<p>Did anyone get invited to the Honors College along with the online letter of acceptance?</p>
<p>It’s with the letter they send out in the mail.</p>
<p>…And today, they sent out an email inviting us if we want to apply to the honors program by March 1st.</p>
<p>It’s my understanding that SATs of at least 2070 plus GPAs of at least 4.0 (UF) get invited to apply, and it is possible to petition for those who are not invited. At least this is how it has been. I was also invited and wondered what percentage are usually actually admitted?</p>
<p>There are 800 slots and about 1200-1300 applicants.</p>
<p>Honors decisions are made on basis of GPA/SAT/ECs? Or are they based just on the essay?</p>
<p>…and when will we know by if we got in or not?</p>
<p>From what I understand, the chief factor is ACT/SAT and the essays and your rigor. Essentially, if you’re well-qualified in all of these areas, you shouldn’t have difficulty. Also, remember that UF is still calculating yield and such, so those 800 slots extend to probably about 1-1.2k acceptances because of losses to other schools… As far as I know, I have not heard of anybody who was invited and applied for honors who was rejected.</p>
<p>do you need to enroll at UF before applying to honors or can you apply without enrolling and decide whether you want to go there after finding out if you got into honors?</p>
<p>also, did everyone eligible get an email for honors? I’m eligible but I never got an email. I’m OOS, does that play a role in why I wasn’t considered eligible?</p>
<p>not get too worked up about the honors program guys, its not really very special.</p>
<p>^^^ Living at Hume would be nice… As would taking an honors course with smaller class</p>
<p>I got into Honors through Lateral admission, and was offered to transfer dorms to Hume last fall, and I declined both. So before you guys all get so worked up and think you HAVE to get into Honors, these are the reasons why I decided against it.</p>
<p>1) Hume costs almost a thousand dollars more per semester than almost any other dorm, which is just ridiculus for what you are getting. so unless you have a lot of financial aid, or rich parents, it’s not a good option
2) it is way out of the way, hume west is the farthest you can get from classes, unless you go to lakeside
3)I haven’t actually lived in Hume, but from what most of my friends tell me, you are basically paying all that extra money to clean your own bathroom</p>
<p>and, now on to those"amazing" small honors classes:</p>
<p>1)they are significantely harder than the normal classes, which i’m sure is not a big deal for some of the crazier ones, but I wouldn’t want to take my chances with making chemistry or calculus harder than it already is. I was in the honors Russian Lang course during drop add, and instead of teaching us actual speaking skills, the prof. emphasized grammar and translation. The reason you study a language is to be able to speak it! what is the point of being able to read it, if you can’t understand what anyone is saying. And even besides that, the regular class is an easy a, and I am learning way more than the people i know who stayed in the honors class. For the amount of work I do, I would probably be barely making a c in the honors course. Even the “easy” honors classes are made to be difficult. there was one about like math and origami or something like that in the fall semester, and the person I know who was in it, was basically always doing projects for it. she had to make some kind giant square thing at the end, and the only way she could finish it was if the entire hall helped her make the little paper squares it was made out of, and boy were there a lot of them.</p>
<p>2)also, look at the actual listing of courses. remember, you are going to have to take 4 honors courses, do any of the ones they are offering now seem like something you want to take?</p>
<p>3) Since you guys have such High HPA’s, you probably have almost all of your gen eds, but the honors courses are gen eds, so besides fulfilling the honors requirement, you wouldn’t even have had to take them. I am done with gen eds after this semster, so there would have been basically no reason for me to take almost any of these classes next year, yet I would have still had to fit 4 into my schedule in this semester and next year.</p>
<p>4)those classes can still be taken by non-honors students, the honors students just have an earlier registration date for JUST those classes. I emphasize that because you have a normal registration date for the rest of you classes</p>
<p>for me, all of this was not worth the one line on your resume that says, “member of UF Honors Program” or any of the other benefits that come with being in Honors</p>
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<p>OMG, there’s an origami class…can we seriously take that? It sounds so fun!!!, but at the same time it probably looks bad on your transcript. :(</p>
<p>^ But, yea, you make some good points. I am contemplating whether or not to do honors, and at the moment, I think I’m leaning more towards traditional UF. Besides, I wouldn’t even want to live in Hume…probably the engineering one.</p>
<p>But what I want to know is after completing honors, does it look favorably to employers…or especially to graduate schools?</p>
<p>^ and I appreciate your post, but there’s always two sides to an opinion, and I just want to know the other side of the option…not saying your post wasn’t valuable 
I mean, honors is in existence for a reason…and if it just to get a good dorm, sign up for classes early, and could potentially get in the way for me to explore my own opportunities/explorations (like as you said - learning Russian), then, no, it does not sound like a viable option. But if it has other great benefits (except travel abroad…in which I’m not really interested at this particular time) , then I might do it…hmmm</p>
<p>In my opinion, I don’t think being in Honors does much to help when looking for jobs. As I said, it is just 1 line on your resume. A resume from college is different from a resume from High school. If I can quote the crc rep who helped me apply for internships, “employers are looking more for explanations of what you did, rather than just listing it.” there’s not really much you can say about Honors other than that you were a member. & not being in Honors definitely didn’t hurt me, I got an internship for over the summer, and It was with a pretty popular company, so I must have been going against at least some Honors kids. As far as graduate school goes, I have absolutely no idea, that is not a career track that I am planning on taking so I have no idea how one gets into graduate schools or what they look for.</p>
<p>Graduating “with Honors” is different than being in the Honors program. The program is only two years anyways.</p>
<p>@ZapadniyRus</p>
<p>hume is nice, but being in the honors program is hardly a prerequisite for taking honors classes. most non-gen ed honors classes are accessible by getting permission from the the professor. with that said, most people who want into honors classes (starcraft aside) can probably get in via lateral admissions.</p>