The Deuce: LAMK

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

Nephew is down to Syracuse or Pitt - accepted to both * - Jersey April 16, 2026, 10:00:30
- Syracuse it is * - Jersey April 16, 2026, 19:50:02
  - ^5* - ATL Yesterday, 5:42:04
- Syracuse has to be out of this world expensive at this point. * - assassin April 16, 2026, 11:38:02
  - For 1 year of tuition you can probably buy a house in town.* - DT April 16, 2026, 19:50:58
  - He's getting a decent amount of grants from both schools - Jersey April 16, 2026, 12:01:23
sidejack: at what age did your kids know (or think they knew) what they wanted to do for a career? - lcubed April 16, 2026, 9:56:35
- Both my daughters were early high school - Stu April 16, 2026, 10:30:21
- My kid in grad school figured it out during her HS senior year. - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 10:04:15
LAMK - LovetheChief April 16, 2026, 9:27:11

^5* - ATL April 16, 2026, 9:34:18

Just found out on Monday that we hadn’t submitted all required financial aid paperwork to GWU - DT April 16, 2026, 9:24:32
- The Kafka Paradox - Sammich April 16, 2026, 9:49:36
- Twin Peaks: Firewall With Me* - Sammich April 16, 2026, 9:45:10
- I fully agree with all of your criticisms. And all centralized the application - ATL April 16, 2026, 9:33:44
My nephew* is picking Iowa State over Illinois. - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 8:33:05
- My nephew picked Western Carolina over Duke because he liked the view of the mountains* - Stu April 16, 2026, 12:00:08
- huh. significant gap in reputations/rankings. I would think some extra $ for UI would be worth it* - cpsteine April 16, 2026, 11:48:54
  - Think there's a lot to be said for where an 18 y/o is comfortable. - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 12:24:37
    - Aren't there just a few universities with actual Vet Med programs... - KingTalkyTiki April 16, 2026, 12:36:44
      - Yes. As far as getting admitted to a program... - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 13:05:50
        
        i think there's only one per state? did i make that up?* - assassin April 16, 2026, 13:06:45
        
        Less than that, it’s like 30-something. - Tortillini Yesterday, 6:34:18
        
        Think so. And do all states have a program?* - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 13:12:03
        
        I know there is one at Colorado State University. Don’t know of any others in the state.* - DocWalk20 April 16, 2026, 13:16:38
- There seems to be a trend of Illinois kids going to Iowa St, they are doing something right.* - gullit April 16, 2026, 10:38:16
  - they have dazzle. - tvillini April 16, 2026, 12:30:01
  - As an outsider who's got to witness it firsthand, their footprint in Chicago has blown up - KingTalkyTiki April 16, 2026, 10:52:18
    - Our HS (350 a class) send 5-7 there a year.* - Chicago1995 April 16, 2026, 12:26:30
    - 20 - 50 people? It was more like 2-5 people...* - DiamondDazzle April 16, 2026, 12:04:22
  - I have one nephew who’s going there next year, and another one will probably go there the year after - IlliniOllie April 16, 2026, 10:44:09
    - That tuition difference is a big factor.* - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 11:11:30
- My daughter made the same call. - Illiniphil April 16, 2026, 9:23:29
- Congrats to him.* - ATL April 16, 2026, 8:49:49
Congratulations to all in this thread! * - MtHoodIllini April 15, 2026, 20:45:51
mini accepted his offer to Florida - ATL April 15, 2026, 19:56:20
- Sweet!* - gvibes April 16, 2026, 12:04:12
- Go Gators!* - Chicago1995 April 16, 2026, 9:19:10
- Congrats* - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 8:33:32
- congrats to mini ! UF won out * - rozoben April 16, 2026, 2:15:18
- congrats! *does that gator chomp thingy with my arms** - ECEIllinois April 15, 2026, 23:56:22
- Congrats! Still playing his axe?* - MtHoodIllini April 15, 2026, 20:43:39
  - I wish he was. Another casualty of the move down here. He still has his Baby Taylor and a Takimene - ATL April 15, 2026, 20:50:06
- Congrats!* - Dilbert April 15, 2026, 20:36:40
- Awesome! Congrats.* - DT April 15, 2026, 20:25:03
- Awesome.* - nash April 15, 2026, 20:19:50
- Congrats!* - GMAW April 15, 2026, 20:12:54
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
  - I know a kid who transfered into to UI ME from a juco and is graduating in May. - EffinIllini April 16, 2026, 8:37:53
- 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
  - pretty important for semiconductor manufacturing, probably* - ECEIllinois April 15, 2026, 23:57:32
    - Yep. Now there's a huge trial fab at UIUC on the Beckman quad but in the 1990s UIUC was - ATL April 16, 2026, 5:57:39
- 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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