<p>I have already been accepted and received a scholarship. When will I get the Honors Program and username/password? Thanks.</p>
<p>Honors came after the DSA Scholarship Letter for my son. However, not all scholarship recipients are offered honors. As was stated in an earlier thread, the scholarships appear to be score driven and the honors offers high school record driven. I'm trying to remember, but it was probably a couple of weeks later. Don't look for the honors letters just yet. If you aren't accepted into honors right away, don't worry. Keep a 3.4 and you can apply at the end of your freshman year.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 unweighted, and a 1400 SAT. I have been accepted EA near the beginning of December.</p>
<p>Do you think I'll get in?
Would they have already sent me a letter if I was in?</p>
<p>Esrajay, I went back and checked the dates on my son's letters. Oddly enough, the very date I was looking for wasn't there - the Honors letter did not have a date on it. But Here's what I do have.</p>
<p>College of Engineering Welcome Letter dated Dec. 12 (rec'd day or two after acceptance)
Acceptance letter Dec. 15
January 8 notification of DSA award
February 16 letter from school thanking him for his DHS application but gently telling him he did not get it but that he would be hearing from the Honors Program.
I assume the Honors letter came a few days after.</p>
<p>I can't predict whether or not you will get in. My son hasn't figured it out after a semester since he knows several DSA's that didn't. I really think it was the fact that he had taken a full AP courseload in his public high school and had EC's that showed commitment because of the work involved - like band and AcDec. I could be totally off the mark. I also suspect that if diversity is good in admissions, it would likewise be good in Honors. Sorry I couldn't help you more.</p>
<p>Did you have to apply for the honor's program or are you automatically considered?????</p>
<p>I'm sorry to hear that alongfortheride, I know every applicant for the DHS has had their fingers crossed for months.</p>
<p>If you don't mind me asking, what were her stats and where do you live? I live in NY and am trying to figure out if I should get my letter tomorrow...</p>
<p>Stanmaster22, you are automatically considered. Ballboy, I'm a little hesitant to discuss stats in particular, but I will tell you he graduated in the top 4% of his class of 657 and scored in the top 1% on his SAT after taking it one time. He also had scores on 4 AP exams that would receive credit at Tulane. He has since received credit on 5 more. He graduated from a large 5A suburban high school in Texas. He was also accepted into the honors programs at UT and A&M. He much preferred the size and personal attention at Tulane and headed off to NO and has been very happy with his decision. </p>
<p>Please remember that after your freshman year, you can apply to honors with a 3.4 if you are not accepted initially. I do think it is harder, however, for engineering students to qualify and remain because of the extreme courseloads they carry. However, I would also like to point out that there are numerous honor societies and general societies that are available to join that don't require that you be in the honors programs. There are always ways to be around bright people that are interested in what you are interested in. After all, the campus is full of them. Many of my son's fellow engineering students weren't honors, yet got the DSA and my son has found them to be quite able to challenge anyone in the classroom and has valued their friendships tremendously.</p>
<p>Ballboy232, my s just received the DHS and never received an Honors invite. The Dean who called him last night said he was invited to Honors, that's the first we heard, so keep the faith in the fact that you never received the "invite letter."</p>
<p>along~, can a student live in Butler even if they are not in Honors? My S really wants to live in Butler if he goes to Tulane. He did not receive anything about "honors" either. (Dr.Brady wrote me an e-mail back and said that the honors invitations should go out soon. Of course, he did not have the information as to whether or not S had been picked for the honors program......)
I say "if" S goes to Tulane because although I know I posted recently he'd "chosen Tulane", he did not "sign" anything, and now he is deadlocked again because of his very tempting offer from University of Florida....so here we go again...he is going to see Tulane again soon. Then to see UF again over spring break. So that's where it stands now. Still undecided.</p>
<p>Tabby, yes, I believe he can if he selects a roommate that is part of the honors program. At least that was the situation this year. Read on the other thread that your son is indecisive at this point. Most likely, this is the biggest decision he's had to make, and I think it's quite natural to hesitate. We visited Tulane a second time after he had been accepted and received the DSA. It was our spring break and not the honors or accepted students weekends. We spent the day really talking details with profs and looking at the school from the "can I be happy here?" standpoint. It makes a huge difference. The first time, he's at the window looking in and wondering if he'll make the cut. The second time, he's in and can focus on the details.</p>
<p>Engineering students who receive the DSA will be hearing from the TECHS Society. It is one of those honors societies that is completely independent of the honors program. I think the engineering school does a very good job of offering up societies to join.</p>
<p>I have only anecdotal evidence from my son but I think you will find that the grading policy at Tulane is quite rigorous which may explain the rather low GPA requirement for maintaining scholarship money. Freshman year can also be rough if you haven't managed to test out of the intro writting course requirement - a lot of papers :-)</p>
<p>Patuxent, absolutely! When we were visiting the with the Associate Dean of Engineering Students, he had some very sage advice for my son. I certainly appreciated his honesty. He told my son that some students are worried most about class rank and gpa and that if he was one of those students, he should pick a state school with a large variance in the academic qualifications of the entering students. That way he could enter with an advantage. However, if he was comfortable being average in a class full of exceptional students, then Tulane could offer him a world class education. His point being that there has to be a grade distribution and that you are entering with a class of students that are high achieving and high scoring - most of which will have taken a rigorous high school course load.</p>
<p>I don't remember if your son is in engineering as well, but engineering is rigorous all the way through. They are required to complete 136 hours in 4 years. My son took 17 hours his first semester and eighteen this semester. Since he has AP credit, he was able to take a beginning eng. course each semester, which with the calculus, chemistry and physics has proved a challenge to say the least. I don't think that he has ever regretted his choice of schools. He loves the contact he has with his engineering profs.</p>
<p>Thanks along~and patuxent for all the good info.</p>