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Please explain which of the following you would prefer and why: the opportunity to take a wide range of courses across a range of disciplines
including the sciences, social sciences and humanities, or the opportunity to focus on courses in one discipline that deeply interests you.
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<p>I want to get placed into honors and not scholars. Would answering the question affect the placement?</p>
<p>Also some of my friends my last year apparently indicated they'd prefer research (#2) yet got Scholars and many who claim to have explicitly deny having interest in research got into Gemstone. Is it really that random?</p>
<p>Would writing a note about my interest in Honors and Gemstone help?</p>
<p>it seems like a toss-up to me, from reading all of the past posts about the whole Honors and Scholars thing, its impossible to tell what you’ll get into</p>
<p>I really think honors vs. scholars is more of a stats thing. The best students from my school got admitted to honors, to one (or both) of the special programs (Honors Humanities or Honors Gemstone). So I think the questions are more geared towards honors humanities vs. Gemstone, not scholars vs. honors. </p>
<p>The way I answered the questions was that I loved studying all kinds of things (I even added that the effect of technology on society was very interesting to me due to my career choice - obvious Gemstone plug - and of course I would need an understanding of many disciplines), I was very interested in interdiscplinary research, blahblah, and yup I was indeed admitted into Gemstone. </p>
<p>If you write that you’d prefer to work on your own on specific projects, that you like art and music, dislike team research, etc. then that would indicate preference for honors humanities. You may still get shoved into Gemstone, though, because they want to put smart students into ONE of the special honors programs but there may not be enough space in honors humanities for you, despite your obvious preference for it. So that is why it appears random, although it’s not really.</p>
<p>yes, but they won’t necessarily just put you in gemstone because of that one answer. what umcp11 was saying is that they first look at who qualifies statistically for the certain programs, then look at your essays for further analysis. it isn’t one specific thing that gets you in.</p>