<p>I got accepted last week, which was cool, but I was kinda hoping to get offered honors program. I've gotten that from several other potential choices.</p>
<p>My stats were UC weighted 4.1, lots of schedule rigor, 2170 SAT, and tons of EC and leadership, varsity sports capitan, MVP, etc.</p>
<p>This college admission stuff is hard to figure out! probably had a GPA that was a couple tenths too low? Perhaps I should have taken a bunch more honors classes instead of those AP's</p>
<p>Or should I even care. Is the honors benefit really worth anything to you?</p>
<p>It may be that you were over qualified, and they’re expecting you to get into UCLA or Berkeley or honors at another UC anyways. I know my friends and I differed in where we received regents scholarship/honors. </p>
<p>Don’t get too bummed out about honors. I received it, joined it, and dropped it. IMO its best perk is priority enrollment.</p>
<p>I know moey is trying to be nice, but it doesn’t really make sense that they would purposefully not offer it to someone “over qualified” (whatever that means). The truth is that students are chosen for chp holistically. In other words, selection is based on the overall impression that your application gave. Perhaps something rubbed them the wrong way. Who knows?</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of other really great choices. I hope you’ll still consider uci- it’s an underrated school in my opinion.</p>
<p>imo, honors is amazing. You get priority enrollment, four years of guaranteed housing, graduate student library borrowing privileges, respect from professors, a great community to hang out with and a bunch of other benefits.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m also biased because I still receive benefits of housing and graduate library borrowing from regents. However, housing guarantee didn’t end up being that nice to me anyways :(.</p>
<p>And I know some people weren’t offered CHP at UCI but were offered it at UCSD or people who were accepted into Berkeley and prestigious private schools, but not into CHP. </p>
<p>Regardless, you can’t change anything now. If you really want to be in CHP, you can always apply for it before your 3rd year - I think? But just because you aren’t a CHP student, doesn’t mean you can’t still be known as a great, smart one.</p>
<p>Although I don’t think UCI or CHP practice Tuft’s Syndrome. It could be that there was just a set number of CHP spots and you didn’t make the cut (budgets are being cut everywhere). Your numbers are good, but don’t scream great to me. UCI will claim they admit holistically, but the sheer number of students coming in each year means they have to weigh numbers far more than they’ll admit. </p>
<p>Honestly, the only benefit I see to CHP is priority enrollment. Humcore and Soc core are both open to general enrollment, if you REALLY want to take those classes (although I believe CHP kids get their own disc section of Hum Core). And you can do a departmental honor/thesis regardless of CHP.
And I’m a commuter, so I haven’t dealt with any housing problems, but I’ve never heard of people having issues finding housing.</p>
<p>OP: Are you reallying considering coming to uci? If you are, honors is probably going to be a small part of that anyway.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the feedback. Yep, UCI is in my top 3. Love the location, the feel of the campus, and I have a few friends there that are loving it. Priority enrollment would have been the bomb. I’m not gonna complain too much, because I got in, and i know a lot of other qualified kids will not in this time of cut enrollments and budgets. This whole admissions thing is so random. I also have friends who have either gottin in or not to places you’d totally expect they should, or shouldn’t, even when others with different stats did get in.</p>
<p>As it gets to stats, I shoulda done better in my freshman and first half sophmore year. That cost me .2 or .3 GPA points, but at least my trend was good!</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you cc’ers as those letters start coming in</p>
<p>ugh you guys are lucky…im on a rampage constantly checking my email every morning and application status just to see if anything at all changed, sadly it always ends with me being disappointed and waiting for tomorrow. Haha well enough of my b<em>#$</em>ing…from what ive heard you could still join the honors program after getting good grades in uci</p>
<p>@theleakers unfortunately no…but i’ve been less paranoid now that i decided to stop checking my email and going on this site for weeekdays lol. You?</p>
<p>^You should have received an e-mail about the CAL grant and your EFC from FASFA by now… That should give you an idea of how much aid you’ll be receiving.</p>
<p>I am not a california resident, so i didn’t apply for CAL grant. FAFSA told me that my EFC is 0. How much money can an out-of-state expect from UCI?</p>
<p>yeah they have sent all the honors invites out because yesterday was campus tour or something for CHP invites. i have lower stats then some on you who posted, but i got the invite. i am elc so i have no idea. but i dont think i wanna join, since i don’t really want to take a humanities core.</p>