Change Me: Rutgers Honors College

ACT: 32
SAT Math II: 780

GPA (weighted): 100 (I don’t believe my school even sends unweighted but its like a 96 or 97 I think)

School doesn’t have class ranking (there’s only 26 of us)

coursework:
APs taken: Lang & Comp, Chem, APUSH, Calc BC, Physics C, Lit & Comp
not an AP but AP caliber: Calc 3
(AP tests: Lang-5; Chem-4; APUSH-4; Calc BC-5, AB subscore- 5)
I’ve also only ever taken Honors classes (unless there was no option of honors i.e. art classes)

Other creds:
-senior class VP

-honor societies: National, English, Math, Science, Spanish, Social Studies
-swim team all 4 years
-started science Olympiad club in sophomore year, also captain of science Olympiad team (have won medals and the team got 3rd place regionally our first year and second place our second year)
-I attend a selective school that takes only 26 people from the county a year (math, sci, and engineering program)
-have completed 80 hrs (so far) of a 100-hr internship with an architecture firm (the internship is a graduation req for my program)
-volunteer at a hospital for the past 2 summers and racked up 150+ hrs

I know my ACT score is kinda low for Honors Program ): I didn’t study very much for it.

Thank you in advance!

I think you have very good chance get into Honors College!!

Hey there. I’m actually currently a student in the Rutgers Honors College and I can say my stats/extracurriculars were very similar to yours. I took the SAT instead of the ACT so I can’t say anything on that field but your portfolio looks solid. Good luck!

Depends what school you applied to. Usually, each school at Rutgers selects the top 2% of admitted students to be part of the Honors College.