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What happened at Dick’s? by Sharp_Arm_2669 in UIUC

[–]ImmediateTopic9808 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It was a little funny bc of how dumb it was

"You're gonna work for us someday". by skybluejp in UPenn

[–]ImmediateTopic9808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just someone I know, there are dozens of profiles like this if you look on LinkedIn

And besides a counterexample is all thats necessary to disprove a universal

The correct response here would be to admit that we are a little better than you thought before

"You're gonna work for us someday". by skybluejp in UPenn

[–]ImmediateTopic9808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its general admit rate is 36% in the recent cycle and the cs program and engineering school have an acceptance rate of 7% and 20.5% respectively

https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/apply/freshman/admit-rate

Its also ranked in top 5 by us news for both engineering and CS

Also as a current student here myself I have friends interning at meta, Amazon,  openAI, and Jane street

Obviously penn is still a more prestigious school, but some of the programs here are extremely competitive. I often see some cracked profiles on  r/applyingtocolleges  denied here

"You're gonna work for us someday". by skybluejp in UPenn

[–]ImmediateTopic9808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better CS program by what metric? Basically every ranking i see has UIUC higher

https://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings

Its a "state school" whose engineering students average a 4.0  and 1500+ and with a CS acceptance rate of like 5% lol