UIC- feel like home experience

I applied to around 8 [accepted 3, UIC and Rochester Institute of Technology and Oregon state university] there could be many reasons for my rejections but I strongly believe that it is due to my GPA. I have a GPA of 8.75 in india but to get a good college I think it is necessary to get at atleast above 9.2 GPA in india and college really doesn't matter. I don't remember the list of colleges which I have applied for.   This college had good research and at the time I came in, there were very good GA and TA programs, if you got a GA or TA, you were exempted from the college fees and you got a stipend of 2000 dollars per month, so my major motivation for taking this college was both the GA/TA programme and the good research and research which aligned with my focus of study. I have applied for the application from the college website and later I was accepted. it is all done on their college website. Majorly, it is given on the college website, so GRE and TOEFL are what I gave and I got the bare minimum to be selected. My overall admission experience was good but it took a lot of time for me to be accepted. There were not particular challenges which I faced; it was almost easy to do the process. I applied for the Fall 2023 intake for the graduate programme in Computer Science. The most notable factors which influenced my decisions were the robust research opportunities and the possibility of obtaining assistantships because they matched my professional and educational objectives. I applied in early November 2022 and included all components of my application, which consisted of a statement of purpose, several letters of recommendation, and GRE and TOEFL scores. A balance of weeks later, my application was considered complete and then changed to pending review, which I confirmed took approximately 3 months until I got the application confirmation....Read More

My uncle lives in Chicago so it was a pretty easy decision for me. The ranking of UIC is amazing and also, my uncle said its a good university and I also wanted to go there and I don't regret my decision one bit. Coming to UIC has been the best decision I made. A lot of courses are offered by UIC; you can check the catalog through their website; its pretty detailed. I took UX courses AI courses and computer algorithms because those are my areas of interest. My overall experience till now has been great....Read More

This is a premiere institute for research comes within 250 rank in the world....Read More

My fascination with science propelled me to choose Biotechnology for my under graduation. I decided to further study this course in detail by majoring in the medicinal side of biotechnology. I then started hunting for MS in Medical Biotechnology which was offered only by a few universities in the United States and the University of Illinois at Chicago was one among them....Read More

I chose this program because it is one of the most highly ranked programs in the field of health economics and outcomes research. The faculty members are widely recognized both nationally and internationally. Also, previous students from my undergrad college had attended this program and shared their positive experiences and highly recommended joining it....Read More

I applied to 10 colleges Accepted: University of North Carolina Charlotte, Arizona state University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Georgia state university Rejected: University of Florida, University of South Florida, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of SUNY Buffalo, California state University Long Beach (waitlisted initially), San Diego State University University of Florida, San Diego State University, and Umass Amherst were pretty competitive at that time and kind of ambitious for my profile. The SUNY Buffalo was only giving admission to experienced candidates while I was a fresher and there were a lot of applicants, heavy competition, similarly for CSULB. This college is kind of tied with ASU (ASU might still be better) but the fee waivers attracted me and are still a good decision. Apply, decision, acceptance, I20. Then formalities with OIS and financial support, etc. GRE, IELTS (320+ in GRE maximises chances of admission) minimum could be 310 and in IELTS 8 Overall academic experience is very easy. Not a big challenge, depends on the type of challenge you choose. The admission experience was smooth and very well guided. I applied during November/December of 2022 and got a decision in March 2023. The major factors you should keep in mind while applying are that trying to have a GRE of 320+ adds up a lot to your application (I am telling this because I have seen very few people with a GRE score below 315), projects, and experience add up (I didn't have experience, but it was totally fine). The process took 3 months; the decisions are out in March, mostly for the fall semester. And make sure to apply through the normal application, not the UIC global application (in general, consultancies apply through that as seats are mostly guaranteed). So what happens here is that the one’s who apply through UIC Global will not be eligible for assistantships, even if acquired waivers are not provided. So the application is given, then the decision is given by March; after that, a deposit has to be paid and an application for I-20; some formalities with the Office of International Services (everything will be guided by them)....Read More

I chose university of Illinois at Chicago because it was fairly close to home (I commuted about 3 hours a day every day) and the education was fairly affordable compared to the other colleges close to home....Read More