When are admissions to the honors program sent out? I’ve read so many different things from it being on your original acceptance to a couple weeks afer acceptance to March 31. My son is fairly competitive, but not a shoo in. He was accepted to CLA already.
It would help with choosing a dorm to know when to stop checking for another update in the tracker 
Thanks, guys!
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Honors rolls out just like admissions, it can take a short amount of time or a long amount of time. It just varies for each applicant
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I have no knowledge on the subject but kind of agree that it depends. We applied to UM-TC just on Sunday. We haven’t obviously gotten an acceptance but with DS20 scores she should get in. We are OOS and just my opinion I would think she could get an Honors College offer considering there is similar schools closer. Someone living lets say 20 minutes away might have to wait longer. Her counselor though she would get in to the Honors College and Middlebrook houses Honors students. The schools site does give a range of SAT scores of what kids got into the Honors for 2019. Like OP’s son she is applying CLA.
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My son just received his acceptance to UMTC honors program today (10/28). He was accepted to CSE a few weeks ago (applied 9/21/19). Notification came via email saying to check the application tracker for an update. Hope that helps!
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@Vermknid Do you mind sharing what your son’s stats were?
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Sure - here they are.
Objective:
[ list]
[ *] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): not taken
[ *] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 34, 7, 33, 30, 35, 36
[ *] SAT II (Type, Score): not taken
[ *] Weighted GPA (out of ??): 4.06 (small school, only 4 AP classes offered)
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/82
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: 2 AP, 1 Honors (again, not many offered)
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): No awards available at our school
Subjective:
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity football (team captain junior and senior years, all conference, all county), varsity basketball, varsity track. NHS, Robotics, Student Ambassador
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Works March - August at local plant store
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: ~ 40-50 hours per year, church, school and community
[ *] Summer Activities: work, sports camps
[ *] Essays: 7/10
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: Didn’t see but should be good. One is calculus teacher and also the varsity football coach - so knows him well, the other is his STEM teacher and Robotics mentor.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Should be good - didn’t see.
Other
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): OOS but with reciprocity (we live in Wisconsin)
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
It seems like the Honors roll out gradually. He applied very early so I suspect that’s why we already have notification. UMTC was one of the first to get back to him with acceptance too while UW-Madison has yet to say anything.
Best of luck!!
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Congrats! And thanks for sharing!
Did your son apply for Early Action, or Rolling Admission? Very confused with their admission/decision time.
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He applied Early Action, and I believe that deadline is this Friday (11/1). Again, I’m sure we heard because he applied in September. Since the EA deadline is so close now, they are probably backlogged with applications so College acceptance and Honors acceptance will probably take longer. 
Good Luck!
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Thanks for quick reply!
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In our case my daughter got accepted to CLA on the 10th and to the Honors College on 17th. 3 days ago she got a welcoming letter from the Honors College.
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I see people are are already receiving Honors college invitation. Admitted to CSE two weeks ago. However did not receive any Honors invitation yet. Should I assume that I did not make the cut?
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10. Not necessarily CSE I believe is the hardest to get into the Honors College. Thus a 32 Act for example may get you into from CLA but not CSE.
Thanks Nicki20. I am an OOS candidate with ACT 35 and class rank 2/600. Lot of AP and IB classes. I checked the crteria mentioned on the website and seem to fit. However no invitation yet. So that is why I was wondering.
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I wonder if being OOS affects it. My older son didn’t get accepted into honors until spring and he had amazing stats. My current CSE kid was accepted very quickly, but no word on honors for him either. He has 35/1570, perfect GPA, great extracurriculars, 12APs (plus Linear Alg and Calc 3 already completed)… would have guessed he’d be a good candidate. Older ds was definitely put off by the length of time it took, because being in honors was important to him. That said, we did visit the honors college specifically after he was accepted into it, and were very impressed.
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@Nicki20 and @mamadtb : What did your kids list as their majors? My son chose linguistics and spanish but hasn’t heard anything and I’m trying to figure out if any linguistics applicants are getting responses yet.
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@ie2020 My son is a history major, but hasn’t heard anything from honors.
34 ACT
3.75 GPA
8 (possibly 9?) AP exams-scored 5 on all exams
National AP Scholar
Badger Boys State
Mock Trial 4 years
Track 4 years
Cross Country 4 years
All the fun stuff that most of the other kids have too.
The only thing I can see holding him back is his GPA. Other than that he’s pretty solid, especially for CLA. Just haven’t heard anything. It’s not keeping him from choosing his dorm. And he sees pros for honors and pros for not being in honors and he’s way more level headed about this whole college shindig than we are 
College and scholarship apps are teaching our whole family a little bit about patience! haha
I’m just glad I’m not on the decision committee. There’s a whole lot of very qualified kids for so few spots. Either way, we are all really excited he’s gotten the opportunity to study undergrad at UMN and hopefully law school in a couple years too!
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My son applied to CSE on 10/3. Accepted sometime mid month in October and accepted to Honors on 10/28.
He has a 4.0 and 1540SAT, so they had sent us some code to waive the application fee, so he did it. That and he didn’t have to write an essay.
We are OOS (IIlinois)
I would say they are middle of the pack right now. Need to see if any merit aid comes through also.
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My daughters major is psychology. There seemed to be some kind of push to get kids from Illinois. We had the application fee waived when she applied. Mentioned something about writing a 100 word essay. Easiest app she had to do.
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My son just found out he was accepted into honors. 35 ACT, 4.46 GPA, OOS, College of Biological Sciences.
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We also got our merit aid. He got the National Scholarship, which is now $15,000 per year. My daughter is Junior at the U and the National Scholarship for her was $10,000. They have raised tuition a lot the past two years so I am assuming that is why.
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