The Deuce: Congrats to Mini . These public admissions have been brutal this year.

UIUC regular decision results are out - nash March 6, 2026, 16:38:05

kiddo got waitlisted at the beloved but got in at UT Austin Mech E, Purdue Eng Honors, Texas A&M - rozoben March 28, 2026, 16:23:38
- Congrats! All great schools, but damn must be super tough to get into U of I engineering these days* - ECEIllinois March 28, 2026, 20:32:11
- Great school!* - nash March 28, 2026, 20:29:04
- Congratulations to him! great choices and UT is an amazing place to go to school (having lived - ATL March 28, 2026, 16:32:28
My kid got waitlisted at Columbia & Yale, so Michigan for my kid unless there’s a waitlist miracle.* - nash March 28, 2026, 13:27:23
- who wouldn't want the chance to be a MICHIGAN (WO)MAN (tm)?* - ECEIllinois March 28, 2026, 20:30:27
  - Sigh. My fault for marrying one.* - nash March 28, 2026, 20:32:16
- wow ! all options are great !!! * - rozoben March 28, 2026, 16:28:35
Had lunch with the head of the UIUC MATSE department last Monday. They had 40% more kids accept last - ATL March 28, 2026, 11:46:55
- UIUC has one of the biggest MATSE class. Not surprised by how sought after MATSE is* - rozoben March 28, 2026, 16:30:18
- Who bought? - osklister March 28, 2026, 13:29:54
  - The development guy from Grainger* - ATL March 28, 2026, 13:30:55
College seems different now than when I went. Been doing visits with son. Country club feel to it.* - cpsteine March 28, 2026, 10:42:06
Sprout got into GWU but not Georgetown. - DT March 28, 2026, 8:06:51
- I’ll tell you something, man. Choosing Pitt’s GSPIA (now SPIA) over GWU’s Elliott School… - opossum jenkins March 28, 2026, 9:54:48
  - Did you ever have George Doherty as a prof at Pitt? - ShoeShineBoy March 28, 2026, 10:48:57
    - Sure did. Policy analysis seminar, if memory serves. He was big into the Rationale software. - opossum jenkins March 28, 2026, 13:22:38
      - That’s fantastic! - ShoeShineBoy March 28, 2026, 16:03:47
  - Yeah—I was willing to pay a significant premium for Georgetown. - DT March 28, 2026, 10:27:14
- Congrats on GW. I almost went there for law school over UF because it had a great reputation for IP - ATL March 28, 2026, 9:34:09
  - Right. I would’ve been at least $90K in the hole at GWU Elliott. Pitt GSPIA… - opossum jenkins March 28, 2026, 10:00:21
mini got into the joint UNC/NC State biomedical engineering program - ATL March 27, 2026, 22:06:58
- BTW BME is one of the most sought after Eng majors. For example at UT , its the toughest major to - rozoben March 28, 2026, 16:50:39
- Congrats to Mini . These public admissions have been brutal this year. - rozoben March 28, 2026, 16:28:05
- That’s awesome. Have never heard about that type of joint program* - illini21 March 28, 2026, 10:00:01
- Awesome. Congrats!* - DT March 28, 2026, 8:03:09
- Chapel Hill is amazing. I imagine that’ll be his home campus?* - Carl Spackler March 28, 2026, 7:06:17
  - No. I think NC State will be his home campus. He really didn’t even know about the. - ATL March 28, 2026, 9:29:40
- Great stuff.* - nash March 28, 2026, 7:03:35
- nice!* - ECEIllinois March 28, 2026, 0:08:44
- Looks like a cool program. Congrats!* - DocWalk20 March 27, 2026, 23:36:49
- Nice. Congrats! * - Tuscy March 27, 2026, 22:17:42
Congratulations to the kids. mini was denied from UIUC Engineering. :-( - ATL March 6, 2026, 18:47:27
- sorry to hear that. Sending good thoughts on him getting off the waitlist* - ECEIllinois March 7, 2026, 21:25:24
  - Thanks. It is what it is. Va Tech has a research team doing what he wants to do with his degree - ATL March 7, 2026, 21:32:45
- Seems like OOS is pretty difficult. My son got denied a couple of years ago - Ron McDon March 7, 2026, 11:32:05
  - Yeah. We’re not sweating it other than simply being disappointed with the result. - ATL March 7, 2026, 11:48:09
    - UGa? C'mon, there's only one SEC school worse than that, and it's Florida. :-) - osklister March 7, 2026, 12:07:10
      - Not all kids are Ole Miss material * - ATL March 7, 2026, 21:13:09
        
        I'm saying Miznoz. - osklister March 28, 2026, 13:30:46
- Waiting on nephew for that. Was deferred and all they could point to was a B+ in…. - LeatherneckIllini March 7, 2026, 11:12:28
- The whole thing is stressful for the kids and parents. - Dude_The March 7, 2026, 9:48:33
Little Dude got in for Biology. He's excited.* - Dude_The March 6, 2026, 16:47:30
- Excellent! Congrats to him.* - DT March 6, 2026, 19:12:31
- Congrats! Really the only time I "regret" not having kids is I don't have any to send to CU.* - Warrin'_Illini March 6, 2026, 16:54:05
- That was my major! Congrats that's awesome* - nash March 6, 2026, 16:52:39

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