@runswimyoga I was wondering if your son’s portal said anything about honors? Just wondering since his stats are higher than mine and I saw in a thread from last year that for the section about attending Experience Temple Day it also said “and honors reception”? Mine doesn’t say that, does yours? Like I said, that’s from last year, but just a little disappointed if I didn’t get honors :-S
@jnkam24 My son’s Experience Temple day invite in the portal invites him to the Honors Reception.
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@jnkam24 Yes, my son’s portal says an invitation to Experience Temple Day and Honors Reception… We haven’t received the mail acceptance letter package yet … you may still get Honor’s … I wouldn’t give up hope yet…- My son’s stats qualified for Presidential so they may have just automatically invited those candidates and then as the pool shapes up expand… its still really early.
I’ll have to tell our son to keep an eye out for that on his portal. I assume invite to the Honors Reception means they get one of the top two scholarships.
@runswimyoga thanks for the encouragement but probably not. I knew my GPA was a longshot, and I wasn’t sure how their weighting would work out for me, but prepared for the worst. I was hoping for Provost, my unweighted is 3.6 my weighted is 3.8, my math + CR 1430. Freshman and sophomore years I got several Bs, but last year I had all As and 1 B, and first quarter this year I have all As and 1 B with a very rigorous course load. (I always get Bs in math, but have taken calculus and AP stat) The thing that stinks with the automatic scholarships is if I did not take challenging courses, took the easy road and got straight As and still got my 1430, I would have gotten a better scholarship, since I don’t think they look at rigor. That is the end of my 30 second pity party and congrats to your son and everyone else!
I feel your pain about the rigor/ easy road/ high gpa!! (Although without the rigorous courses maybe SAT might not have been so stellar?? hard to say ) Sometimes it even comes down to a particular teacher’s grading- some teachers are easier/more fair than others…for instance my son’s AP Calc BC teacher said it’s a college course so therefore her grading was only based on 4 tests a marking period and even then if the students got the problem right she would mark off points if they didn’t do problems in the exact method that she wanted (they had been taught another method in CalcAB) 1 problem “wrong” on 2 tests (even if the answers were correct lol) could literally equate to a C for the marking period grade… ridiculous IMO. The other teacher had tests, homework, extra credit …and it was luck of the draw which teacher you got…I kept trying to tell my son it’ll make him stronger in the long run …“if I don’t have a heart attack from the stress first” he’d retort… 
But I’m not giving up hope on the Provost’s for you yet- isn’t the GPA for the Provost’s 3.6 if your unweighted is 3.6 then you still should be in the running… I’ve heard they have their own formula and do weight for Honors/APs so I think the 3.6 requirement is supposed to be weighted… you still should be good…fingers crossed for you!!
Our son did well in the “hard” classes like Calculus BC. English and one non-honors social science class account for his D’s. Otherwise his transcript looks really good. Our hope is that a school like Temple will take a “flyer” on him in hopes that he will come close to reaching is potential, just as a sports team might take a second-round flyer on a supremely talented player with a reputation for goldbricking.
And Since your son is obviously very bright, I’m assuming the D’s didn’t come from a lack of understanding the material, but from forgetting homework or not turning in papers on time… which teenage boys seem to not be super conscientious of esp as freshmen but learn quickly once they start to care…
I know at son’s school the Ap science classes are worth 7 credits as opposed to all other Ap’s being 5 credits- so maybe your son has an AP science that is an A and will bring up Temple’s weighting if it takes into account credits…I wondered too if you take a community college course, does that get figured in to the GPA too? Too late now, but that might be a way for others to bring up Gpa’s from freshman mishaps … just a thought
My fingers are crossed for you and I am rooting for him!!
It’s obvious he learned what he needed to in AP English, since he got a 4 on the AP exam. It wasn’t forgetting, it was making a conscious decision not to do the work. He doesn’t like science, even though he’s in a science/math magnet program. He said after getting a C in biology that it was good to find out in HS that he didn’t really like science that much. Anyway, he was back on the honor roll first quarter for the first time since first quarter Sophomore year (mostly due to English). If Temple doesn’t work out he can have tuition and room paid at Ole Miss. He liked the school, but the town was awfully small to a kid who grew up inside the DC Beltway.
I’ll have to tell S to look out for the Welcome to Temple day message. I guess it’s a good sign if there’s the Honors reception invite. To the poster above with 3.6 and a 1430 SAT: I don’t see how you could not be invited to honors college. It’s probably an oversight; you meet the stated requirements.
Hmm . . . my son’s Experience Temple day invitation does not reference the Honor’s reception. He has a 4.1 W GPA (I couldn’t remember what it was unweighted but just checked and it is 3.18) and a 1450 SAT. He takes all honors and AP courses hence the pretty big difference between his weighted and unweighted GPA. I’m surprised that Temple’s calculation of weighted GPA would result in his weighted GPA being under the 3.6 cutoff for the Provost Scholarship and therefore automatic admittance to the Honors College. I actually thought he would be a candidate for the Presidential Scholarship but I guess not :(.
@adigel, since the poster above has an UW 3.6 and 1430 and also got no invite to the honors reception I wouldn’t assume your son didn’t make it. Could be wishful thinking on my part, since our son has a 3.29 UW/3.95 W and a 1460 M+CR. Hopefully they haven’t decided to get tougher with their weighting.
Those of you who have heard back, did you apply EA or rolling?
@BlueHen89 your S received his acceptance letter in the mail? Did it include scholarship information?
My son applied Early Action- around Oct 12th/ application was complete Oct 19.
i know everybody is anxious and this is a different year but my son’s acceptance package arrived the Wedn before thanksgiving 2 years ago. just to give an example of what you might expect.
so if you apply EA you can hear before January?!
@hellobroos2 Yes, Temple is releasing acceptances now and has been for a number of weeks at this point.
Thank you @adlgel !!! I was kinda confused about this whole EA vs Rolling thing