<p>When do Honors College decisions come out?</p>
<p>Last year, our son received his acceptance letter on Christmas Eve.</p>
<p>I got mine today!!</p>
<p>According to my roommate (how she knows I have no idea) the letters were mailed out yesterday.</p>
<p>The letter head had December 19, 2011</p>
<p>Our daughter received hers today (Ohio)!</p>
<p>They did post on the official FB page from admissions that first round of Honors College Letters were mailed yesterday and will continue to go out until February.</p>
<p>Received in Florida =)</p>
<p>My daughter received her Honors College acceptance leter today, So happy!!</p>
<p>Very happy daughter received her Honors College letter today.</p>
<p>Congrats everyone! If you have any questions about the Honors College, please let me know.</p>
<p>@jmarietol…what made you choose USC and specifically the Honors College? What do you like most about it? least? Are you a McNair Scholar? Thanks for any info, our D has been accepted into Honors College and just bought plane tix to come visit next month.</p>
<p>To be completely honest, my initial interest in USC came because of the price. My parents and I couldn’t afford my top choice, and I was not interested in taking out a ridiculous amount of student loans. I got a nice scholarship from USC (not McNair) and from my department (note: see if there any scholarships specific for your major, it really helps out). </p>
<p>But when I visited for Scholars’ Weekend (if you get a scholarship, you’ll be invited to this event at the end of March) and I fell in love with the school. I loved the Honors Residence, the engineering building (I’m a chemical engineering major), pretty much everything about the campus. For me, I get the academics I want from the Honors College while also going to a school with strong athletics and plenty of other things to do outside the classroom so it’s not always about school.</p>
<p>What I like least about USC is probably the location. I always imagined going to school in a big city, and Columbia really doesn’t fit that bill. But I’ve gotten used to it and my mom probably sleeps better at night knowing I’m not walking the streets of NYC.</p>
<p>I’m not always thrilled about having to deal with all the requirements and stress from my major and from the Honors College. Chemical engineering is one of the toughest undergraduate majors out there, and then I have the extra stress associated with honors classes and fulfilling honors requirements. But it’s something I signed up for and I felt like I could handle everything a little better as the semester went forward.</p>
<p>Jmarietol: If you don’t mind me asking - what exactly are the requirements for graduating from the Honors College? My daughter received her acceptance to the HC in December and she is very excited about the small class size of the honors classes and the residence hall looks awesome, but we realized that we aren’t really clear on what she would be signing up for academically. Specifically, how many honors classes must you take and is it difficult to fulfill the requirements? Have you found that there are a lot of honors classes available? Thanks for any info!</p>
<p>Here is the student handbook for SCHC: [Student</a> Handbook | Honors College - University of South Carolina](<a href=“South Carolina Honors College - South Carolina Honors College | University of South Carolina”>South Carolina Honors College - South Carolina Honors College | University of South Carolina)</p>
<p>I’ve only done one semester obviously, but from what my advisor has told me it shouldn’t be a problem to get all my honors credits. You can honorize AP credits if you get a B+ in an honors class in the same type of subject. For instance, if you get an A in Honors Chem at USC, it will honorize your credits from AP Physics, AP Bio, or AP Chem (only one of these though). So if you come in with a few AP classes and take enough SCHC classes, you should be fine.</p>
<p>There are usually enough honors classes for what you want. The best part about those classes is that they’ll sign you up for them when you get advised. For instance, I had my spring advisement in November and when I left I was signed up for the 2 honors classes I’m taking this semester coming up.</p>
<p>I haven’t really run into any upperclassmen who have found it difficult to deal with honors requirements, no matter what their major is.</p>
<p>BTW the website for the HC that I posted earlier has some info you might find interesting. Course listings and stuff like that.</p>
<p>Thanks so much jmarietol. That is exactly the information I was looking for! I looked through the course listings and there did seem to be quite a few options and some interesting sounding courses.</p>
<p>Thank you for the “honorizing” information. It sounds like if you have credit for AP Bio and you take honors chem and do well, your bio credit turns into honors credit. That would be helpful.</p>
<p>That’s exactly right. It’s the same with all the other subjects too, I just used science because I’ve taken more sciences than anything else. My friend took English 200-something and it honorized her AP Eng Lit credit, or English 101. So if you take all the right classes, then you can get a lot of honors credits from your work in high school.</p>
<p>@jmarietol I was wondering if any students from the nonhonors USC were able transfer into the Honors College. If there are any, how many were accepted?</p>
<p>Yes, you can apply to the honors college after you’re at USC. How you go about doing that and how many get in, I honestly have no idea.</p>