<p>I’m going to be a senior this coming year and I have been seriously considering going to Auburn…</p>
<p>I’m wondering if Auburn Honors College is a good match for me…</p>
<p>My high school is moderately difficult…
GPA - 3.979 weighted, definitely going up my senior year
Rank - 14/310
ACT - 29 (95% percentile, minimum for invitation to Auburn Honors)
Taken 5 AP so far, (the max anyone at my school has taken), probably 5 additional ones my senior year</p>
<p>I have managed to make good grades with moderately low effort… I easily make A’s in any non-advanced classes with no real effort (h/w in the morning sort of thing)… However, for the harder math and science classes I need extra help… I made an 87 and 77 in Analysis basically sleeping during class, and worked hard in AP Calc this year and got a 91 and a 97 and a 5 on my practice exam… I could not have been that successful without a lot of extra help… I’m wondering how helpful teachers are at Auburn, if they will make time for special study sessions, if their are decent tutors available etc…</p>
<p>I’ve also been looking into Rollins and Mercer…</p>
<p>Any insight would be helpful… nothing about needing to improve anything (my stats are fine by me) but if they have a good program that sounds like a match</p>
<p>I have also considered Auburn's honors college. I have some friends that are already enrolled there, and they say that with the honor college's smaller numbers, it's easy to get extra help and good tutoring</p>
<p>I definitely want to do some sort of business major, maybe business management... i've been considering doing a dual major also, math maybe or business law or something else business...</p>
<p>i've read a lot about their scholarships, but do you know anything about the difficultly of getting a scholarship there?</p>
<p>whats the GPA requirement to get into honors college? my sat is 2010 (30 ACT equiv i think excluding the writing), but my GPA is only 3.3</p>
<p>what are the pro's of the honors college? is the course load harder?</p>
<p>i looked at the business college's 4-year plan, and for most of the majors its the same stuff for the first 2 years, then minorly different stuff the last 2, making it look very easy to double major within the business dept.</p>
<p>on their website it says you must maintain a high school unadjusted gpa of 3.5 and 29 ACT or 1280 SAT (they don't have one set for the new SAT)</p>
<p>Auburn's website is <a href="http://www.auburn.edu%5B/url%5D">www.auburn.edu</a>
from there go to prospective students, then admissions, and then down on the left click on Honors College and you can find everything i'm telling you....</p>
<p>we get our own housing, we have a mentor program, we get priority in registering for classes and typical things like that</p>
<p>the classes are harder, but i don't think you have to take more classes, you just have to complete a minimum amount of the honors classes. i imagine it's similar to high school advanced classes, it's harder than normal, but at the level where someone of your test scores is probably at, so it's interesting and fun instead or boring class where you just complete the work.</p>
<p>but i'm not exactly sure so that's why i have posted in hopes of a response from and auburn honors student.</p>
<p>oh well.</p>
<p>i hope that helped. i know it was long, sorry.</p>
<p>thanks for your info about the business program.</p>
<p>separate housing? no thanks, ill take the animal house dorms :) i also wanna try to get a 3.5+ college GPA so i dono if id want to go for the extra hard classes.</p>
<p>well i'm not sure how hard the honors classes are, i was just guessing. just by your test scores i was guessing that they might not be hard for you, but right at your level. but i really wouldn't know, just trying to help.</p>
<p>and i read a couple of other posts that say housing at auburn is running really low, so to get your deposit in ASAP</p>
<p>sorry if i sounded like a deutshe or something, im just trying to get a gpa as high as possible cause if i decide on auburn, i will be in air force rotc and will want a competitive GPA for a pilot slot... (3.3 for pilot training, 3.7 for ENJJPT where the best of the best are sent). last year auburn had 11 pilot applicants and 9 got picked, so it looks like they really do a good job, considering the national average is about 60% i think.</p>
<p>i saw the housing costs at auburn and had my jaw drop.. like $2500 a year compared to $9k a school year at UC-Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>For you guys that have applied, what did you do about your transcripts? Since I'm out for summer, I didn't know if I should wait for school to start to get it, or just go up there and tell my guidance counsler</p>
<p>I have 32 ACT, 4.06 weighted GPA, 3.98 unweighted, rank is 3/210, my school doesn't have APs but I'm taking the hardest classes available...do you think I'll be competitive for any kinds of scholarships? While money is not a limiting factor, it's an issue for me. I dont really qualify for financial aid, so I'm shooting for merit awards.</p>
<p>our school office is open for the summer, so my dad went and gave them the address and had them mail them.... our school phone lines are closed during the summer, so if i was you i would just go up to your school during the day and see what they can do...</p>
<p>i definitely think you would be competitive from an academic standpoint... it doesn't matter if you take AP's if you took the hardest classes available (they can't look poorly at something that you could not control)... your scores are above average, and the average Auburn ACT last year was a 24.2, so that's great... however it will have to be your EC's that put you over the edge, b/c even though you have great stats, they probably are not that much different from many others who will be applying for the top scholarships...</p>
<p>i'm in the same boat you are: i don't receive any help from FASFA, but i cannot afford out of state tuition...</p>
<p>also, auburn recommends applying as soon as your junior transcripts are availabe because they do a rolling admission... so with your great stats you should definitely be accepted while many will not have thought to apply yet...</p>
<p>well, is there a good trend in your grades? like did you not care in 9th grade, and then your grades dramatically improved? they will look closer at your junior year than your freshman... also consider your rank... i think you're a shoe-in...</p>
<p>see i think admissions offices will probably see that... i think you could get in... auburn replies to admissions within 7 business days... so if i was you i would go ahead and apply just b/c... it's only $25...</p>