<p>When does UT Austin start awarding merit scholarships for Fall 2014 and also when do they notify folks about the Honors program? We've heard from several other colleges, but not from UT Austin.</p>
<p>BHP kids have already heard about admission and scholarships. Maybe more scholarship offers will go out. I don;t know for sure. The first wave of DS, HSS, Turing emails have already gone out. But I don’t think merit scholarships for those honors programs have gone out yet. I don’t know when the notifications happen. I am dying to know too.</p>
<p>@yetanotherid: do you have first hand knowledge about BHP scholarships?</p>
<p>@2jeter - Yes, I have first hand of knowledge. There was a dinner and shortly there after a postal mail with the award was sent to my friend. This was early Feb maybe.</p>
<p>@yetanotherid: Do you think to get merit scholarship offer, we should accept the admission first? Have you already accepted your admission offer? Thanks.</p>
<p>@Rafael428 - I don’t think so. I have not accepted admission offers from any school.</p>
<p>Merit money is supposed to come I believe late-March</p>
<p>Not selected for any of CNS honors. UW GPA 4.0, SAT 2400, SAT subj(800+800+760), National AP scholar, NMF, reasonable ECs with leadership positions. I don’t know what was wrong. It seems like CNS honors doesn’t like me at all. I know a couple of my friends got accepted as Dean’s scholar. Their stats are way lower than me. How can I join UT’s regular CNS in this situation although my parent wants me to go to UT ! I’m really sad.</p>
<p>^ Same as gr8kids. Straight A’s at a rigorous school that UT knows, 35 ACT, several leadership positions, lots of ECs and volunteer hours, AP Scholar, etc. I received several full tuition scholarships to other schools, including one that I would consider slightly lower than UT and one that I would consider to be a much better school so I was not planning on attending, but it’s still a bit annoying. </p>
<p>Will u guys still go to ut despite lack of $$$$</p>
<p>It’s not a matter of money but of benefits among huge crowd of students in UT, especially in CNS. As a ivy-like quality applicant, I’m looking for a school comparable to ivies in undergraduate education at a reasonable cost. My parent believe the UT honors program will give me ivy-quality education as a great stepping stone to graduate school and I was convinced. But w/o CNS honors, my parent should pay $60,000/year for my undergraduate education in a prestigious private college. (I already got EA admission from one of the top 5 colleges and expect to get more RD decisions by end of March.)</p>
<p>You can transfer into Honors at UT. Small consolation, perhaps, but if you end up there, once you do well, you can apply to Honors. Looked it up because I have a kid who might not be offered it pre enrollment, but could probably work hard and get there. </p>
<p>@lizardly, How do I know if I can be transferred to Honors from regular class? It seems like it doesn’t require academic excellence but something. (Please imagine how much I put my effort to get the high stats and ECs.) Since I don’t know what is the something, I cannot risk my future. If you know how to work hard to be there, please give me advice.My parent will understand my situation.</p>
<p>I looked on the web for Liberal Arts honors. I think it just takes good college grades. You toil away a semester or two in the Gen Pop and then you can transfer. There was an earlier poster on this forum in McCombs who insinuated the same, that good college grades will allow you to transfer to honors. </p>
<p>Don’t take my word for it, though. I think you should contact someone in honors in the college (CNS?) you want and talk to him. See for sure if good grades will let you transfer. </p>
<p>A separate question is whether you can be in an honors class, like an honors math or physics class. My best guess is yes, if you can show you belong there from test scores or performance in a prereq class. I have a kid in honors classes, and I don’t think every kid in the class is in the honors program, but I could be wrong. These classes are smaller and more theoretical for the sciences. I think it would be worth talking to someone at UT about this issue as well.</p>
<p>Good luck. It sounds like you do have some other, great options. </p>
<p>Thanks for advice. Let me think about that. Another factor is my emotional agony when I may be at same classroom or same campus with my HS friends who are already in the Dean’s scholar roster. I admit I am not mature enough to overcome it. I think I should go to colleges other than UT although it costs a lot to my parent. (Or I can go for half ride in top 30 colleges or full ride in top 100 colleges. I already got accepted to there.) </p>
<p>Congrats wish I could be as smart as you ^ lucky </p>
<p>@gr8kids If you can work your way into honors you shouldn’t be ashamed, you should just do it, and be proud that you are saving your parents 100K. It is a benefit to you to know that you have to be on top of your game and get great grades at college. It will make you pay attention to remaining a top student.</p>
<p>A student who gets consistently good grades and has good experience in their field at UT Austin can get into any graduate or professional program. This will not ruin your life. Setbacks like this build resiliency if you face them and overcome them.</p>
<p>@geomom, while waiting for RD notices next week, I got U Chicago with 12k/yr, Vanderbilt with 5k/yr(expecting more after official release next week), Case with 30k/yr, U Pittsburgh with full tuition and some other lower but top 100 colleges with full ride. Do I still need to seriously consider going to UT w/o CNS honors ?</p>
<p>No you GOT A FREAKING FULL RIDE IF I WAS YOU I WOULD BE CHOOSING AGAINST U CHICAGO RANKED #4 in the whole world or Pittsburgh. You have great options man. And vanderbilt!!! You would be crazy giving those up for ut. Chicago cns is stellar compared to ut.</p>
<p>Clearly UT is not your only lower-cost option. I would weigh all the choices. And while a fine student like yourself can do well anywhere, there is a lot to be said for feeling wanted.</p>