Accepted to LSA Honors!
how did you find out?
Congrats to all who have been accepted. My son is a freshman in LSA Honors this year (he found out by e-mail to his Michigan account). You see some “why bother” comments on CC. It is great being at South Quad, but that is not all. It is a great group of students (not that you cannot find that without honors). There are a lot of activities and some special classes. Like most things it is what you make of it.
D2 received an email (on her regular email account) this afternoon saying she’s been accepted to Honors College! Thanks to @wayneandgarth and @stresseddad for tracking down the information on notification!
Congrats! D also was accepted today! Now we just need to wait until the end of March to see what her her options are. Fun! @2135ar Does your son feel it is worth it? What does he like best about the program?
Excellent! Congrats to your daughter, @stresseddad !
You asked what my son likes best and whether the honors program is worth it. As to whether it is “worth it” there really isn’t any disadvantage so I would say definitely. One thing he likes (and I like as a parent) is that it makes a group of fewer than 500 kids from a group of 6000 freshman. He sees the same kids a lot, in classes, in South Quad, and socially. Kids on his hall are often in his classes. Beginning with this year’s freshman class (Fall 2014), honors students have to take three core honors courses in their first two years, and (including those) 2 honors classes as semester. But except for the core courses, the honors course may just be an honors discussion in Biology for example whereas the Biology class and lecture is not honors. That qualifies. It is not harder because they take the same tests as the overall Biology class. At most schools the benefit of honors programs is interacting with the group of students in the programs and possibly having elevated discussions in class. I am aware that is controversial on CC because all Michigan students are bright, but in honors kids have made a special effort to apply and all are very good and hard working students, with no insult intended for other students who may be the same. My son was accepted to a couple of higher ranked private schools (we are from Arizona with no financial aid) with freshman classes of around 1500 but wanted that Michigan experience (his father and I were more in favor of the other schools). Being accepted to honors helped him feel that the size was not as big of an issue. By the way, he is very happy there and has had a great year so far. His father and I now feel that Michigan was a fabulous choice for him.
Deferred, kind of surprised. Does anyone know how often deferred students end up getting accepted to the honors program?
Accepted
lol…I wasn’t sure what was going to happen since I just turned in my UChicago essay for my honors essay at the last second
Congrats to everyone who was accepted!
do you have to apply separately to honors program or everyone is considered?
You have to apply separately. Some kids are sent an email inviting them to apply, but anyone can do it. You should check out their website.
@leno4ka a 500 - 1000 word essay is required and that is it from a choice 5 topics (nothing else)…
http://www.applytohonors.lsa.umich.edu/#!about3/crt
February 25th is the next deadline.
Does anyone know how big the LSA Freshman class usually is? And how many students apply for those spots?
Cannot provide any info on numbers specific to Honors Program but here are numbers specific to LSA:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/facstaff/Home/Office%20of%20the%20Dean/LSA%20Facts/2014_Fact_Sheet.pdf
For the essay, should it be more creative or scientific? I’m wondering what tone U-M is looking for in the app essay.
I got accepted for Honors! If I am thinking to apply to ross sophomore year, is it worth being in honors? Will the mandatory courses block me from taking my Ross Pre-reqs?
Mandatory courses should not block pre-reqs. One of the three core honors courses you have to take (there are more than three to choose from but you have to take three) satisfies the writing requirement and everyone has to take a writing course anyway. You can take the second two sophomore year so you would not have to take them at all of you switch to Ross. Also, my son was told by his adviser that almost every course has an honors section so you should be able to take what you were going to take anyway and be in a honors discussion, which satisfies the requirement and is not separately graded from the regular course so will not be harder. (Plus I think the rule is not two honors course per semester but 8 the first two years so there is some leeway there also.) As for “is it worth it,” I don’t really think it is much of a cost. You get to live in South Quad with a hall of dedicated students (not that you might not have that anyway). They say advising is better although I don’t know if that is true. My son just went to a Red Wings game for $10 with honors (including ticket and transportation) so there a lots of good honors activities if you choose to participate.
Just in case students and parents are looking at this thread in the future. D2’s notification of acceptance to honors came via her personal email account. Nothing has changed on her Wolverine Access account. That’s consistent with the information other posters had received from admissions and not consistent with the information others had received from Honors.
My essay was definitely creative. I think it is important to write what you want and not what you think they want to read… that way your essay will be unique.
Who else is planning on attending honors?