<p>Has anyone received their acceptance (hopefully not denial) letters for the barrett honors college?</p>
<p>D received acceptance today!</p>
<p>Can you tell us more about your D? OSS or ISS? Stats?</p>
<p>Well looks like they have started sending out the letters before the 10th. Keeping my fingers crossed!</p>
<p>Bump, anyone else receive their letters yet?</p>
<p>MyASU is showing the acceptances now. S got in!</p>
<p>Acceptances are online right now, I was accepted!</p>
<p>I got accepted! now time for a visit.</p>
<p>Interesting that Barratt require you to sign a contract!</p>
<p>What sort of contract? My memory is bad, can’t recall D had that. I remember the annual housing contract and the scholarship terms contract, but not a general Barrett contract. What does it say?</p>
<p>I know some schools have some sort of honor code contract that you have to sign. Maybe that’s it? </p>
<p>Yeah, part of the scholarship contract is agreeing to abide by the ‘student code of conduct.’ You agree that you understand they may yank scholarship if you violate. And agree to all the other terms also. But might there have been some other thing separate from the scholarship? Hmm. There is a separate piece of D’s scholarship that pays that $1000 annual Barrett fee for which she had to write someone a thank you note. Could there have been another contract for that? I’ll ask D, but she may not recall. How about you can tell us if they give you some contracts to sign. Unless Englishman stops back in with info explaining his cryptic comment.</p>
<p>Nothing cryptic, my DS11’s gf asked son to go over a Barratt contract for her before she signed, since her mom didn’t fully understand it. Just a little surprised they get these kids to sign contracts which they really don’t understand without really informing/explaining what it was for. </p>
<p>Also DS11’s bf’s brother is at ASU/Barrett and was in the Frat/TKE that was kicked out, he is now on suspension pending resolution of the action to be taken against the 40+ kids who attended the now imfamous “MLK Party”, word is they will all be allowed to stay at ASU and not be expelled!</p>
<p>Congratulations on all the acceptances! My D is a freshman in Barrett and loves all she is doing at ASU. She really enjoys most of her classes and her Human Event and Honors English classes last semester in particular. She also likes living in Barrett where she has made several like-minded friends who also take their studies seriously.</p>
<p>I have no idea what “contract” Englishman is referring to. The only contracts I recall were housing and maybe the scholarship requirement agreement but I think those came much later than January even though D was accepted in November. </p>
<p>There are the honors enrichment contracts where you choose to turn a regular class into an honors class by a contract with the professor. I wouldn’t think you would need someone to review those though. My S was accepted into Barrett and the only contract we’ve seen so far is for scholarship and housing/meal plan.</p>
<p>Barrett students are required to do 36 honors hours (includes the honors thesis hours) to graduate with the Barrett Honors designation. There are not enough classes with Honors designations to get 36 hours so they can do an Honors Contract with professors in a regular classes to then get honors credit. This is a very common practice in the honors programs we looked at. The amount of work can vary greatly from class to class and prof to prof so the student needs to do due diligence. My D has a class this semester in which the prof very clearly laid out the requirements but I would guess that others may not be so clear even with the published Barrett guidelines. I believe the basic contract is online but details are filled in by the professor and student in agreement.</p>
<p>Students and prospective students should also feel free to ask the Barrett office questions. We found them to be very nice and helpful.</p>