<p>I just spoke with Michelle at the UW Honors Office. I had some questions regarding discrepancy in statistics on the UW honors website and the UW Honors Program Admission information booklet my daughter received at the UW Summer Scholars Program she attended last summer. </p>
<p>The Honors Program booklet states the following:
2006 Honors freshman class:
Number of applicants: 1772
Number invited: 806
2006 Honors freshman class:341
Average high school GPA: 3.92</p>
<p>The website doesn't mention number invited which makes it appear a much lower number get accepted than actually do. </p>
<p>Michelle said that they have over 2500 applications to the Honors program this year. Approx 750-800 will be invited to participate in the program and they expect the 2008 freshman honors class to be around 300 people. The number of invites is larger than expected class size because of people choosing to go to a different college. So roughly 25% will be admitted, however of all the applications, not all are complete to begin with so the actually admittance rate of completed applications is even higher. </p>
<p>She said they send out invited/not-invited/wait list letters as the applications are reviewed and a decision is made. </p>
<p>Michelle said they hope to get all notifications out by mid-April, and that because it is a manual process the applications don't necessarily get read in order of admittance to UW. Michelle looked up my daughters information and assured me that the reason we haven't heard yet (UW app and honors app submitted 11/7...admitted to UW 12/17...waiting on honors ever since) is because it hasn't been reviewed yet. She said we would have received one of 3 letters if a decision had been made yet.</p>
<p>We found this information hopeful and perhaps others may as well.</p>