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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools like UGA, Purdue, UW Madison, and UIUC are extremely hard to get into now. I know people with straight As and 1500+ SAT scores who got denied from these places, even in-state. For engineering, [b]UIUC has a sub 10% acceptance rate[/b]. You have to be a top student to get into these state flagships [/quote]

Not true: only for CS.

UW Madison is a great school that’s surprisingly easy to get into. UIUC too, if not CS. UGA is a tier or two below the others.[/quote]

These schools are not hard to get into except for engineering at Purdue and UIUC, and even then Purdue is easier.[/quote]

+1. "Not hard to get into" [b]as compared with trying to land a t20[/b]. I have an engineering kid at UW–Madison OOS who is having a great time learning/growing but I must admit that the school isn't too hard to get into compared to these crazy single-digit acceptance rate schools.[/quote]
I think the cutoff happens at T30: there seems to be a cliff at that point — for a normal high stats kid.[/quote]

What schools are T30? NYU and Wisconsin? USC?[/quote]

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