Honors program and Scholars program

Looking ahead to next year’s application cycle and wondering-
If you were accepted into the AU Honors program, can you please share your stats? And when did you find out?
Please also share info if you were invited to the AU Scholars program.
Thanks!

I was accepted (VA) to the scholars program! I had a 33 ACT (34 superscored), 4.6 ish weighted GPA.

I was accepted from Virginia into honors! I had a 1430 SAT (680 math and 750 reading) and a 4.88 GPA.

I was accepted from MA into AU scholars with 3.5 uw GPA, 33 ACT, 1370 SAT, and full IB diploma courseload

I got into Honors two/three cycles ago (HS class of 2015)

GPA: 4.27
ACT: 32
Lots of AP/Honors classes.

We heard early Feb that we were in the second round of about 800 students and had to write 3 additional essays.
Strong writing skills is the most important factor to get into Honors by far. I know students in my cohort weren’t too strong academically/stat wise but wrote good/passionate essays.

The scholarship money is nice from Honors, but the program is a mess my year - may have gotten better in 2 years though.

@SingingSiren - how was it a mess?

@TheGreyKing The classes are all taught by 3 professors who don’t communicate well with each other nor with the students. The objectives of the class are unclear and confusing, students are given way too much homework (200 pages of reading per class, with 2-3 classes a week) that often is not even thoroughly covered in class. It’s very difficult to have a good interdisciplinary structure and they have not yet achieved it. I’ve heard it’s slightly better now that they knocked the class size to 20-25 instead of 50-60 that we had but the readings/classes were treated as a joke (no one really did them) because they wouldn’t even be discussed in class and the professors don’t really teach. The Emotions class you take 3rd semester is by far the worst class I have ever and will ever take-- Most people got low B’s and C’s in it.

According to the honors program website they have updated the courses you take in the honors program.