Hello all!
After doing some research into the Temple Honors Program, I realized that there are different levels of scholarships for the honors students. (i.e. President’s Scholars= Full Tuition, Provost’s Scholars= $10,000, etc.) I am wondering if honors students are directly admitted into these scholarships if they meet the requirements, like a high GPA and SAT scores, or if honors students must apply to these scholarships. Thank you for any answers!
last year, the kids were directly admitted. i think it is the same this year
Okay, thanks!
The President’s, Provost’s, and Dean’s scholarships are automatic depending on your GPA and test scores. Admittance to the Honors program is subjective and separate. Honors students get an additional $4000 stipend for summer study but no additional merit aid.
i want to clarify some things and please verify everything i say against Temple admissions as i am speaking about the class of 2018(ie current freshmen) so i may be unaware of changes made this year. For the top 2 scholarships, for any admitted students who meet the criteria, they are awarded the scholarships automatically and are automatically admitted to honors. the kids apply to Temple via whatever format they chose to apply and they do not have to do anything else unless it is specific to their major (e.g. art students also need to submit portfolios). Students who are automatically admitted to honors get the applicable scholarship and one to two stipends. i know the top scholarship is now 2 stipends. i am not sure if the second highest scholarship recepients still get a stipend. i think they do but that could be one of the changes. I think students not automatically admitted to the honors program may still apply to the honors program and am admittedly hazy on those details. and yes, as noted above, students admitted to honors via a separate application are eligible for one stipend.
Hi Ctl,
If you mean transferring into the honors program then students do not get a stipend.
future, i think they might now. or is that just for people who apply to honors as freshman(that are not automatically admitted to honors program)? and therefore, not applicable to students who get accepted to honors program after their first semester. i thought i saw this on the admissions website. maybe it is just for people who started at Temple in or after Fall 2013. i think fall 2013 is when stipends started for new admits? and to all, this is why everything should be verified with Temple directly. future is a student at Temple, so they know more than me. here is what i pulled from the Temple honors website. “*President’s and Provost’s Scholars are automatically admitted to the
Honors Program… Dean’s Scholars and Founder’s Scholarship recipients,if admitted to the Honors Program, will receive a one-summer, $4,000 education enhancement stipend”.
so i take this to mean freshman who competitively apply for the honors program and get in get one stipend, it is possible if admitted to honors program after you complete your first semester, you do not get a stipend. i suggest to prospective students to contact honors directly to clarify this issue. i do know that when we attended admitted students day last year, the upperclassmen were not able to get stipends as Temple just started the stipends very recently. i think teh stipends started with the freshman who started in Fall 2013. The upperclassmen were lightheartedly bemoaning this to the new admits 
Hi, I have a specific question about the 2016 Presidential Scholarship criteria listed at http://admissions.temple.edu/sites/admissions/files/uploads/15_16_ADM_Scholarship_APP_proof4bFINAL%20%281%29.pdf - which they appear to have just updated in the past week.
The following criteria are listed. There is a SAT threshold and an ACT threshold.
I do not see where it says “or,” although it may be implied. If a student has taken both the SAT and the ACT do they have to meet BOTH of these? My D is in great shape on one but a tiny hair below threshold on the other.
Thanks in advance
I have a related question to ohiovalley16’s. I assume a student who receives one of the top 2 scholarships isn’t obligated to enter the honors college. I would think it wouldn’t be a requirement, but that the vast majority would want to. I’m not sure our son would. I asked him if he was going to apply for honors college at another school where he’s applying, and he said “probably not.”
@ohiovalley16 and @mstomper - I just called admissions. The Presidential Scholarship requires the SAT or the ACT - not both. The Presidential Scholarship is independent of the Honors College - a student can be awarded the scholarship without being in the Honors College. This is the same way it was handled last year, when my daughter got it.
Great! Thanks @WindowMomto2 . Could I message you sometime about the Honors Program and how your daughter’s doing in it? What’s her major?
@ohiovalley16 - certainly - I will try to answer whatever I can!
Thanks, @WindowMomto2. Our eldest seems to be sick of gifted, honors, AP, ect. I think he’d like to be a "regular"student for once.
The Honors program has worked well for her so far. She really appreciates the priority registration. She started in nursing, which is a sequential program. The honors and nursing advisers worked with her so that she could choose classes that worked with both programs. She didn’t choose to live in the honors dorm yet still took part in some of their activities.
How is the honors dorm as a living environment?
my son liked the honors dorm. seemed to have a lot going on for those who wanted it, he mostly knew people on his wing, i think more outgiong kids probably met kids on all wings and all over campus for that matter.
mstomper, encourage your kids to go for honors, my kid took some regular core classes and regretted it. classes were big, one teacher was hard to understand. he is very likely to go honors for the rest of his core classes and has found those classes to be great… his classes in his major are not honors(and he has liked all classes in his major so far) so he gets his regular classes that way, if your kid hates honors, he could always leave it his sophomore or junior year. id suggest he give it a shot for 3 semesters, get many or perhaps all core classes out of the way through honors, and then reconsider when he is primarily taking classes in his major as to whether he wants to stay in honors. does he have a prospective major yet?
His major/minor are math and film. He may switch them around, or double major. Honors may be a hard sell, because he’s always been in G/T or magnet programs. Sophomore year he seemed to get tired of it, and started having big problems with not turning things in. Like me, he doesn’t seem to like school that much. Unlike me, he has an elite level SAT and PSAT. He seemed to get sick of being a “smart kid” and the expectations that label entails. I can identify with that; I actually informed my parents toward the end of my senior year that I didn’t want to go to college. S seems pretty excited about it. He also doesn’t seem interested in challenging himself too much. If he’s interested in something, he’ll work at it. I’m thinking that writing long papers on topics he has little interest in would be excruciating to him.
@mstomper, first, I want to say that I do not have a student attending Temple, however, we gave it serious consideration. One of the reasons we (parents) liked Temple so much was the advising in the honors business school. I don’t know if all programs are like this , but we were VERY impressed that the honors advisor actually knew most (perhaps all) of the students and their interests. While we were waiting to speak to her, we overheard her talking about a new internship opportunity that just came in and that she thought student A would be a perfect fit because of his interest in such and such. We talked to several students about the advising and they all agreed that this advisor at least really knows the students and it has helped them with getting specific courses, internships, etc. I’m not sure this happens to students who are not in honors simply because there are too many students to know. Our son did not like the campus itself (we are from a rural area) and decided on a different school.
Does anyone happen to know if for the Presidential scholarship the M+CR of at least 1420 is one sitting or superscore, because my one sitting is 1410 and my superscore is 1430?!
For the last two years, I believe Temple has super-scored. To verify that Admissions is still following this give the office a quick call.