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Mr. Quinn said the Admissions Review Commission would look into 800 applicants who, as first reported by The Chicago Tribune, won spots at the university’s Urbana-Champaign campus after intervention from state lawmakers and university trustees. The Tribune said these students, whose names appeared on an internal list, were admitted even though some did not meet the university’s admission standards.
“We want to make sure that the taxpayers, parents and students of Illinois know there is no kind of special process where individuals who have less qualifications are admitted because of their political influence or clout,” Mr. Quinn, a Democrat, said. The University of Illinois, which has three campuses, is considered the state’s most prestigious public university.
The commission, which is to complete its work in 60 days, will be led by Abner Mikva, a retired federal judge and former state legislator and congressman, who had been a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Mikva said the panel should not be as concerned about meting out punishment as with ensuring that any patronage influence in the university’s admission practices would not be tolerated.
Don't believe the hype! All of these so-called new and independent women who claim 40 is the new 30 are lying! 40 is 40 period speaking of which, they get worse at 40. I am 43 years old and I am in good shape and not bad on the eyes either, but at night my bones ache, I have restless leg syndrome, I snore loud.
Work is no picnic either. Everyday I am reminded that I am not 30 by some almost 30 retard who happens to be my superior without a clue constantly badgering me about minutia. Who are these idiots????????? I work as an admissions rep as if my morals are not already tainted enough. I dropped out of church, my finances are in the toilet and my children annoy the hell out of me... No!!!! I am not bitter-just real
So here is my plan. New job, hopefully something that does not involve ripping off unsuspecting neardowells. Maybe I will find something soon, but for now I am grateful to God for allowing me to weather yet another storm, one of which I am sure I could not have navigated at 30 something. Lately I have been spending a lot time on the computer which is why I started this blog. Somewhere out there someone can relate to me and if not it feels good to release all the crap I carry around in my head on a daily basis.
Today, I am just grateful.....I'd rather be 40 than pregnant!
To address those worries, U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Richard Herman on Tuesday met with Chicago-area high school counselors to explain why he wants to attract more out-of-state, minority and international students--and how that could help their students.
"Let me be clear about one thing: We are trying to create the best education for the students you send to us," Herman told the counselors. "This is why we are trying as hard as we can to attract the best students we can and those who give us as broad an experience as possible."
Among other goals, the University of Illinois' wide-ranging strategic plan calls for increasing the percentage of undergraduates who come from outside of Illinois to 15 percent, from 10 percent. The university has the smallest percentage of non-resident students of any Big 10 university, with seven of the public universities drawing more than 25 percent of their students from other states.
Herman also said he wants more students from the top 10 percent of their high school classes, a category in which Illinois ranks significantly lower than other public universities such as the University of Wisconsin, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.
Tom Higgins, a junior at private Morgan Park Academy on Chicago's South Side, questions the reasoning behind making a state university into a more elite institution.
"It is a state school and one expects that to be more open than private schools," said Higgins, who is considering applying to the U. of I. "Isn't the idea behind public education that education is supposed to be available to everyone?"
Herman said he's heard those concerns but won't let them affect his goal to make U. of I. the nation's premier public university, a plan that includes raising the academic selectivity and diversity of the student body.
The University of Illinois in Champaign received a record number of applications this year at 22,300. That's 12 percent more than last year.
As a result, U. of I. rejected more students this year than last, including some who in other years would have gotten in.
And officials put a record number of students—1,100—on the school's wait list.
The school attributes the increase to a jump in the number of high school students and to recruiting trips to high schools around the state.
For the first time, U. of I. recruiters visited schools in Peoria, East St. Louis and Rockford.
All I really have left to do is get my recommendations, talk to my counselor, and write my essay.
The essay is what I'm really thinking hard about.
Well, if all goes well, I'll know what college I'm going to by the middle of December. God I will be a wreck the day I get that letter. I probably won't even open it. I'll just hold on to it for a while. Maybe frame it until March. Sometimes its better not to know, and if I don't get in, I'm going to be really...disenheartened...
Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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