<p>Have any accepted students received letters about being accepted into Honors or Scholars? I read on a thread that students last year received the honors letters around 5 days after the acceptance letters last year. Five days have passed since acceptance. Anyone?</p>
<p>D has not received any info on scholarships yet, but would expect to.</p>
<p>My DS yesterday got a formal letter and brochure saying :</p>
<p>“congratulations on your admission to The Ohio State University! I am delighted to also invite you to join the University Honors Program at Ohio State. Honors Program affiliation offers tremendous intellectual co-curricular, residential, and career development benefits, which are outlined in the enclosed brochure…” Letter was signed by Linda Harlow, Associate Provost and Director, University Honors & Scholars Center.</p>
<p>DS applied to OSU on Oct. 1, was accepted around Dec. 5th and got the honors invite letter on Dec. 23-just to give everyone an idea as to how long it takes. Letter does say also “Most Honors students receive some level of merit scholarship support from the University. We encourage you to visit meritawards.osu.edu for details about Ohio State’s merit awards.”</p>
<p>DS has until May 1 to accept this Honors Program invitation.</p>
<p>The Honors Program at Ohio state looks great, very interesting select travel abroad opportunities, priority registration, great housing, etc.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone and I hope this info helps! itsv</p>
<p>itsv: are you willing to give ballpark info re your son’s stats and does his school rank students and compute GPA? My son, an OOS applicant, received the Scholars, but not the Honors, packet last week after being invited to apply and being accepted. Based on his SAT/ACT and transcript and what OSU puts out on the Honors program, we had anticipated Honors as an option. His school does not rank or calculate GPA. Thanks.</p>
<p>Royal73,</p>
<p>The Honors Program brochure said the program is for National Merit Finalists, National Achievement Finalists and the National Hispanic Scholars (which is my OOS DS). My DS was hosted back in Oct for a Honors Program visit so he was anticipating this invitation. Congratulations to your DS for the Scholars program. The Scholars Program looks like a great program.</p>
<p>I just got my acceptance into Honors today and I’m OOS (texas)</p>
<p>itsv – the web site puts it in terms of SAT/ACT minimum scores and class rank, which is what I was looking at. DS is well above the cut-off test scores, but his small, independent school does not rank. Scholars program is great, too, of course, but to give him something closer to what he’s looking for in terms of small class size, e.g., and not getting closed out of courses (the reason he’s not applying to public schools in home state), the Honors program seems the only way to go. Other schools he’s applying to are all Northeast LACs at least 10x smaller than OSU, so if OSU Honors not an option because his school doesn’t rank, he’ll have to try to get what he wants at one of the other schools, just a lot more $ to get it!</p>
<p>Anyone know if class rank is a prerequisite if student is not NMF or other designated award winner?</p>
<p>They really seem to focus very much on the specific requirements stated - test scores and class rank, with only some rare consideration for those who are on the borderline to fall into the “honors” category. They have a lot of very bright students and only so many slots for Honors, so they can afford to be particular. My son had the scores but not the 10% rank because of how his school did not weight but also included certain other programs with no academics, etc., things he had no control over.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, the Scholars program is extremely worthy, offers tons of opportunities basically the same as Honors, including some combined programs and tons of travel, and is very popular. Many students who are offered Honors are actually disappointed that they weren’t offered Scholars instead. One can start in Scholars and the next year apply for Honors, but Honors can’t move to Scholars at any time. Really, the main advantage of Honors is the scheduling before anyone else; however, Scholars get to schedule before the other students in their “class” - meaning, for example, you get to schedule before all other freshmen that year, or before all other sophs once you reach that status, etc. It makes a big difference. Some classes students must take as Scholars only, although a number of the kids test out of those.</p>
<p>You also have to apply for Scholars programs once invited, it’s competitive and not automatic.</p>
<p>My son really enjoys his Scholars program. He is surrounded by kids who have similar interests, have fun and are social but also take their studies seriously. Honors is great thing, of course, and if it’s extremely important to be in small classes for someone then of course that would influence a college decision. </p>
<p>My son had no interest in the Honors program, a personal thing for him, but some kids would thrive on it, naturally. However, I wouldn’t completely discount the Scholars program if you aren’t invited to Honors but in the end OSU still seems the best fit for you.</p>
<p>I know that the deadline for Scholars is Feb. 2. Is it better to get in application now? do they have rolling admissions to the program or do they announce all scholars later in the year?</p>
<p>Royal73:</p>
<p>My Ds’s school does not rank either (small all-boys catholic school) but Ds had the sat score and I assume his being a National Hispanic Scholar then weighed in to his selection of Honors College. Good luck with your son. My DS seriously looked at the scholars program since they have one in his intended major. Either way i was like you, hoping for Honors or Scholars for my DS in order to make a larger college like Ohio State a smaller school. Good luck with the other LACs.</p>
<p>I got my admittance December 2 and the invite to the Honors program on December 12. I think it’s more like one and a half to two weeks to get the honors/scholars letters.
It’s probably better to get the application in as soon as possible. Also, the website says that the deadline is February 1.</p>
<p>It seems to take at least a couple of weeks to get an invite to apply for honors/scholars. </p>
<p>Receiving an invitation does not automatically mean admission to the program, although I’ve never heard of an honors invite being "rejected’. Scholars is a little different, you have to pick the programs you’re interested in and then write your essay based on your choices, so it’s more of a competitive process as to which program you can get in. Admittance isn’t really on a rolling basis, was our understanding - my son sent his the day before it was due and got into his program.</p>
<p>If they have Honors or Scholars Days coming up for prospective students, I would highly encourage attending if possible. My son did not decide to apply for Scholars until after he attended the presentation day, which is why he waited to send in his app. It answered a lot of his questions and the student reps were very honest about the pros/cons, also it helped to meet the directors of the programs so he could get a feel for their personalities. Maybe they aren’t doing that this year, though?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the honors invite means you’re admitted to the program should you decide to attend the school since there isn’t any other application after the invitation. Unless OSU revokes your admission.</p>
<p>They had Honors and Scholars days at the beginning of the year (October and November). I’m not sure if they have any now though. I agree with friedpasta. Those Honors/Scholars days are really nice and they really do a lot to make you feel welcome.</p>
<p>I was accepted Dec. 12th and received Honors acceptance Dec. 22nd</p>
<p>They will have days for Honors/Scholars in the next few months. We went in mid to late Feb. for our first daughter. The initial presentation was good. She was undecided as a major at that time. They didn’t do a good job for us when they broke into interest groups. Last year we went to an informational meeting at OSU for D#2 and it was impressive. We will give it a try again to see if it is the right place for #2.</p>
<p>I was accepted around December 10 and received my letter about honors today. I was accepted and I am not top 10%.</p>
<p>In mid-December my son had received the letter inviting him to apply for the Scholars program and then around Christmas, he was notified he’d been awarded the Maximus and National Buckeye Scholarships. Because of the Maximus award and the fact that his stats met the standards for the Honors program (except that his school publishes no class rank), I called Honors & Scholars to try to get more information about the programs and his status. Turns out, they had sent him the wrong letter and they’re now sending out the Honors letter. Both programs obviously are excellent, but for a kid coming from a school of fewer than 400 students in which a class with 15 students is considered unusually large and course selection is rarely an issue, the features of the Honors program make it a better situation for him, I think, if he decides to make the huge leap to OSU. I think it’s terrific that both these programs exist, a perfect way to attract strong, engaged students looking for the more personal experience of a small LAC in a big (really big!) school setting, and at a much lower cost!</p>