<p>My girlfriend applied for the program and the website says that invitations start going out this month, she is an incredible candidate and I am confident she will be accepted but have any of you heard back from them?</p>
<p>My daughter applied. She is OOS… 33 ACT… 100+ avg.
We are anxiously waiting</p>
<p>Our son was also accepted. Now he is waiting to hear Honors’ result. We are OOS. If he gets into Hon. program, we will bite the bullet of OOS fee. But worried about housing as we have not applied yet. We are waiting for the results from some other colleges too.</p>
<p>foreverdad,</p>
<p>You son was already accepted into Eng School? When did you hear? We have not heard anything yet?</p>
<p>What does EHP offer? Is it really worth going to UT for, if you are OOS?</p>
<p>Ut austin hands out very little freshman scholarships but lots of internal scholarships; however, competition is steep at the school and honors students ALWAYS get first priority for the scholarship money. I don’t know if this information is online but it was told to Natural Science honor admits during our presentation day and what not. I should add that Engineering Honors is NOT curriculum based like the other honors programs at ut. This will mean engineering honor students might not get the very small class sizes that other honor students get but I doubt that it would affect the quality of the curriculum much since Cockrell is such a highly ranked and respected engineering school. Honors students at ut are also, by default, admitted into the competitive Research Methods class first semester which is the mandatory first step in the Freshman Research Initiative, a program where freshman can choose streams of research to work in with upperclassmen under the wider umbrella of a professors research. Students who’s findings are original and new are allowed to publish. This is the best part in my opinion, especially if you want to do research in your future. The initiative is optional though. The rest of the perks are pretty standard to a lot of honors programs: personal advisors, honors housing, etc. also the freshman research initiative courses and the research you conduct in it all count towards your majors credit hours. I don’t know more specifics about engineering honors because I applied to natural science honors and plan 2, but if anyone has more questions feel free to pm me.</p>
<p>@ Dagordo:
Our son applied around Nov 28, and his status was changed to admitted around the end of January. We also received paper copies by mail about a week later. </p>
<p>His admission is in Chem Eng.</p>
<p>Thanks foreverdad… My daughter applied for Biomedical. We applied in Oct… Still waiting.
Hopefully, just a few more days!</p>
<p>Just spoke on the phone with the Engineering Honors office. The woman told me they hope to send out decisions hopefully by the end of THIS MONTH, and if not it will be early March. This pretty much dispels the rumor that the decisions would be sent in April that I read in another thread.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>Any info as of late?</p>
<p>Got an email about an hour ago:</p>
<p>" Dear *****,</p>
<p>I am writing to provide you an update on the status of your Engineering Honors Program (EHP) application. The Cockrell School of Engineering is still conducting our review of applicants. At this time, no decisions related to the EHP have been released to any future students.</p>
<p>We sincerely hope to conclude all reviews within the next two weeks. Any students invited to join the Engineering Honors Program will receive an invitation letter in the mail. All other applicants will be notified of their status by email.</p>
<p>Thank you for your patience! I know waiting can be challenging. We hope to be in contact with you again very soon."</p>
<p>Hopefully this means by the end of next week decisions will be out. The woman I called last week did seriously say that they should be out by tomorrow but I guess that’s just not the case.</p>