My daughter has narrowed her choices to two: Ole Miss and Ohio University. She has been accepted to Ohio U’s Honors Tutorial College. She didn’t apply to Ole Miss’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College until after the Jan. 5 deadline, so she’s now waiting to see how many slots will left over by accepted students who go to other schools. Or, perhaps more likely, whether she should attempt to apply at their Junior entry point. It was explained during a campus visit that they’ve tweaked the “Junior” definition to mean after 45 credit hours, and she would enter with 33 AP credits, so that might mean as little as after one semester.
Stats: 32 ACT/1460 CR+M/3.7 unweighted with all the aforementioned AP rigor. Her EC’s are solid, but unspectacular. 15 years of ballet, 4 summers tutoring art at a museum, 4 years on school newspaper culminating with editorships. The art is a real talent, though she’ll be a History major with pre-law emphasis. I’m not unbiased, but I thought her essays showed a lot of care and passion.
A majority of the factors we’re considering point to Ole Miss,but we hate to pass up a top Honors College for the prospect of one she might or might not get into. Just wondering what insight anyone has on the chances. I understand there were 1,500+ applicants this year, and the most recent number of acceptances I could find was 390. So if there are just a handful of those 390 available after the May 1 acceptance deadline, she’s probably looking at Junior entry. Anybody have any experience with that? Are you aware of any stats on the profile of those accepted? Or how many? She understands a 4.0 her first semester is fairly essential. Can she apply after 45 hours (counting her AP), then apply again the following semester if she doesn’t make it? Thanks in advance for any light anyone can shed!