chances at honors program

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>White male, Overland Park, KS (suburb of Kansas City)
Top 5% of class at very competitive public school ("public private" if you will)
GPA: 3.97 UW 4.5 W (only B is in P.E.; don't ask). Circa 350 or 400 kids in class
Tests: ACT: 32 (retaking this fall) SAT: 2230 (720 M, 740 CR, 770 W)
National Merit Semi-Finalist
AP: English Comp:4; Euro Hist.:4; US Hist.:5; Psychology: 5 </p>

<p>EC's: Soccer since freshman year, Track (11, 12), VP of Ping-Pong club, Pres. of NHS, Pres. of Spanish Honor Society, Officer/Founder Young Democrats Club, Science Olympiad (went to state last year), Presidents Volunteer Service Award (100+ hours), Freshmen mentor, Student Govt (11,12) among other things I can't remember I think. This summer I went to Spain with a group from my school, attended the National Association of Student Councils Conference (which my school is hosting in 2007), and am shadowing doctors and possibly doing volunteer work at a hospital.
Senior schedule: AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Gov, AP CA 4, Spanish 5, AP Physics</p>

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<p>The problem with your question is that there are numerous honors programs -- the campus honors program, the James Scholars program that each college has, and then numersous departmental honors programs. The campus honors program takes a limited number of top admittees (not sure but something like 125) and is difficult to get into; your chances may be low for that but still a possibility, particularly since a number of students just turn it down, e.g., engineering students since the honors course selection focuses on general education courses which engineering students care less about. The James Scholars program of each college generally depends on your class rank or test score for admission and thresholds needed differ among the colleges, but your SAT appears to be high enough to likely qualify you for that. Departmental honors programs vary in their criteria for admission and usually take only a limited number and it is difficult to say what your chances are for one of them.</p>