<p>I received the highest Dean's scholarship after being admitted, but I don't see anything about the honors program. Is it written IN the decision letter? I don't see anything... Weird that someone can get the highest scholarship but not get admitted into the honors program.</p>
<p>Yes, it is written IN the decision letter.</p>
<p>This happens on occasion. First, contact the honors department just in case they can do something now.</p>
<p>Second, don’t worry about it too much. The worst thing that would happen is you don’t get honors housing freshman year. This happened to a friend of mine last year, and she just applied after her first semester, got in, and now it’s not an issue at all.</p>
<p>How do you know that you got the highest Dean’s scholarship? From what I can tell, the highest one seems to be $17,000 per year, which is what I got. No one in this forum posted a higher scholarship. The website says that they go up to $16,000 per year, but I guess they raised it this year.</p>
<p>So how much did you get?</p>
<p>I know this thread is a little old, but the same thing happened to me for RD 2012. I was wondering what happened to this? Did you receive an invitation to the honors program later on?</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, it appears that a bunch of us got 18-20k Dean’s with no honors. It sucks but it’s not a mistake. I’m pretty disappointed myself.</p>
<p>I got the same thing, but at American University. I’m scratching my head a bit as well.</p>
<p>Honors is a smaller percentage than scholarships. Also scholarships go by the university, whereas honors goes by college- so tougher colleges have higher standards for honors (like engineering).</p>
<p>And don’t be confused and think that an 18k scholarship now means you’d be better ranked than the person above. When I was admitted, highest Dean’s was only 16,000. The price of tuition has gone up.</p>
<p>Nobody is going to care five years from now whether you got honors or not, but you (or your parents) WILL care about scholarships, because your debt will be much lower when you finish your degree! I agree with neuchimie that the only real benefit is better housing.</p>
<p>Like neuchimie said, the honors goes by college and I think even by major (I’m not sure). So I wouldn’t compare yourself to someone from another college who got into honors and you didn’t. I’m not in honors, but I have a lot of friends who are, and there aren’t that many differences besides better housing your freshman year and the fact that you can say you were in the honors program. After your freshman year housing is pretty much the same. </p>
<p>If you really want to be in honors though, you can always apply your freshman year. Two of my friends are doing it, I was going to but it’s too much hassle. You would need a 3.8? gpa and a letter of rec. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about it though! You’ll still be getting an awesome education! :)</p>