As of today my D has not received an honors invite. She just submitted the additional essay prompt as well as her 1st semester senior transcript which includes dual enrollment courses and two AP courses. So far MSU is the only school that hasn’t extended an honors invite to her.
Son applied by 11/1, got the financial award letter today 12/28. Just the 15k guaranteed, no honors college. He’s a weighted 4.15 with about 7 or 8 AP tests done and a 30 ACT. We are out of state, so I think MSU was not going to be his first choice unless they had given at least 10k more to keep up with a few other schools, but we wanted to apply and check. It’s still possible, but the remaining cost has a bit too much OOS premium for me. We did love campus on one of our visits and it was good to go through the process with a few schools. I have a feeling the honors is going to work out at this top choice, so this is good place to start.
Hi - does anyone know of the OOS Grants increase over time? I see a nice initial amount in the finance area of the portal. I believe the honors college $5,000 is not included in that grant and will be added later on…
i think the honors college is an automatic thing for a kid with your son’s credentials. there is no specific application process at MSU.
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The Honors College invite just came in the mail. No email. And strangely the Honors scholarship isn’t showing in the portal, just the OOS and Study Abroad.
i heard from the admissions team that the honors college $$$ will be added to the portal later on - it is a separate thing from the admissions $
Sounds very much like my daughter. OOS slightly higher GPA. She would attend if they have more money but the $17500 scholarship offer isn’t enough to make it a better choice than Miami U, OSU or some of the other schools.
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Thanks, that helps. I did see that for us and unfortunately I don’t know if our top 3 schools know they are negotiating right now. I want to see what they all offer and what my son thinks then we may call them and ask if that’s the final offer. A few thousand on their part could get 4 years tuition, so it’s really up to them if they want to move a bit more. We are not as close to MSU drive-wise, so that’s one of the other things they have to overcome.
What is the word limit for the Honors College Essay? The website doesn’t have that detail other than the prompt.
There is an email where you can send the essay. I believe it says there is no minimum or maximum words.
Thanks.
Are you in state?
My daughter is in state and has not had any scholarship offers. I’ve seen a bunch of OOS student comments that they have though.
I’d suggest that you reach out to the AO. I’m OOS, and I’ve received notice of my honors scholarship $ but nothing has posted to my portal yet. I’ve heard that they wait until the ADS competition for some of these scholarships to see who does well, then they make final awards/offers/adjustments (up).
My OA has been very helpful and responsive to any of my questions.
yes, I’m in state
My daughter got her ADS invite just over a week ago and today her official Honors College invitation and additional $5k award offer. We are OOS so hoping she can land additional scholarship offers to make attending possible
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Has anyone tried enrolling for the ADS competition exam through D2L portal, but had an error when clicking the “enroll” button that says:
apps.d2l.mus.edu says save failed. Missing Parameters.
I just made a MSU Net ID in order to sign up for the exam.
Update: I’ve tried logging out and logging back in. I can’t log back into the D2L portal with my net ID now, there is an error message saying:
There was a problem processing your authentication.
Your username/password was invalid or your particular user does not exist on our system.
If you have any questions please see your system administrator.
Of course I will call up for help but just wondering beforehand if any of you also have the same problem.
My daughter got her honors college invitation today as well. Our mail never comes before 7 pm, but when the mail still had not come by 8:30 pm, we thought this was one of the nights they didn’t make it to our street and we would need to wait until tomorrow night to check again. It was great to receive it!
We had the Missing Parameters message as well.
Same here - my son just tried to enroll in the exam and got the “missing parameters” error message. Since this is the first time the ADS has been online, there’s probably some glitches.
Did anyone get an email with info about the Thursday & Friday info sessions, and whether they’re registered for this week or next?