<p>Hey guys! First post on this website, hopefully I can get my questions answered! So I was admitted into CSE back in like October and I have yet to hear from the honors college while I have friends that have heard from their honors colleges (not necessarily CSE). I was wondering if people have been notified about being invited into the CSE honors college, and if I haven't is it safe to assume that I won't be getting into it? </p>
<p>My stats are: </p>
<p>33 composite ACT: 31 english, 32 math, 36 reading, 32 science
4.0968 weighted GPA
3.5806 unweighted GPA
~7 AP classes by the end of this year (senior year)
Some extracurriculars, but not many
From a north suburb of Chicago, if that matters</p>
<p>Also, have any fellow CSE people been notified about any scholarships? I have a LAS friend who got ~5k a year from Minnesota so I'm curious if any people from my school have heard anything.</p>
<p>Here’s a link that I found that gives the average class rank and the average ACT/SAT score for the honors students (from 2012) for each college:</p>
<p>As you can see, the averages for CSE are quite high. My daughter did receive a letter in the mail the other day giving her the Gold National Scholarship ($5250 per year) which covers the difference between instate and out of state tuition. She has not heard about honors. Although she has a very high class rank (about top 2% of her class) her ACT score is a few points below the average for CSE, so I suspect she won’t be offered honors. Which is fine because I am sure that CSE will be plenty challenging with out the added pressure of being in the honors program. We are thrilled that she was offered any type of merit aid at all.</p>
<p>ETA: Not sure if it is clear from my post, but my daughter was accepted into CSE. Also wanted to add that I think scholarships are based more on GPA/class rank than they are on ACT scores. Here is a link to the scholarships page:</p>
<p>It lists the primary factors as GPA, class rank, and then ACT/SAT score. The Gold National (which covers the full difference between in state and OOS tuition) and the Maroon National (which covers 50% of the difference between in state and OOS tuition) lists being in the top 10% of your graduating class as being the requirement for consideration for the scholarship.</p>
<p>nriende3, my son has similar stats and has also also been admitted to CSE since October. He also is waiting to hear about UHP and merit, so it looks like you and him are on similar lists. Additionally, it seems as if the others who have heard about UHP/merit are NMF/NMSF students. </p>
<p>In general, a lot of research I’ve done about UMN perks seems to indicate that class rank is an important consideration. Based on LadyHam’s comments, I do wonder if coming from a high school that doesn’t report rank is an issue.</p>
<p>It’s probably not an issue, as my son probably has UMN ranked 13th of the 13 schools to which he has applied, mainly due to the distance from NJ. But he could be easily swayed if the right maroon and gold envelope shows up in the mail, especially since he likes the U’s urban location, reputation, and climate.</p>
<p>My D was accepted into CSE honors beginning of Nov. But she applied very early, end of August. And her grades etc. are pretty high, 4.0 UW/35/2280, so it was probably an easy call for them. I would guess they will still be taking kids into honors for quite awhile, so don’t give up hope. She also received one scholarship award about the time she was accepted, but it is a NMF specific award. She only gets it if she becomes NMF.</p>
<p>mtown27 my daughter goes to the U and is also from NJ. She is in the Carlson honors and she loves it at the U. THey love out of state students especially from the east coast. My daughter received about 10k in merit money/year.</p>
<p>^ Exactly. My sons interest level in the U will increase dramatically with one or two more of the maroon and gold envelopes with Goldy’s smiling face.</p>
<p>Thanks everybody for the answers! I go to a pretty competitive high shool that doesn’t rank, so I hope that doesn’t screw up my chances for any merit aid from the school! I read everybody gets informed about honors by March so I guess I’ll just have to wait until then to find out.</p>
<p>Even though your school doesn’t rank, your HS profile will have supplied deciles of the grade distribution from your class. From this, your placement will be known down to some reasonable level of accuracy.</p>
<p>Ah just searched through my schools website and the lowest in the 90-95 percentile is like a 4.4 weighted gpa. So I guess my hopes of a scholarship is gone unless Minnesota recognizes that at many other high schools my 4.1 weighted would be in the top ten percent…</p>
<p>I’ve also been accepted to the CSE and waiting to hear for merit/honors. I was admitted in early November and the others from my school who have been accepted are also waiting on merit/honors. However, I’m coming from a competitive public school in New York which doesn’t report rank. Will this lower my chances of merit or honors? Getting merit aid and honors would probably end up being deciding factors in whether or not i’ll be attending the U especially since they are now reevaluating their OOS tuition. Thoughts?</p>
<p>I have no inside info, but have to believe that any decision to increase OOS tuition would not include those already being considered or current students. We are in state and my S is an honor student at the U of Minn in CSE. One of the reasons we selected the U was because of the Honors Program and all the wonderful OOS kids that would (and have) become his peers.</p>