@checht , yes, the honors showed up in the application tracker portal. Plus I got a letter in the mail.
Accepted: School of Engineering
Out of State: New York
GPA: 3.87/4.0 UW 4.07/4.0 W HS school only bumps AP and honors by 10%
ACT: 33 Comp, 35 Math, 34 Science, 35 STEM, 32 Reading, 30 English
Date of apply: Aug 28
Date of decision: Oct 16
Other Relevant Information: $15k Scholarship
Accepted or Denied: Accepted
In State/Out of State: Out of State
GPA: 4.4
ACT/SAT: 1460
Date of apply: 9/29/18
Date of decision: 10/15/18
Other Relevant Information: $15k Scholarship
Accepted
Out of State (Ohio)
GPA: 4.4 weighted, 3.98 unweighted (5 APs in weighting) earned all 5s and one 4 in AP courses
ACT/SAT: 1460 SAT 34 ACT
Date of apply: 11/6 (regular decision!) last minute decision.
Date of decision: 11/23
Intended Major: Chemical Engineering
Other Relevant Information: Solid ECs (varsity CC 4 years, 3 years varsity track, top band, summer lifeguard, pep band, NHS, Commended merit scholar)
White Male
Also accepted to Ohio State so far.
Accepted or Denied: Accepted
In State/Out of State: International (but graduating from a MN high school)
GPA: 4.0 U
ACT/SAT: 30 ACT
Class rank: 1/460
Date of apply: 10/31/18
Date of decision: 11/05/18
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
Other Relevant Information: $15k Global Excellence Scholarship; living in the USA under a visa; Mexican-Cuban; Female
Accepted!
In State/Out of State: International (Qatar)
GPA: A (around 3.7 I think)
ACT/SAT: 1410
TOEFL: 116
Date of apply: October 21
Date of decision: December 1
Intended Major: Computer Science
Other Relèvent Information: 16 y.o female from India
Accepted!
OOS
GPA: 3.96 UW/5.17W
ACT: 36
Date of apply: Sept. 28
Date of decision: Oct. 8
Other Relevant Information: 16 AP classes; three years marching band, two years section leader; gold medalist at State solo competition; musician on DCI World tour, summer 2017; NHS; NASA Aerospace Scholar; Academic Decathlon; Mayor’s Youth Council.
No honors invitation. Hmm.
When do we get to know about financial aid /Scholarships?
@TXMom2016 Did you look in the application tracker for honors, it is usually placed there first.
@ppxyz123 Sometimes early scholarships for things like National Merit come out right away but the U will say that financial aid awarding starts in Feb.
So if you’re admitted to honors will you likely receive some type of financial award?
@TXMom2016 For my daughter, the honors showed up later on the tracker. Almost didn’t see it. Was like a one or two sentence notice after the acceptance paragraph. Keep checking. I am hopeful for you guys!
@PrdMomto1 for my daughter, scholarship offers came by snail mail quite a bit after acceptance and honors notification. maybe a month later. Hang in there!
@UMNMom @coffeemomCO Looking at the profiles of students admitted to honors for the CoE, it looks like they only take students who were in the top 1% of their HS graduating class. My son is top 7% in an extremely competitive HS. Seems much more difficult to get into honors from engineering than any other college at the U. Also, the fact that his admissions offer is now two months old indicates (to me) that he won’t get an honors invitation. He did get the maximum national scholarship amount, though, so that’s good!
^TXMom2016 - that is correct about honors at CSE. Basically honors is top 10% of the college of entry. Since everyone admitted is already pretty much top 10% of their school, the honors invitation becomes something like top 1% of HS. (In reality probably not quite top 1% but certainly well under top 5%). They have to split some pretty fine hairs, is my guess, and many with stellar marks aren’t invited, simply because others also had loads of PSEO or other college courses and took AP since sophomore year. By the way, honors invites go out till end of March so there’s still a shot (at least I’m hoping since I believe my son is a viable candidate for CLA honors but he hasn’t been given an invite yet . . . ).
Here’s the Review and Selection Process for Honors (scroll down):
What can you do with the Honors program though? I was accepted to their honors thing, but judging from the information from their website, the honor program doesn’t sound that great and all.
@UMNMom Is there a separate place to check for honors? About when do people find out they are in Honors?
@sushiii - with honors you qualify for honors level courses (including gen. ed. courses) and you complete an honors thesis. You also have the opportunity to do research. It’s basically the equivalent of attending a top-level uni. with other super smart kids. What’s not great about that?
@Youngstudent18 - Honors notification will be on the Tracker first. Followed by a regular-mail letter.
Accepted!!
International Student: India
GPA: 91/100
Class Rank: 1/280
SAT: 1440
Date of Apply: 11/1
Date of Decision: 12/8
Intended Major: Computer Science
Sorry if this is off topic, but a question for those of you talking about honors, are honors exclusively stats based? Or are they holistic?