<p>Im kind of confused about honors first year seminars. Are they only open to honors students, or can any student take them?</p>
<p>Pretty sure they are just for honors students, like other honors classes…</p>
<p>Non honors students can take honors courses. Honors students just get priority registration for them and if a non honors student wants take an honors course they have to go to the honors office and receive permission there. I’m not positive it’s the exact same for fys classes but I would imagine it would be</p>
<p>It is the same deal. Honors students get first shot at taking Honors Classes, but after a certain date, anyone can register for honors classes at graham memorial. And by anyone, I mean anyone who meets the requirements. I think a 3.0 GPA and, if necessary, demonstrated mastery of previous material. That is someone who failed chem 101 probably won’t get into an honors chemistry class.</p>
<p>sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do you become a honors student?</p>
<p>I know that non-honors students can take honors classes, but you do have to go through some red tape (this was discussed in another thread). I’m under the impression you have to be invited to the honors program to be an honors student - you can also graduate with honors if you write an honors thesis.</p>
<p>You are invited when first admitted, but you can also apply to be in the honors program second semester of your first year or first semester of your sophomore year.</p>
<p>Thanks packerfan, I hadn’t even thought of that… I’ve only met people who were invited/wrote a thesis!</p>
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<p>Writing a thesis, and subsequently graduating with honors, is not predicated on acceptance into or participation in the college-wide honors program.</p>
<p>Oh, I know that writing a thesis to graduate with honors is different than being in the honors program and writing a thesis… I’ve just only known people who were part of the honors program when they started college and non-honors people who chose to write an honors thesis senior year.</p>
<p>How do you get invited?</p>
<p>UNC invites you after you apply… That is the extent of my knowledge, ha ha!</p>
<p>Like I said before, UNC invites you or you apply. What the criteria are to merit an invitation is, I can’t really tell you. I think around 200 of the approximately 4000 members of the incoming freshman class are invited into the program if I remember correctly. Might be more now, but not much more. I think it is fairly competitive to get invited, but I don’t know for sure. I wasn’t invited when I was admitted, and I had a 2360 SAT, 34 ACT, National Merit Scholar, all that good stuff. To be fair, when I asked about it later, the people in the Honors Office weren’t quite sure why I wasn’t accepted. :-P</p>
<p>I didn’t let that really affect my decision, and couldn’t be happier at UNC. I actually took multiple honors classes my first year, before actually being admitted into the Honors Program second semester.</p>
<p>I think the site says something about picking those that they think will be most ready to take full advantage of, and add the most to the honors program. I have the suspicion that it’s sometimes used to attract students who might otherwise go elsewhere.</p>
<p>I emailed someone in the honors program about this yesterday. They said if you want to take an honors first year seminar, you don’t have to get permission from them or anything (like you do for others honors classes), you just have to sign up for it if there’s any spaces left once drop add starts.</p>
<p>What are they looking at if you apply for honors? Is it your previous SAT/ACT and HS gpa or do they take into account your freshman grades?</p>
<p>can you only apply as a second semester freshman or can you apply at any point during your time at Carolina?</p>
<p>The timing is really specific - someone posted that it is second semester freshman year/first semester sophomore year, and I’m pretty sure that’s right. After that, you’re out of luck.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they look at your grades at UNC more, along with a recommendation from a professor. At that point, your high school accomplishments are going to matter less.</p>