<p>What kinda stats does one need to be accepted into the honors college from out of state?</p>
<p>yeah i want to know to</p>
<p>what are your stats Sen?</p>
<p>I'm a junior.</p>
<p>I'm taking the new SAT - my guess is scores will be similar to PSAT.</p>
<p>760 math, 630 verbal, 710 writing</p>
<p>Class rank 4/250</p>
<p>GPA uw 3.9ish</p>
<p>will have taken 11 or 12 AP classes</p>
<p>White Male from Competitive Public School</p>
<p>if anyone knows the stats for in-state, i'd be interested as well.</p>
<p>also, if anyone knows the exact difference between honors and scholars and gemstone, I'd also love to know. I have gotten different accounts from admissions and professors and students. it's confusing.</p>
<p>i speak at the honors info sessions so i know how this goes :P</p>
<p>in-state and out-of-state have the same requirements for honors; obviously there will be more in-state students admitted to honors because there is a higher percentage of in-state students admitted to the university overall.</p>
<p>they really do look at your entire application--so make sure your essays stand out--but numbers are important. to be honest, i don't remember EXACTLY what they are (and i don't know if i can say) but the mid-SAT for last year was approximately 1400 and the weighted GPA was somewhere around a 4.2 (on a 4.0 scale).</p>
<p>many honors students also end up getting scholarships, although it's not guaranteed.</p>
<p>here's the lowdown with honors/scholars/gemstone.
i can't say good-better-best but the general consensus among students is that it's scholars-honors-gemstone.</p>
<p>scholars is more specialized--it has programs such as arts, or science/technology (see scholars.umd.edu for more info) that you're divided into and, for the most part, you live with other people in that program. they don't take any special classes except a weekly colloquium.</p>
<p>honors is general--about 2 years (more or less depending on how hard you want to work) and you have to take 6 honors classes: a 1-credit colloquium freshman year, 3 honors seminars (these are AWESOME, i love them, and they're only for honors students), and then the other 2 can be honors-versions of regular classes (eh, usually the same class but with more work) or more honors seminars. that will get you your honors citation. you can also live in honors housing if you want to. denton hall is the typical freshman high-rise dorm; only about 70% of the people that live there are in honors. anne arundel hall and queen anne's hall are two gorgeous buildings right in the center of campus (QA was just renovated and reopened last month) and they are ONLY for honors students and are by far the nicest regular-style dorms on campus. especially queen anne's, cause i live there. (honors.umd.edu)</p>
<p>gemstone is a division of honors; i believe only ~100 students of the incoming honors group get invited to do gemstone. it's a program where you work in a small group for all 4 years on an issue/problem that you research and develop and you write a thesis your senior year. i've heard mixed things about it; i personally turned down the invitation i got because research isn't my thing. (gemstone.umd.edu)</p>
<p>there's also a program called honors humanities (honorshumanities.umd.edu) which i know absolutely nothing about and would recommend you check it out for yourself and see if you might be interested!!</p>
<p>wow, sorry this was so long. PLEASE feel free to email me (link is in my userinfo) if you have any questions, as you can see i love to answer questions and i will be completely honest with you.</p>
<p>good luck with your college search!!! :)
-lindsey</p>
<p>i heard that you could join honors later on, after you're admitted. True, completely false, what?</p>
<p>A poster above quoted " mid-SAT for last year was approximately 1400 and the weighted GPA was somewhere around a 4.2 (on a 4.0 scale)" and I just wanted to add that I just got into honors with much, MUCH lower SATs but higher gpa. I have a 28 ACT(about 1260), but only an 1190 SAT... I have a 4.4ish GPA and lots of county wide leadership stuff and a few statewide positions...I am also instate. I was really shocked when I saw I got it but I guess they saw something in me!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I looked at the Honors Humanities site, so I get the general idea of what it is. But does anyone know anything more? Do the students actually like it? How difficult is it? How restricting? What do students outside the program think of it?</p>