<p>anyone know if you have to apply into the honors after you are invited or if once your invited you’re just in?</p>
<p>Once you’re invited, you’re just in.</p>
<p>whats usually the scores needed to be invited into honors?</p>
<p>Dear phillymo : You are invited into the Honors Program for either CAS or CSOM based on your application strength. Offers are made in both the early admission and regular decision pools. Approximately 140 total offers/positions are available in the freshman class.</p>
<p>Dear Ny0rker : The minimal benchmark SAT two-way score for an offer into the Honors Program is 1450. An applicant to the university should be in the Top 5% of their High School class and demonstrate an aptitude for the Honors Curriculum. The Honors Program is offered using the Socratic method - classes in the freshman and sophomore years are generally capped at 15 students and count for six credits as opposed to three.</p>
<p>Admission Details : [About</a> A&S Honors Program - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/about.html]About”>Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences | Boston College)</p>
<p>Curriculum : [Curriculum</a> - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/about/curriculum.html]Curriculum”>Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences | Boston College)</p>
<p>Faculty : [Program</a> Faculty - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/about/faculty.html]Program”>Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences | Boston College)</p>
<p>If an EA student did not get an honors offer with the EA acceptance, might they be reconsidered along with the strong regular applicants? (D is above the SAT cutoffs and in the top 5%, but no honors offer with the EA acceptance this week)</p>
<p>thanks scottj i got invited just wasnt sure if i had to do anything else</p>
<p>Dear collegeinterest : The guidelines that we provided gave you the numbers behind the scenes. Your High School curriculum, performance, essay quality, and a number of other subtle parameters can influence an invitation into the Honors Program. Generally speaking, your invitation to the program will come with “the big package”.</p>
<p>Let’s spend a second on the numbers to get past the discussion of Top 5% in isolation. Boston College ultimately enrolls 2250 freshmen and 80% of those students are in the Top 10% of their class. Hence, we are talking a Top 10% pool of about 1800 students per grade. From those 1800 Top 10% freshmen, about 140 are offered Honors Program spots. The 140/1800 yields about the Top 7% of enrolled applicants from a pool that is 80% Top 10% in High School. This all boils down to the “Top 1%” (7% of Top 10%) of applicants from an already tough pool being offered a spot.</p>
<p>Dear phillymo : There is nothing that you need to do further for the Honors Program once your offer is made. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Well, that is not completely true. You can start reading Homer’s “Odyssey” since every one of the freshman honors sections will have that as a little light fare to get warmed up. (Seriously, you will not need to worry about any prereading until the Summer. Your orientation session will include an Honors Seminar which will brief you on the course work and your summer reading for July/August.)</p>
<p>I have a question: in my admissions packet, I received the admissions letter that says I was allotted four years of housing. There was a second piece of paper inviting me to use my Agora portal to reply to my offer of admission. As well, there was an invitation to the Honors Day (sometime in March or April if I remember), a brochure about the A&S Honors Program, and a Residential Life Booklet, which mentions the Honors Program about living at BC. However, there was no ACTUAL invitation to the Honors Program… so was I included in this, or are they taunting me?</p>
<p>ScottJ thanks for the info that you stated above. I did not realize so few students were offered admission to the honors program. It sounds wonderful.
My daughter received her packet today and it had the same info as the previous poster. I assume that means she is accepted to the Honors program in CAS becuase the info was there but there was not a letter specifically addressing it. And, she was invited to honors student day.</p>
<p>So, this means that she is not a candidate for the Presidential Scholarship, correct? It was my understanding that the PSP invitations went out on 12/18 and included offers of admission so because there was nothing in there about that, she did not qualify.</p>
<p>TKSmom: So if I haven’t received a letter yet (and a ton of kids in my area got theirs a couple of days ago) does that mean I might be considered for PSP?</p>
<p>Or my rejection letter’s just coming late…</p>
<p>Don’t know the answer to that for sure yet. Have you checked your AGORA account? Do you have the extra tabs for “financial aid award” and “pay enrollment/confirmation fee”? From what I have read on these boards, if you have those tabs, you are in. The letter will give you the specifics. Don’t know more than that.</p>
<p>So I got into honors, I guess?
Could someone please confirm that haha.</p>
<p>neogop: That is exactly what my daughter received. The packet that talks about the housing says in the front, " congratulations, you are among the top 5% of applicants…" So there is no specific letter, but an open letter in the front of the brochure that talks about the honors program and the housing. And they would not invite you to Honors Day for admitted students if you were not being offered a spot in the Honors program.</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>Thanks! I thought it would be odd if they sent all that Honors stuff and I wasn’t invited… hehehe. It’s a nice feeling. I really love the A&S Honors curriculum (from what I’ve read) and it’s certainly enticing enough to give my #1 school a run for its money!</p>
<p>To TKSmom, I read somewhere here in one of these threads recently that the acceptance and the PSP were separate last year.</p>
<p>I read that too. But another poster called admissions this year and was told that this year PSP and admissions letters would be all together in one mailing this year. I guess its possible that the admissions person was incorrect. I think we will all have the answer in a few days. I would imagine any PSP folks in the Boston/CT/RI areas will get their letters today and we will have a better idea of which way it is being done this year.</p>
<p>Bear in mind that the BC website said they were mailed on Friday, Dec. 18, UPS GROUND. UPS doesn’t deliver on Saturday, so my guess is that people outside NE won’t be hearing until Tues. or Wed.</p>