<p>I really need to understand this better. Generally, do people accept Honors if they get invited? Why or why not? What are the significant pros of joining HP and any potential disadvantages of not? Thanks.</p>
<p>From the standpoint of the business college, if you do not accept honors, you 1) are considered pre-business and and not business 2) you do not get priority registration 3) can’t use the computer labs in the business buildings–you must find other computers on campus. We will have no choice but to accept Honors. I was told, at least for business, rarely would someone decline this. There is a wrench in Honors for us and its due to my son having almost a full year of AP credits under his belt, so the remaining gen ed’s aren’t things he not as interested in yet he must take them at the honors level. Also, they can’t tell me what the honors requirements will be next year when they change to semesters. It is currently one class a quarter. My son will go stay in honors regardless, but there is always that unknown as to how much harder it will be! This is our first time at this stuff so lots of anxiety.</p>
<p>Honors classes really aren’t any harder than standard classes, but they do have smaller class sizes which is a great advantage. Also a lot of times, honors classes use a curve centered at a B+.</p>
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<p>Yes. Good classes/advising, & you get to schedule much earlier than everyone else. </p>
<p>Disadvantages are the graduation requirements are harder (they’re not unreasonable, but they’re not going to give you an “honors degree” if you don’t work a little harder for it.)</p>
<p>When do you guys receive the invitation to Honors? My admission package did not include it. I was wondering if you have to first send in the acceptance fee before they send the Honors letter?</p>
<p>My daughter received her letter of admission on November 14. The invitation to the Honors program came a week later, and the acceptance fee letter arrived about a month after she was admitted.</p>
<p>Our honors letter also came within a week or two after our admissions offer back in November. I’d call the honors department and see if you made it in.</p>
<p>my invitation to the honors program came in the mail the same day as my acceptance fee…e-mail came the day before</p>
<p>As an OSU honors student, I have to say there is no reason to decline honors. Being honors status opens up honors courses that have smaller class sizes, are taught by profs instead of TAs, etc. There isn’t anything you lose by being Honors. If you lose honors status you just end up as a regular student the same place you would have been if you declined.</p>
<p>@311710rvmt is it difficult to keep the 3.4 to stay honors?</p>
<p>It hasn’t been hard this year (I am a freshman) to keep a 3.4 or greater. I took all honors freshman courses, but you don’t have to. You just have to take at least a certain amount of Honors courses. Also, you can only get your GECs covered by honors or higher level (300+ level for history, 500 for humanities, see GEC list for more specifics). That being said, there are a not-insignificant minority of students who have a difficult freshman year. I know Honors shows some lenience and won’t kick you out for a low GPA until the end of your sophomore year. They are also really helpful and try hard to make sure they don’t have to kick you out.</p>
<p>I have checked with Honors Office. Sadly, I won’t be invited to the Honors Program. I met the SAT requirement but according to them I was unranked. I came from a very competitive high school that does not rank students. I’m disappointed.</p>
<p>I don’t believe there are any disadvantages to accepting honors, as the honors-level classes aren’t actually more difficult than standard-level classes, but in some cases are more interesting and include less “busy-work”. The professors for honors classes I’ve taken seem to teach at higher level without grading harshly. </p>
<p>Also, I enjoyed living in an honors dorm, and scheduling several weeks ahead of other classmates has been great. Despite OSU’s size, some classes do fill up quickly, and scheduling earlier means better times and professors.</p>
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<p>That’s pretty weird. I went to a school that doesn’t rank and got into honors. (I had a good GPA, granted, and this was a few years ago…)</p>
<p>Bummer, sorry to hear that. 
You can apply once you’re a student, if you want.</p>
<p>I also have a DS who is a freshman at OSU in Honors and his high school didin’t rank also. Could you possibly get your counselor to call honors to say that you are at least in the top 10% of your class or perhaps you could submit your high school profile which would tell them what gpa is for top 10%. Although I have found OSU to be excellent in communication there have been one or two times when I got wrong information. Many high schools don’t rank so I dont think that is an across the board rule.</p>