<p>From the UHC website:</p>
<p>"Freshmen with SAT combined math and critical reading scores of 1400 or above (or a 32 composite ACT score) and who are in the top 5 percent of their high school class are eligible to enroll in University Honors College (UHC) courses"</p>
<p>If these requirements are met, does that mean you will automatically be placed in the honors program when applying? Does everyone who meet the reqs get in?</p>
<p>I believe that you will automatically be invited to participate, though you don’t need to. Also, considering that I’ve read that they also invite freshman that don’t meet all the reqs (for example, sat score of 1600 but class rank of 7%), I’m pretty sure that everyone who meets the stated reqs are eligible.</p>
<p>Pitt has an honors college, but not an honors program. Different honors classes are offered each semester and eligible students can enroll. Other students can request permssion to enroll as well. The big difference from what I can tell is that the college offers a bachelor’s degree in philosophy that requires undergraduate research.</p>
<p>So what’s the actual benefit of being in the honors college?</p>
<p>Other than being eligible to take specific honors courses, that anyone can request to be in as well, what makes being in the honors college any different than being just a regular student?</p>
<p>You can get honors housing. That’s about it, I think.</p>
<p>I think one of the benefits may be some scholarship consideration that is only available to honor college participants. Not sure, but I believe I read something like that.</p>
<p>Well, if you’re in honors you’re more likely to be invited to apply for the Chancellor’s scholarship, but it isn’t directly due to being in the honors college.</p>
<p>Some advising is available through the honors college, but you are not “in” the honors college in the sense of many other universities. The dean of the honors college says that the honors college classes separate the curious from the simply smart, which makes great sense if you are one of the curious ones.</p>