Aid situation in UIC - Fall 2006 students

Hi folks,
I seem to recieve a lot of emails already regarding the aid situation in UIC and guidance on admission. We in IGSA would like to clarify to important things,

1. We cannot speculate what the aid situation is going to be next year. However we wish to tell you that almost 95% of the incoming students in the Fall 2005 batch got some form of funding, roughly

60% - got grad assistanships
20% - got RA
10% - got tuition waivers
5% - got TA
and the rest 5% that would be at most 5 or 6 people did not manage aid for the first semester but i already hear that a few of them have got fundings. So i would speculate that fall 2005 batch was very lucky to get funding. Another fact is that we seriously did not expect the 120+ students would get aid but they managed. It is a game of luck and your efforts. And another fact is that not many folks i mean <2% of them got any sorts of funding from back in india. Hope you understand what i mean here.

2. I/we cannot comment anything on prof of a specific departments or in general about any departments. if you want to know about profs try pickaprof.com or try contacting seniors in your specifc departments, UIC_incoming primarily exists to help students with their app related queries such as enquiring your app status(to a very limited extent), helping out with filling up forms, giving some sort of help with forms and stuff regd visa and to a major extent to provide hosting and temp accomodation.

So please direct your queries accordingly.

Madhu Venkatesan
IGSA Board