything

You would just need to take the necessary coursework and meet grade requirements I believe

[slate socket]

Computer eng negs

Bro can’t deal with reality

[iron aspen]

agree

[mint marsh]

how much does in state help 🙏

better be a lot

[keen rapids]

i love being in-state ❤️

[tired basin]

Idk I hope a lot

[mint marsh]

L

jk ur not missing much

[mint marsh]

ong <3

[tired basin]

Can instate female cancel out my GPA?

[mint marsh]

bro what 😭

this is crazy

whats ur gpa

[tired basin]

It’s a joke

[mint marsh]

guys why is gies so selective im gonna kms

thankfully econ is more ez to get into

but still

[tired basin]

4.15W

[mint marsh]

do u have uw

?

[tired basin]

Bad lol

They also recalculate for academic classes so I’m even more cooked

[mint marsh]

no like why does gies have a lower acc rate than grainger now

[mint marsh]

what r u applying for

[tired basin]

Math CS

[mint marsh]

oh

idk then

are u within the middle 50% range

[tired basin]

How do I find that

[mint marsh]

https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/apply/freshman/profile

are u doing cs + x

idk which one that would be

[tired basin]

Las yes, Grainger no

And sat is way above

[mint marsh]

real

[tired basin]

How are you above if it’s 4.0

[mint marsh]

do u think sat would get me rejected if its in this range

ayy 3.95 gang

ok 0.01 away

alrr

uiuc let me in day 1000

[tired basin]

Pleaseeee

Do they ever release decisions early?

[dense wing]

2.6w 840 sat will i get in

[tired basin]

Yes

[dense wing]

lets go!

[sly mesa]

being in-state for any public helps a lot

some states it’s near-impossible to get in if you’re oos (uta has to have 93% in-state students and unc has to have ~80% in-state)

70-75% of students at uiuc are in-state

[mint marsh]

yipeee

ok i swear my school has terrible UIUC #s

like one kid went 💀 thirs yr

[plain bluff]

im in state too

hope i get in

[subtle venture]

fr

[subtle venture]

fr

ch*mistry

[visual heron]

dude

i have finals

dont release decsions until jan pls

[vocal socket]

I HATE CHEMISTRY

FUCK CHEMISTRY

!!!!

I need a 5 so I NEVER have to take it again.

[subtle venture]

ME TOO

TWINS

I HATE CHEMISTRY TOO

BECAUSE ITS AN L SUBJECT

[subtle venture]

i did not study for the exam at all

i somehow got a 3

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1198778150432288798/1216948151412588604/unknown-2-1.gif

L

[vocal socket]

rippppppppp

my teacher's 5 rate is 95% but his grades are in the 80s for most of his students

brother is underemployed HARD

hes super smart but rlly sassy and annoying ngl

[subtle venture]

no like

for the amount of prep i did

i'll take that 3

(i did not study at all)

[vocal socket]

fr

im gonna study

i do NOT wanna do that again

EVER

I HATE CHEMISTRY

[subtle venture]

me neither

[vocal socket]

physics on the other hand ...

[subtle venture]

i hate chemistry too

[vocal socket]

😍

[subtle venture]

yk whats even worse

[plain bluff]

chem is better than physics imo

[vocal socket]

cap

cappppppppp

[subtle venture]

i got tested on organic chemistry after the ap test

[vocal socket]

physics is art

[subtle venture]

two quizzes and a whole ass unit test

[vocal socket]

there r kids taking orgo and ap chem at the same time

it's GENUINELY cooked

for them

[subtle venture]

orgo is genuinely the devil's spawn of academic subjects

ive never hated another subject that much before

[vocal socket]

everyone says our teacher should be like making bank in an actual chemical job

cuz hes low k a genius

and he just flexes on us ngl 😭

i think ur just a nerd ngl

but thats okay .

we all have our own academic interests., u just have the wrong one

🙏

OKAY

OKAY

freakmode 247 i forgot

chemistry freak is a different type of freakish ngl

fr

[uncut pasture]

my friend's taking orgo at cc and he has to go to lab like 4 times a week

hellish

like 8 extra hours of class

😭

me a gigachad who got 10 credit hours with only like 1.5 hour outside of class last sem

[keen rapids]

archaic does not mean obsolete! verifiably vexing parable of inquietude

[uncut pasture]

i expected it to be pronounced facinórous instead of facínorous

[keen rapids]

latin borrowings are strange like that

took me awhile to read the accents since im so used to looking at ipa 😭

[uncut pasture]

ipa for english is terrifying

it betrays my regional accent

so

or lack thereof

[keen rapids]

english is bad, but french is so much worse

[uncut pasture]

french ipa is fine tbh

quebec french is a bit weird but its less varying

[keen rapids]

there's no way

[uncut pasture]

yeah the only thing that trips me is liaison

or, lack thereof

[keen rapids]

its like "or-durve"

WHAT

honestly fair
charlemagne really made a mistake when he divvied up his empire

[uncut pasture]

i've been prononucing it [oɻ.dɪvˈwae̯ɻ] for the longest time

oar-div-wire

[keen rapids]

NOOO

[uncut pasture]

im not bougie son there's no reason for me to use the word

[keen rapids]

i think my spelling bee is showing because i learned that word as one of my flashcards ages ago

[keen rapids]

entirely valid

literally though
like who said it was okay to make an entire word out of vowels

french is not okay

[uncut pasture]

oiseaux is an amazing word

i love it

[subtle venture]

TRUE

name this shit right now dawg

[keen rapids]

oh no

[vocal socket]

CHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCH

[subtle venture]

factual

i forgot to add functional groups my bad

[keen rapids]

we can't get more carbohydrate than this

well. oxygen
but we dont discuss oxygen

[vocal socket]

me when -OH walks into the hydrocarbon:

https://tenor.com/view/bond-spectre-gif-15134362462635440808

[subtle venture]

the hydrocarbon says, "oh!"

ahahahah so funny

[vocal socket]

hah hah hah (kill me)

[subtle venture]

😐 😐 😐

holy shit you acc did it

(idk i made up a random molecule)

https://tenor.com/view/joker-batman-the-joker-why-so-serious-gif-14263650074740919861

[safe cairn]

how is this different from casting spells and uttering curses

wizardposting in disguise

is this an execution spell or is it cold medicine

sigh i’m going to die arent i

[light pasture]

omg yhat was me last year

IT WAS CHILL

[regal shard]

chem hate ???

[keen rapids]

see this is why chemistry is the most evil stem field (other than biology)

physics doesn't have curse uttering and cardiovascular distress

[vocal socket]

chemical engineers when they have to chemically engineer

tbh nuclear engineering >>>>>>>>>

we're way cooler

UIUC nukes represent ..!

(no one else)

[keen rapids]

yeah so thats easy actually (sorry)

[vocal socket]

physics mentioned

https://tenor.com/view/ap-physics-c-electricty-magnetism-e%26m-inducted-current-gif-3769229245358938910

[subtle venture]

physics > chem

ez

im bad at both but i like physics so much more

[light pasture]

nahhh no way

[sinful dagger]

generally, when do ea decision is released?

[little haven]

January 31

[dark plaza]

it is allowed (sorta like benzoic acid is allowed but its technically "benzene carboxylic acid")

but unlike di/tri the iso is actually counted in the alphabetical order part

[subtle venture]

uiuc let me in

[tardy stirrup]

uiuc dont let him in

[subtle venture]

freak you bro

UIUC LET ME IN SO THAT MY INDIAN PARENTS CAN BRAG TO MY INDIAN UNCLES AND AUNTS THAT I COPPED A T20 SCHOOL (T5 FOR CS)

😭 🙏

[hardy geyser]

wait so i can say purdue is a t20 (t5 in my major)?

only 5 schools have ai

[subtle venture]

LMFAO

but isnt uiuc a t20 overal tho

or nah

[hardy geyser]

nah

[subtle venture]

damn

[hardy geyser]

its 40something iirc

[subtle venture]

so its equal to rutgers

[hardy geyser]

mb, 33

[subtle venture]

except its cracked at cs

[subtle venture]

slightly above rutgers

[tardy stirrup]

bro

im Indian too

Here's my plan

Go to howard

Tell everyone I'm at Harvard

[subtle venture]

nah atp just pull up to cornell college iowa

[tardy stirrup]

Lmao that's my safety

[tired basin]

Anyone else get a financial aid email?

[viscid prawn]

yup

[mint marsh]

ish

LMAOO i got a sticker from them and my asian parents were like is this harvard

uiuc let me in ty

[plain bluff]

bro someones gonna jinx if u keep saying that 😭

[hardy geyser]

https://tenor.com/view/glaze-gif-8311813170669205912

[mint marsh]

ok

:(

[mint marsh]

yes

they'll let me in

[iron aspen]

uiuc

hello

i hate ur essay

[earnest forge]

my essay was kind of trash so you all will be alright

[opaque girder]

can i see see

[iron aspen]

is this real or fakeh

[subtle venture]

fake

bro

guys

its not that hard

just trust the portal guys 😭 😭 😭

[iron aspen]

jan 31

[iron aspen]

ion trust portal

[subtle venture]

mods please pin this or something

[viscid prawn]

wait really???

this is on UIUC website

[mental crescent]

Hmmmmm nah i think its coming out mid December

[onyx flax]

lemme check what we had for last year

bc it released like 1/24 last year or something

but if it said the same date on the portal, we'll add it to #📆-decision-dates and will pin

[iron aspen]

do not

[onyx flax]

@little haven was this accurate last year

[little haven]

Yes

It’s alr in #📆-decision-dates

[mint marsh]

me asf

bro it was hot garbage lmao

[onyx flax]

oh mb😭

[mint marsh]

bc i hate why major essays and it was all why major

[mint marsh]

thank god

[sly mesa]

did you ask chatgpt what the decision date is

[iron aspen]

no my friend sent me ts

it was from collegevine so i do NOT trust it

[sly mesa]

yeah no lol it’s what’s in your portal

uiuc chill as hell they actually tell people when they’ll find out instead of just giving a vague answer

[subtle venture]

they just lowkey chill guys fr

https://tenor.com/view/chill-guy-chill-guy-just-a-chill-guy-relax-gif-1579445140409713118

[mint marsh]

guys what time is the decision tho

like

[odd quartz]

unknown

[mint marsh]

ok

man

im scared

if i get rejected from uiuc as in state econ major bro 😭 over

[sly mesa]

it was like 5pm cst iirc

uiuc had my favorite portal

[vocal socket]

my favorite portal rn is georgia tech

[sly mesa]

i have a video of it somewhere but they play the fight song when you get in

[mint marsh]

ok

hmm so

its not a letter no

do u log in and it shows up in ur face

tryna mentally prepare myself

[sly mesa]

no you have to click on the button that says you have a status update

[mint marsh]

oh okayy

[hardy geyser]

the uiuc rejection is brutal

it just says

Application Status: Denied

[sly mesa]

damn

[safe cairn]

wtf that's so cruel

[sly mesa]

wait that’s lowkey heartbreaking

the acceptance was so cool that even my die hard penn stater parents were hype

[hardy geyser]

yea it was horrible

[hardy geyser]

yea the acceptance page is hella cool

[red anchor]

is it for out of state ea too decisions today??

[subtle venture]

uiuc releases decisions today?

no

[sharp niche]

end of january

[subtle venture]

why are they taking that long bruh

[sharp niche]

suspense

or maybe it’s cuz a buncha people apply

isn’t their population bigger than a small town?

[plain bluff]

my motivation is to put "uiuc'29" in my insta bio

[earnest forge]

this is one of them. it sounds like chatgpt wrote it before chatgpt existed

[opaque girder]

ahaha

damn

similar to my writing

[earnest forge]

lol

[subtle venture]

NO WAY

NO WAY YOU GOT IN WITH THAT BRO 😭

[iron aspen]

THERES HOPE

he prolly was a camper and has a 1600 4.0uw

[mint marsh]

OH THANK GODDD

WE GETTIN IN CHAT

(sorry)

[opaque girder]

[earnest forge]

lol the essays had nothing to do with it, I actually didnt know much about uiuc until after I got accepted

I had many awards, great grades and ecs

which covered for the essays probably

[balmy prism]

why are some places saying uiuc decision comes out mid december

[sly mesa]

plural for freshman year goes insane

[sly mesa]

because people lie on the internet

the decision date is the date in your portal

[earnest forge]

this is why i did engineering

[spring cipher]

this makes me hopeful

[queen cipher]

Hey

[uncut pasture]

why yall cooking bro 😭

[mint marsh]

im sorry guys i neededhope

[earnest forge]

its all good my essays were pretty bad

also realistically 150 words is probably not going to make a big impact on the decision

[subtle venture]

my common app is literally all about the X part of my cs+x major

if uiuc senpai does not take me im gonna crash out

[west tide]

what’s up illinoans

[mint marsh]

are u in state @earnest forge

or oos

[mint marsh]

thank god brother

bro i better be getting into uiuc in one month + 18 days

[uncut pasture]

man im having second thoughts

i should have done CE or EE

ahhh

if i got to UIUC im going to try swithcing from ling+CS into CE

😭

[light pasture]

why do you wanna switch?

[uncut pasture]

semi conductor stuff

and CE lets u pivot to more things

[light pasture]

ahh i see

[rare badger]

You can also take the new semiconductor minor

recently ECE department partnered with Samsung, made a brand new semiconductor minor

https://grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories/59213

[uncut pasture]

DAMN

[subtle venture]

the one thing stopping me from applying as a computer engineering major at places is the chem requirement

[uncut pasture]

ngl i like chem

[subtle venture]

ive had such a traumatic experience with chem

junior year was not fun at all

ap cs a was my saving grace

genuinely the only class i enjoyed that year

calc was pretty alright tho

[subtle venture]

alongside a cs elective

[rare badger]

huhh computer engineeering does not have chem requirement

at least at uiuc

[subtle venture]

doesnt grainger have it?

[rare badger]

electrical engineering does

[subtle venture]

either way im still ass at physics

even tho i kinda like it

[rare badger]

I think the only majors without chem requirement is CS and Compe

[subtle venture]

ohh ok

[rare badger]

Also if you guys are curious about major classes and grad requirements, go here:

http://catalog.illinois.edu/undergraduate/

search up ur major

[earnest forge]

oos

[earnest forge]

what did you apply for

[earnest forge]

if you like semiconductors do EE. CE requires you to do coding classes and lot of my ee friends did not like it at all

[earnest forge]

also rn is probably an excellent time to do ee stuff bcs of the major investments in quantum and microelectronics and by the time all of you graduate the investments rn will finally get built

one of the major ones: https://insidehpc.com/2024/12/ibm-and-state-of-illinois-announce-quantum-initiative/

there is also a new google office being built in chicago so...

[rare badger]

yeaa i saw thatt very exciting

we are also very strong in quantum

[tawny sphinx]

is RD for CS+X that bad?

[uncut pasture]

i want to do both

i want to do both theoretical CS and something hardware related

[mint marsh]

uhh gies first choice and econ 2nd

no hope for gies but hopefully econ bro 😭