<p>I hate to disappoint you lot, but 3 kids at my HS have gotten letters for Reilly already, and 2.5 of us are white.</p>
<p>URM is not a consideration in the HP or Reilly as far as I know.</p>
<p>loneranger, I am amazed! Wow -- three Reilly Scholars from your high school! There were only two students accepted EA from our entire county! -- and we had many National Merit Scholars, National AP Scholars and some near perfect SAT's! I am really impressed!
What state or region? Maybe students are being notified/invited by region.</p>
<p>Another white Reilly scholar here.
So, ok, what is the Glynn Honors program? What are the advantages?</p>
<p>what state or region, homers, if you don't mind me asking?
BTW, congratulations!</p>
<p>Dallas, TX. We're the largest Catholic high school in the state, and we're all boys.</p>
<p>I think our counselor said that in the last 2 years something like 22 kids from our school have gone to ND.</p>
<p>Well, I did say the URM thing was only an assumption. Oh, well. I noted some with the letters were asian or hispanic and made the assumption, and assumed both these groups would be considered URMs on the ND campus. Loneranger, you would be considered an URM, not 1/2 an URM, at least at the college I work at. You would also be eligibe for the National Hispanic Recognition Program if I understand your background correctly and scored appropriately on the PSAT.</p>
<p>Homers, you mention that you are not an URM & received the letter. Do you care to share your stats/state located in?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Well, ND's form actually doesn't allow you to specify anything other than "Hispanic/Latino," "White," and I believe "Multiracial." I don't consider myself to be multiracial--racially I'm white. Ethnically, however, I'm Latino.</p>
<p>Yes, I did get the NHRP. I believe that you only have to be 1/4 Hispanic to qualify for the NHRP.</p>
<p>Well, congratulations on your achievements! Whether ND sees certain people as URMs or not I don't know, but it's without a doubt that you all deserve the recognition that you are getting. Good luck to all. Hopefully, more letters are forthcoming. Time will tell.</p>
<p>Hi! Sorry for bumping this post up after awhile, but I was lurking around and thought I would add my two cents (also, this is my first post, so please cut me some slack if I screw anything up). I just graduated from ND last May and was a member of the honors program, so while some of what I have to say IS a bit dated hopefully I can clarify any confusion (if there still is any!). </p>
<p>I applied and got accepted EA in December, and I think I got my HP letter in mid-late January. I actually had absolutely no idea what the Honors Program was when I got the letter, but I was able to go to visit for a weekend in February where I was able to speak with one of the directors at a reception. What I was told - and I'm not sure if it is in the letter or not - was that the 'essay' (or whatever application they now have, it may be different but for us it was just a short essay on why we'd be a good fit) does not make or break your application. As long as you write something coherent, you're in. The program has recently grown - they only picked 60 students for my class, and I think it's up to around 100 now - but I would bet they normally ask ~120 max (a total guess). I think they expect some people to decline so that they ultimately end up with 100. </p>
<p>I was NOT invited to Reilly Weekend, so if you don't get invited I wouldn't freak out. Of the two people from my HS accepted to ND my year, both of us were invited to join Honors, but only one was invited to Reilly. We both had 4.0s, lots of APs, lots of extracurriculars. The only difference, I could tell, had to be test scores (I got a 35 ACT), so from my point of view, it's kind of arbitrary once they get down to the smartest students. Or maybe my letter was lost in the mail or they've changed their selection process. Who knows. I basically say that to let you know that not everyone from Honors goes to Reilly. I know kids in Honors that did go, I know kids that didn't, I know kids that went to Reilly and weren't asked to Honors. </p>
<p>Figuring out how people get asked to honors becomes even more confusing. Alot of people believe that there's a magical test score that determines whether or not you get invited. This is false. What the HP looks for, more than anything, is an ambidextrous student. The intention of the program is to allow the students to explore BOTH Science and Arts & Letters as deeply as possible instead of just focusing on one side of it. In turn, they want somebody who has shown an interest in both sides. Now, an amazing combo of scores/GPA/APs/extracurriculars/whatever is probably going to get you in, but I would bet that if they are trying to decide between two students, they are going to choose the one who has been more well-rounded in their interests. </p>
<p>Sorry for the novel, but hopefully this sheds some light on the whole Reilly/HP process (at least as I saw it from my perspective). If you end up getting asked to Honors, I would definitely encourage taking advantage of it. I think that while it has its pros and cons (which I could discuss, but it would take a whole other post), and the final thesis was one of the more intense things I've done, ever, it was an incredibly rewarding experience that made my time at ND more unique. It is, admittedly, not for everyone, and I know some kids who dropped out, but that was very, very rare. They choose who they want very wisely.</p>
<p>Good luck with everything, and again, apologies for the length!</p>
<p>I could agree with part of what you're saying because both myself and another kid from my school got admitted EA. He got invited to Reilly and I did not, even though he has lower test scores, gpa, rank and a less competitive schedule. He is legacy but I don't know if that factors in. Point is there's not guarantee or formula (I had a perfect ACT but as I have found that doesn't guarantee anything). So the process seems kinda cloudy...not that the kid isn't smart or anything; he's extremely capable.</p>
<p>OK - I have been gone for a while and now that the letters are going out I would like to bump this up.
Could you please tell me about some of the negatives of the Glynn program? -
the positives?
Thanks</p>
<p>I just received an invitation to apply to Honors. All they ask for is a one-page "essay" (they actually put the phrase in quotation marks) about how the program would benefit your ND experience.</p>
<p>I think that being in Honors would be a big positive to impacting my decision. I'm currently torn between ND and UT's Plan II Honors. Plan II was arguably the first honors college and is pretty much the model for honors colleges nationally from what I've read.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain what might make ND's Honors different from other programs? Or is it just Honors-only sections of the regular classes.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what percentage of the pool gets this letter inviting people to apply to the Glynn Honors Program?
Or is it just everone?</p>
<p>Not everyone gets invited to apply, they take a certain cut of the top academic applicants and invite them to write that "essay."</p>
<p>Advantages: free food, lounge to crash in and sleep instead of going all the way back to your dorm, no CSEM, Intro Philo and Theo with 15 or 16 students and the top rated professors, people think you are smarter even if you aren't, some preferential treatment when applying for undergrad research grants, events (ie subsidized trips and luncheons and such)</p>
<p>Disadvantages: all that AP credit (and the testing fees) for math, science and english is now useless as HP will make you go through a whole year of math, science and composition, those small classes can adversely affect your GPA because professors typically grade harder than the grad students who grade for lecture halls, if you don't like your seminar professor then you're in a pickle (although everyone whom I know loves their seminar prof, this prof can also write you good personal recs in your first semester, a nice leg up on the competition)</p>
<p>Push: Senior thesis, writing theses sucks, however this usually means you get to to do research/hang out in taverns on the German-Italian border on the school's check (yes this was actually a student research project this year), and if you plan on applying to graduate school or even professional school it is probably a nice touch to have a thesis of originial research on your resume</p>
<p>I just received an invitation to apply to the Glynn Honors Program.Is there a further filtering process? Does the invite pretty much insure that I'm in or is the essay really that important?</p>
<p>I didn't get invited :(</p>
<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I realize that this is an old thread and that many of you have probably forgotten all about college confidential but I thought I’d give it a try. I was recently accepted to ND early action but would love to get invited to their honors program. I have a 2280 on my SAT (750M 760CR 770W) and my school does not rank. I also have an 800 on the Math II and 720 on the literature subject test. Do you think I have good chances or is 1510 a little low?</p>
<p>^^ i also want some information </p>
<p>I was accepted to ND with a 2310 and a 35. I’m #2 in my class of 544.
People in previous years have said something about being an ND scholar but my letter didn’t mention anything about that.
I would like to know how the honors program works or how you qualify for it and if I have a decent chance of qualifying.</p>
<p>The Glynn Family Honors Program is for students entering the College of Science or the College of Arts and Letters. EA students I think have already been invited. I am not sure about RD students. General info about the program is available thru nd.edu. Search Glynn family Honors and the links should come up. The College of Engieering does not start their honors program until sophomore year, so students are not invited until sometime during the freshman year. Not sure about other majors but info should be available thru the website. Contacts for more info should be listed there. Good Luck!</p>