Accepted to LSA Honors

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<p>72 hour turn around. Wrote the essay during last weeks SNL because the skits were bad and I just wanted to watch the Black Eyed Peas. Proofed and eddited on sunday- submitted sunday night. Hadn't checked e-mail until now.
Here's the letter:</p>

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<p>Dear Molly,</p>

<p>Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you a place in the Honors Program in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the fall of 2010. After reviewing your UM application and Honors essay we think that you are well suited to our challenging academic program and vigorous intellectual community. The LSA Honors Program is all about providing opportunities for talented and interesting people to pursue ideas and understanding together. This email is your invitation to Honors—we very much hope you will join us.</p>

<p>As soon as you know your plans for next year, email us at <a href="mailto:honors.admissions@umich.edu">honors.admissions@umich.edu</a>. Please let us know whether or not you plan to come to the UM and join us in Honors: include your name and UMID number in your email. We need to hear from you no later than May 1, 2010, to reserve your place in the Honors Program. For our records, we would appreciate if you let us know where you are going to school if you do not plan to attend Michigan.</p>

<p>Please continue reading to learn more about
The Honors Program
Honors Housing
Visiting Honors
The Honors Program
The LSA Honors Program (Honors</a> - University of Michigan), as you know, is a four-year academic program that serves the best-prepared and most highly motivated students in LSA, about 10% of each entering class. First and foremost, we want to help you set and achieve the highest possible academic goals. The program’s curriculum offers a wide range of challenging courses in almost every department and Honors concentrations (majors) in every field in the College. We offer special seminars, Great Books for introductory composition, and direct involvement with faculty right from the start of your studies at Michigan . At least half of your classes in your first two years will be with other Honors students; once you’ve chosen a concentration, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue your own independent research project under the guidance of a faculty mentor, leading to an Honors senior thesis. </p>

<p>To help you take the greatest advantage of the rich opportunities at this leading research university, Honors advisors will meet with you individually beginning at Orientation and continuing throughout your time here. Being in Honors won’t change your graduation requirements for LSA, but we will help you find the most interesting ways to meet them.</p>

<p>The LSA Honors Program is also a lively community. There is, of course, no one interest that unites all Honors students, but a wide range of activities will enable you to choose what interests you. The program has an intellectual hub in the Perlman Honors Commons, where students and faculty come together for study, conversation, and events in truly beautiful surroundings. There are informal gatherings over lunch in the dining hall. A monthly “Lunch with Honors” gives our students direct contact with many of the remarkable people who work at or visit UM, such as Salman Rushdie, the international award winning novelist; John Beilein, UM Men’s Basketball Coach; the actors and directors from the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Whether in the Commons, the office, or the dining hall, conversation ranges from politics to Plato to YouTube. Of course, you’ll also find Honors students active in every part of the wider university community, from sports to poetry, from singing to sailing, from the Michigan Daily to the Marching Band. Whatever you choose to do, the LSA Honors Program will serve as the nucleus of your career at Michigan.
Honors Housing
You may to apply to live with other Honors students in designated rooms in South Quad (coed) or the Martha Cook Building (women only). Honors Housing is an option for students who wish to live with others who share a commitment to an active community and the life of the mind. There will be instructions regarding Honors Housing in the online Housing application available beginning in late March after a student’s enrollment deposit is paid. While we cannot guarantee you space in Honors Housing, if you complete your Housing Application by May 1, your application will be considered in the first drawing for room assignments. Go to the UHousing website for more information about the housing application process: UM</a> Undergraduate Housing - How to Apply for Undergraduate Housing.
Visiting Honors
Meanwhile, we encourage you to visit Ann Arbor and see the campus for yourself. The Campus Days program, which includes tours, classes, and information sessions, is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions during Winter Term. See your admissions packet or the Admissions office website (Office</a> of Undergraduate Admissions: Admitted Students) for information on Campus Days and how to register for a visit. While you are on campus, please come to the LSA Honors Program information session, held each Campus Day from 2:25 to 4:00 in our office in 1330 Mason Hall. We’ll describe the Honors Program in more detail and answer any questions you may have. We’d like to meet you.</p>

<p>We are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the program or about other aspects of life at Michigan. As you prepare to come to LSA Honors, you’ll find answers for many of your questions on our website: Honors</a> - University of Michigan, and feel free to call us at (734) 647-4486 or email us at <a href="mailto:honors.admissions@umich.edu">honors.admissions@umich.edu</a>.</p>

<p>We hope to hear from you soon that you plan to join us in honors, but please remember that you need to let us know your decision no later than May 1, 2010.</p>

<p>Sincerely,</p>

<p>Timothy McKay, Ph.D. Scott Kassner, Ph.D.
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics Assistant Director
Director</p>

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<p>Congrats! When did you send in your application?</p>

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<p>Sunday night. Looks like 72 hours later I was in because I didn’t check e-mail yesterday and found out tonight.</p>

<p>I guess I’m happy but it all really seemed too too fast.</p>

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<p>I have a few questions:</p>

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<li><p>Did you apply directly to LSA Honors or did you apply to Honors after getting accepted at LSA?</p></li>
<li><p>What date did you send your application in? Did you do Early Decision?</p></li>
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<p>I’m really worried because I sent in all my materials before Nov. 1st (I applied ED) and I still didn’t receive any notification. Sorry if I seem offensive in any way.</p>

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<p>Congrats! I’m in Honors and I’m enjoying it a lot. Actually, tonight we have our Yule Ball, designed after (you guessed it) the Yule Ball from Harry Potter. Woooot! So we get some fun events every now and then for Honors, and you always get awesome events for U of M overall. Plus, you get nice housing and a higher percentage of your classmates are smart. :)</p>

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<p>johnsyed-</p>

<p>You’re not being offensive at all. </p>

<p>I was accepted to LSA in the first round- app was complete in late September.
Next came an e-mail from LSA honors invite to apply- maybe a week after acceptance.
Saturday Night Live was awful on 11/14 so I wrote a rough draft essay instead.
Proofread/edited it on Sunday 11/15 and sent it in.
Got Honors acceptance on 11/19. I felt strange about the speed. </p>

<p>Don’t worry. I think my timing was just good. Like driving and not hitting any red lights. By now, the admissions office is probably swamped plus the holidays are coming up so people take vacations and all. Don’t read too much into it as long as you made the deadline and your app is complete.</p>

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<p>Hey! Finally another Honors admit. Are you planning on attending?</p>

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<p>Waiting to see if I win the scholarship lottery.
Congrats to you for getting in.</p>

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<p>Congratulations to you too :)</p>

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<p>Accepted to Honors too.</p>

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<p>How can I apply for honors?</p>

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<p>@dwitsdale: [Honors</a> - University of Michigan](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/honors/prospectivestudents]Honors”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/honors/prospectivestudents)</p>

<p>@srrinath: Congrats!</p>

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<p>how hard is it to get into honors? whats the average GPA or SAT?</p>

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<p>What were your stats, Molly?</p>

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<p>what are the benefits of being in the honors program? does it even affect your gpa at all?</p>

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<p>haha wow! that’s super fast!! congrats to you! :slight_smile: i’ll be applying to the honors college too. <em>keeping fingers crossed</em></p>

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<p>I’d also like to know the pro/cons of being in the Honors Program.</p>

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<p>There are a lot of pro/con threads about this so I advise looking them up. In short, the pros: smaller class sizes when taking honors specific classes (usually these sections will be taught by the professor or one of the better GSIs), honors housing (south quad is VERY nice), certain honors-only events (lunch with honors, etc), honors advising (some say this is better than regular advising, some say no different. In my experience, the biggest difference is they are much more willing to do unusual and sometimes inconvenient things for you – they fast-tracked some credits I needed to get on my transcript in like 15 minutes that usually takes up to a week). There really aren’t any “cons.” Some people dislike great books (me included) and some don’t like that you have to take X amount of honors classes/semester (I forget, somewhere around 2 classes). It is technically a 2 year program but the Director of the program told my orientation group that he “fully expects us all to write an honors thesis come Senior year.” Though you can do this without being in the program, I really can’t see a reason to not do honors.</p>

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<p>@Molly- I have seen you post on the UT, UGA, and Michigan forums. All of which schools that I’m applying to. Quick question, what state are you from, where else are you applying and where is your top school?</p>

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<p>can somebody tell me what the housing is like in south quad?
is it a social dorm?
or not, b/c the honors program has kids who are more devoted to studying?</p>

<p>ALSO.
location-wise, is South-quad or Mo-Jo a better location for a freshman?</p>