<p>I have heard a lot of good things about the Honors program at muohio and I was wondering if i have the right stuff to get into it. Im playing on majoring in zoology with the hope of going on to vet school.<br>
Im a white junior in an ohio public school,
Here are my specs:
GPA-3.6U/3.93W should rise this year
Rank-~10/200
Taken all adv/honors classes, AP US history AP Physics, will take next year AP English, AP Calculus AP Spanish (thats all that are available at my high school except for art history)
29 ACT (took at the beginning of sophomore year, will retake in june) Target 33
Freshman year: Freshman basketball, Representative for student govt, Track, Football
Sophomore year: JV basketball, Representative for student govt, track, football, JV quizbowl, Teachers Aide
Junior year: JV basketball, Vice President for student govt, Spanish Club, Varsity Quizbowl, Teachers Aide
Senior year: Should be President of Student govt and Varsity Quiz bowl and Varsity Basketball
National Honor Society, Boys State
Been working steadily since 16
airanderson is online now </p>
<p>Any comments you have on the honors program would be much appreciated also!!</p>
<p>D is in Honors Zoology major (pre-med). In 2006, top 200 applicants got into Honors, they might have increased the number since then… They also had Scholars - next 500, I believe. D likes it a lot. Zoology major is extremely challenging, with good number of Honors student changing their major after first Bio class. I am not sure how important EC’s to get in, GPA + scores were very important. Contact admission, ask them about stats of accepted to Honors last year. Best of luck!</p>
<p>My D is a second year scholar at MU. I was frustrated that she didn’t get honors (MU didn’t understand her German transcript) but in hindsight, I’m okay with where she is. Monetarily, the difference is $1000 per year. She gets a thou, honors students get two. Other benefits are that honors students get to register first. That would have been good the first semester or two, because she got shut out of a couple classes she wanted. But coming in with several APs moved her class-standing up, so second semester she got to register a little earlier than non-honors freshmen, because she was considered a sophomore. And she was able to force-add the honors class she wanted. So it worked out that way.</p>
<p>But honors requirements are stiffer than scholars. They require both more academic and non-academic points. She would have to take more honors-level courses, and frankly, there aren’t that many she is interested in. The courses aren’t harder - easier in fact, because classes are smaller. But there are a limited number of honors offerings. She is a double degree student with a very full schedule (23 credits this semester), and the honors classes don’t fit her requirements, nor her schedule. She doesn’t have any trouble meeting the non-academic (eg. volunteer) requirements because she does those sort of things anyway, but it is nice to not be cramming things in that she doesn’t care about. So it has worked out to be a good thing.</p>
<p>She lives in the honors dorm, as she did last year. She has made deans list every semester. She will probably end up with departmental honors in both her degrees.</p>
<p>D. is almost done with Honors reguirements. In regard to Merit $$, she got a lot of additional her sophmore year. Overall, Honors is great. She has 2 minors and priority registration has helped her a lot. Also, one summer is free tuition, which she is palnning to take this summer, getting 6 credits for her trip abroad, hopefully will work out. She cannot tolerate more than about 18 credits / semester, though. Even with 18, seems to be way too much. So far, she liked every class that she has been taking.</p>
<p>Binx, my D is in honors dorm as well, she might be in a same dorm as your.</p>
<p>I was accepted this year into honors, with similar stats-33 act. I had a big hook with music. The program seems great and even tho I only applied to miami as a safety, i am seriously considering it now. the only thing is that i was disappointed by the financial aid. i’m from ohio and some of the private schools i got into out of state will actually be cheaper, and miami is PUBLIC, it makes no sense. oh well. . .</p>
<p>cstone1492,
if you are from Ohio, you might be pleasantly surprized by final financial package. Make sure to have high GPA in college and apply to Returning students scholarships in a spring of next year. D. got additional $6500 in scholarships for sophomore year. Extremely important at Miami - FASFA, even if you are not anywhere close to need based FA. Overall, we have been very impressed with Merit FA at Miami. by the way, one of D’s minor is Music, she loves her music classes.</p>