Hi, my son has been offered admission to TCU for the fall of 2020 as well as a faculty scholarship. He has decided to attend TCU but he is really hoping to be offered admission to the honors program. Any thoughts on whether it is better to accept the admission offer before or after hearing back from the honors program?
Hey @LJ Congratulations on you and your son becoming part of the Frog Fam! If I were you I would wait to accept, as it can’t hurt. If you are worried about getting a leg on signing up for things, those only become relevant sometime in April, and he should hear back about Honors by then. And overall, you have until the national reply day. His admission offer and scholarship will remain the same, and although I don’t know the specifics of Honors dates, I think they should come out sooner rather than later. The hardest part of making the decision is over, so sit back and relax until it is closer to the deadline to officially commit 
let me know if I can answer or clarify anything else for you. Go Frogs!
My daughter is a sophomore in Honors at TCU and she received her Honors acceptance right around this date 2 years ago. We waited to accept until she was offered honors, but we also let her admissions counselor know her acceptance was tied to honors. So I don’t know if that helped, but it didn’t hurt either, because she was offered the honors college. I highly recommend it.
I am new here and my twins are juniors in high school. My daughter wants to attend TCU and major in ballet. She meets the basic stats already for the Chancellor’s Scholarship invite. She scored a 1500 on the SAT and has a 4.0 unweighted GPA. Presently she is #6/ 554 in her class. I know it is competitive. Does it appear that you must apply for the Honors Program to be considered? It looks like she needs to make sure she has some leadership positions in clubs and organizations. I think she will have 6 AP and IB classes on her transcript. Any more insight and tips for our senior year will be appreciated.
@ChloeClay - congrats to your daughter on her wonderful stats! I’m sure she will be in the thick of things for the Chancellor’s scholarship, though it is very competitive. My daughter had similar stats, 10 APs, and was a National Merit Finalist, but did not get a Chancellor’s invite. That said, I think everyone who is a Chancellor’s Scholar is in the Honors College. She should apply for Honors — there are advantages to having access to Honors classes regardless of major.
Also, FYI, my daughter considered the ballet BFA at TCU. We did a special visit to campus spring of her junior year to check out the ballet department. She took class with the ballet majors, got a tour of the dance building, and met with students and teachers. Although she ultimately decided that she did not want to do a ballet major in college, the visit was wonderful and we very much appreciated it. If you haven’t done something like that already, I highly recommend it!
Hi, My daughter was accepted into Honors and is super excited about it. Does anyone know how the kids find each other to plan roommates? She had a potential roommate if she did not get honors but her friend won’t be able to live in Honors housing so now my daughter is wondering how to find the other honors kids…anyone have experience with this?
My daughter received honors acceptance last night.
@Caroline3206 - my daughter lived in Milton Daniel her freshmen year and there were definitely students whose room mates weren’t in honors. I would communicate with housing on this.
@ChloeClay My daughter has very similar stats to your daughter:
1500 SAT
4.5 W GPA, not exactly sure of UW, but around a 3.9.
11 APs
NMF
She did not get an invite to Chancellors, but she was admitted to the Honors college.
So I would really ask questions about what they want to see for Chancellor’s invites. We were told it was really stats driven, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. So I would recommend trying to dig deeper when you visit.
D21 UW GPA 4.0, mostly AP’s, TO, many EC’s and leadership roles and nonprofit founder. Offered Dean’s scholarship and invited to apply for Honors college, which she did, so now we wait. Also accepted to SMU with same amount of merit. Wondering what her likelihood of acceptance to Honors might be - thx.
She will most likely be accepted into the Honors college 
. I’d give it about a 95+% chance, unless there’s something that you’re not mentioning that would reduce the chances. The honors college here is actually limited mostly by people who just don’t apply, as far as I know there aren’t many people who apply and are denied unless theyre completely unqualified.
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