<p>Yes, you do need to write a thank-you letter. The scholarship office can give you more information. My daughter has received these 2,500 through Cockrell before.</p>
<p>I too applied to UT Austin,but I didn’t get my decision yet :(… Anyone got accepted to UT?? Did you get an email??</p>
<p>Does anybody know if you are notified about not making honors? Or if there are other separate scholarship monies from Cockrell still to be announced?</p>
<p>I think most scholarships are announced in the summer. Current students just finished applying a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know about honors, but my son received scholarship money rather late in the semester of last year.</p>
<p>lisiatc - Thanks for the info, however, my duaghter is an incoming freshman, so we would not have been eligible for any scholarships announced over the summer. I was hoping that there would still be some scholarships given to freshmen, even if not accepted into Honors. Anybody know??</p>
<p>EHP will send out an email later this week or early next week if you did not get accepted to honors. I was talking to them and they said all scholarship offers have gone out for the honors people and the rest just depends on funding (I think).</p>
<p>They already pushed out an e-mail to at least some people. I should know, as I received one haha. I was one of the last people to turn in an honors application… although that information is only useful if they review them in order.</p>
<p>Just got an email offering a “four-year scholarship”, but they didn’t specify what that was… Anyone else get this or know if that means full ride?</p>
<p>Still no EHP acceptance letter…still no rejection email. Was accepted into Electrical Engineering within 10 days of applying. Senior class rank 1st/605, 35 ACT, 2200 SAT, SAT II: Biology M 800, Math II 750, US History 740, National Merit Commended Scholar, AP National Scholar, PRESIDENT: NHS & Mu Alpha Theta Math; VP: Key Club; etceteras. Who knows…!!! BUT - READ THIS: I have a friend who did receive an email this evening from EHP stating in-part, “…they have reason to believe the letter inviting him to join the Engineering Honors Program was never printed or mailed by mistake. You should have received the letter in the mail last week inviting you to join the Engineering Honors Program, and offering you a four-year scholarship.” He is Biomedical Engineering. Still hope - my letter must be lost in space somewhere, as well!!</p>
<p>@Goldbug777, that’s the same email I got, I have no idea what the scholarship is though!!</p>
<p>@texanhopeful…no idea as to the value of the scholarship - can’t imagine it being a “full ride”. I would assume it is an annual, renewable scholarship.
Here’s a couple of links:
Future Honors Scholars website: <a href=“UT Cockrell School of Engineering”>UT Cockrell School of Engineering;
<p>Engineering Honors & Scholars Flyer: <a href=“UT Cockrell School of Engineering”>UT Cockrell School of Engineering;
<p>I also got a similar email with EHP offer but no scholarship value though.</p>
<p>My son got his letter on Monday of this week (3/18) accepting him into the Engineering Honors Program and granting a scholarship of $5,000.00 per year so long as he maintains at least a 3.5 GPA. He is going to do mechanical engineering. My question is - given the rigor of the curriculum and competition, is maintaining a 3.5 GPA even remotely possible? At many engineering schools the average GPA is around 3.0 or less, so I am wondering how many people get to keep these scholarships…</p>
<p>His stats - OOS (Indiana giant public high school) 33 ACT, 2200 SAT, top 6% of class, GPA 4.6 weighted, 3.6 unweighted, National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar, numerous extracurriculars in sports, music, etc. and worked for NJTL (teaching tennis to low income kids).</p>
<p>Really wondering if UT does a good job retaining their engineering students after the first and second year, or if they are more than happy to weed many out (like Purdue does). Also, does being in the honors program mean that you get to take any smaller sized classes?</p>
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Yes, it is possible. My sophomore son has had GPA more than 3.5 every semester except one he had 3.4. He studies a lot and never misses classes or labs. He also has fun playing IM and club sports and going to football games. It has a lot of to do with how well your son is prepared for college and how strong a math student he is. Is he taking any AP Calc now? Resources/tutoring services are available within engineering department and in the university to help students who need assistance.</p>
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My son is not in honors but he has friends who are. I don’t think they get to take smaller sized classes but I could be wrong on this. One thing I do know is honors students will have a faculty member for academic advising vs. other students will have staff as advisor. ME dept has staff members who are hired just to do academic advising. Their primary focus is to help students stay on track and finish degree on time.</p>
<p>Yes, it is possible to maintain a 3.5+. My daughter is a senior now in honors engineering. (I’m envious of that $5,000…she moved into engineering and honors her sophomore year and did not receive such a scholarship! Congratulations!)</p>
<p>Previous poster is correct re the math. Differential Equations seemed to be a “major changer” for many of my daughter’s classmates. But she said as long as you keep up with it every day, you can make an A or B. </p>
<p>The honors program doesn’t really offer smaller classes. The scholarships and earlier registration times seem to be the benefits of the program.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, sunnydayfun and schmegel for your help. Good to get the inside scoop (calms the nerves of a worrywart mom!) And yes, he is taking AP Calculus BC currently along with AP Physics. Will probably try to brush up on chemistry this summer. Getting harder for me to find reasons not to let him go to Austin…</p>
<p>If your son keeps up with his grades and gets involoved in various activities UT has to offer (works hard and plays hard :)), you are giving him the very best four years of education and college life.</p>
<p>Wow, $5,000/year for OOS is wonderful! My OOS son had very similar stats to your son and got only $1,000/year (he had to transfer back home due to health problems, but he liked UT).</p>
<p>Thank you for this thread, these posts have been very, very helpful! I’m OOS as well and received the $5000 for engineering. I’m also enrolled in the honors program, but not sure what to expect, besides what has been mentioned above by earlier posters. </p>
<p>I’m nervous about being in such a large school. :O</p>
<p>lexii232, it’s not as if you’re going to see all 50,000 students at once, except maybe on football game days, which are AMAZING! I tell students that it’s like living in a big city with many small neighborhoods. You find your “spot,” and that’s where you settle. I was in ECJ a good bit of the time. I had a small group of friends and got to know the profs well. And my FAVORITE class at UT was American History with George Forgie. There were more than 300 students in the class! He was just such a wonderful storyteller and teacher that the number of students didn’t matter. He was always available when I wanted to talk to him, too.</p>
<p>I also tell students that there are many, many opportunities available to you. For example, my son got to do some work in the biomedical engineering lab as a freshman! But people aren’t going to spoonfeed you - you have to look for chances and TALK TO PROFS! They can’t help you if you don’t approach them! If you got such a good scholarship, you must be very bright. You will do well!</p>