<p>I recently got accepted into the honors program at the University of Michigan, and I have a few questions/concerns.</p>
<p>Is it possible for Michigan to rescind my acceptance into the honors program, while simultaneously preserving my acceptance to LSA?</p>
<p>Also, are the honors classes actually harder than the regular classes, or do they just provide easier access to more intelligent/studious individuals? What is the interaction like between honors students and non honors students, in general?</p>
<p>This final question is sort of pointless, but I'm just curious... Is the honors program harder to get into than the Ross School of Business, easier, or about the same?</p>
<p>You can decline acceptance to honors
Honors classes are usually easier than regular classes and you have more intelligent classmates.
I don’t understand what you mean by “interaction like between honors students and non honors students”.
Honors isn’t too hard to get into with a good essay and a 32/3.9+.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. I know that I can decline acceptance to the program, but what I meant to ask was can they rescind my acceptance to just the honors program, or would they have to rescind my acceptance to the entire university? Meaning, if my performance is no longer worthy of the honors program, but still worthy of LSA.</p>
<p>Also, I am somewhat confused as to why the honors classes would be easier. My guess is that the smaller class size makes it easier to feel involved and perhaps you get better GSI’s, but wouldn’t the fact that you are surrounded by the best students make it harder to get a good grade with the curve?</p>
<p>What I meant by “what is the interaction like between honors and non-honors students” was are honors students socially integrated with the rest of the student body, or is there an “honors click” or something.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. I know that I can decline acceptance to the program, but what I meant to ask was can they rescind my acceptance to just the honors program, or would they have to rescind my acceptance to the entire university? Meaning, if my performance is no longer worthy of the honors program, but still worthy of LSA.</p>
<p>If you have enough curiosity to ask this question, I wouldn’t worry about the answer to it. They are not going to rescind your acceptance to the honors program.</p>
<p>Also, I am somewhat confused as to why the honors classes would be easier. My guess is that the smaller class size makes it easier to feel involved and perhaps you get better GSI’s, but wouldn’t the fact that you are surrounded by the best students make it harder to get a good grade with the curve?</p>
<p>Some honors classes are significantly more difficult than other classes. Some are easier. Some are easier to get a good grade because the curve. It all depends on the class. Lecture classes with honors discussion sections often try to reserve the honors section for a professor or one of the better GSI’s. Being surrounded by better students can make the class more interesting but not necessarily more difficult to get a good grade.</p>
<p>*What I meant by “what is the interaction like between honors and non-honors students” was are honors students socially integrated with the rest of the student body, or is there an “honors click” or something. *</p>
<p>This will depend on you. You will see more of the honors students in your classes so you will like have more friends in the honors program than some who isn’t will. Also if you are in honors housing you will be around more honors students. If you don’t elect honors housing, it is unlikely that it would be any more of a click than engineering students for example.</p>
<p>*This final question is sort of pointless, but I’m just curious… Is the honors program harder to get into than the Ross School of Business, easier, or about the same? *</p>
<p>They are not on same scale but Ross School accepts a number of students not in the honors program. Perhaps a little easier to get into Ross but that is just a guess.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. That was very informative. I forgot to include my final two questions in my original post…</p>
<p>1) In the invite I got to apply to the honors program back in December, it said “Admission to the Program is highly competitive: fewer than one in eleven entering UM students is selected to join the Program each fall. The median GPA and SAT I score range of the entering class of Honors students in 2009 was comparable to that reported by Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Swarthmore, Chicago, and Duke.” Does this mean that being in the honors program is comparable to being in an ivy league level college in terms of classroom experience and networking/research opportunities?</p>
<p>2) I got a small scholarship some time ago from Michigan (this was well before i sent in my honors essay). It was for 1k a year, and it said it was for outstanding out of state students, or something like that. It said it was a newly established scholarship, which leads me to believe that it is not the last that I will hear from them regarding scholarships. Does getting into the honors program mean that I will probably get a more significant scholarship?</p>
<p>The students in honors are really smart; it makes for better classroom discussion and makes a better learning environment.
It won’t help with research opportunities as you’d have to find those yourself.</p>
<p>I got that 1k/year scholarship and got into honors in early Jan. I don’t think that scholarship/honors is indicative of much…I think that scholarship we got was the last one we’ll get from Michigan. Hopefully, though, I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I would guess that they give out scholarships more to in-state students than to out of state students, which is sort of unfair considering that in-state students already have a really reduced tuition cost as it is. I suppose they have to cater to the needs of the in-staters…although I’m really hoping that they will offer more than a measly 1k a year. That’s just about enough to pay for a plane ride home once per year.</p>