few questions...

<p>What is the honors college? how do you apply? requirements?</p>

<p>What is the lead program?</p>

<p>What is the excel program? how do you apply? requirements?</p>

<p>Is there a cap on how much you can earn from scholarships? I have 100% bright futures and will be living at home, so i really dont have to pay for anything. im probably going to get about $8-9000 per semester not including financial aid. will i be able to pocket the excess? (my brother goes to uf and he said that once you exceed 14000 per semester, you cant earn anymore unless the people giving you the scholarship write you a check to your house. i was wondering if it was the same with ucf.)</p>

<p>Do you lose some financial aid money if you choose to live at home?</p>

<p>I am a current student in Honors and LEAD. </p>

<p>The Burnett Honors College is a separate college within UCF that gives students the opportunity to take smaller classes and receive an Honors distinction when they graduate. It is different than other’s school’s Honors program in that it is more prestigious due to it being an official college. You can request an application on their website honors.ucf.edu. The requirements change each year, see the website. </p>

<p>LEAD Scholars is a program to develop freshmen and sophomores leadership skills through lead classes, community service, and different activities put on by the program. The app is on the website, but I’m not sure if it’s due soon. </p>

<p>I know EXCEL involves engineering and math, but I don’t know much else since I’m not involved in it. </p>

<p>As for financial aid, I’m not positive about your situation, but if you look up the info on the website as to what the estimated cost of attendance is, that is probably the cap on what you can earn. They will disburse anything above what your tuition costs direct deposit.</p>

<p>LEAD Scholars is a two-year program that gives you (or your kid) a lot of really valuable opportunities. If you enjoy getting involved, making friends, doing things that will make a huge impact on the community (e.g. service), or getting training to become a better leader, applying to LEAD Scholars is a wonderful decision.</p>

<p>LEAD Scholars do enjoy a lot of benefits. There is a room in the Student Union where LEAD Scholars can hang out on campus and get free printing and computer access, and that’s a wonderful place to spend time between classes. There are events put on by LEAD Scholars about once a week… from caramel apple dipping to a winter formal, the events are common and a lot of fun. Freshmen also get to live in on-campus housing with other LEAD Scholars (if they so choose)… which means to most of them that the friends they live with are the same people they go to events with, see in the LEAD Lounge, attend their LEAD class with, etc… just a wonderful to meet new people.</p>

<p>There’s absolutely no problem with doing both Honors and LEAD. From my own personal experience with both programs, I feel like I’ve gotten something from each, but nothing Honors has provided comes close to the benefits I’ve gotten from LEAD.</p>

<p>LEAD Scholars has two parts: the university-sponsored program and the LEAD Students Association (LSA). LSA puts on various events throughout the semester. These include competing in Homecoming (LEAD Scholars beat out over a dozen fraternity-sorority teams and the Honors College to place first overall in Homecoming this year–which is a pretty big deal), multiple dances–a winter formal, a Halloween dance, etc.–and get-togethers (like game nights, ice cream socials, pizza parties), scrapbooking, sporting events, competing on intramural teams together, tailgates where you can get free food prior to every home football game instead of having to pay through the roof at the stadium (have you guessed yet that there’s a lot of free food?), tons of community service events (visiting the homeless, the elderly, children, etc. and doing things for them… we do that about three or four times a week), and tons of other fun things. Students can attend these events (of course they’re all optional–no one has time to do them all! There’s a minimum of two events required per semester for freshmen, which is practically nothing. I personally went to about 25 all through last semester) and also help plan them on various committees within LSA. At the end of freshmen year, students can apply for the LSA positions and take on a position of leadership.</p>

<p>The program itself offers at least as many benefits. There’s the REEL Retreat that the program puts on before the semester even starts, where students get to know each other and have friends before the first day of fall classes. There’s special events that LEAD puts on–like for example, about 80 LEAD Scholars go to go to EPCOT (in Disney World) for free last year. There’s the Leadership Excellence Board, with whom students can help to market the program to high schools and help select the next class of students. You can live in LEAD Housing with other LEAD Scholars… some of the best friends I’ve ever had I met through living in the same building as them freshman year with LEAD, and I saw them not just at home but in my LEAD class, at LSA events, etc. There’s just tons of stuff to do within the program.</p>

<p>I hope I’ve given you enough examples to see that LEAD Scholars lets you find your niche and learn to excel in it until you become a better leader in that area, which in turn makes you become a better leader in all areas of your life. I really highly recommend the program.</p>

<p>thank you guys, im going to apply to both honors and lead.</p>

<p>Good decision, tons of students do both.</p>