<p>I think the trick with honors is that it’s not just about the raw numbers. You have to show a passion for learning, an effort to do more than the traditional full load of APs (like taking 13 hours of university credit during high school), and have a great and creative essay (based on intriguing, original ideas, not just well-written). (My S also has so many ECs with leadership positions that I didn’t bother to list them all. I think that had a lot to do with it, too.)</p>
<p>To those who don’t make it, check out some of the residential learning communities and take honors classes. You don’t have to be in the honors program to graduate with honors. There are lots of interesting learning opportunities that might be better suited to your unique style.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>Not to be cocky, but I don’t understand why I got rejected from the Honors College today either.</p>
<p>I applied at the end of January, and just heard my decision today, after emailing back and forth with the honors coordinator to see whether my application went through or not.
Apparently it did, but why am I just hearing my decision like 2.5 months later?</p>
<p>I know of some students who were accepted into the Honors program, and I thought my stats were better than theirs. The Honors program brags about their students being ivy level/duke/stanford/etc level- and I got waitlisted or accepted at a number of those schools.</p>
<p>I thought my essay was very good too.
Was my rejection on part because of the administration? I had a lot of problems with my Wolverine account- I had 3? and they didn’t work 1/2 the time- so was my rejection on part because the whole honors college was basically full by the time they read my application (I’m honestly guessing today or this week), and so I got rejected?
In other words, I’m asking, was it possible I got rejected because of an administration error, and not my own lack of resume?</p>
<p>thank you in advance :)</p>
<p>Honors is not purely numbers based. There are many more students with 3.9+ unweighed GPAs and 1400+/32+ SAT/ACT scores in the college of LSA than can fit in the honors program. I would estimate that only a third of students qualified to get into the Honors program are selected.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that not all schools have a plethora of AP classes so not everyone can boost their GPA. My son’s school only had 6 AP classes and he was only able to take 5 of those based on his schedule so he will end up with a maximum 4.27 GPA (4.0 UW).</p>
<p>I don’t think UM considers the weighted GPA. Which is a good thing, because my school didn’t weight.</p>