<p>Recently got my acceptance letter to Tulane w/ 20k a year, but no mention of honors program. Does this mean they aren't considering me?</p>
<p>Stats:
Top 8%, would have been much higher but freshman year and half of sophomore year are killing my GPA
2190 SAT, 33 ACT
740 Bio SAT II, 680 Math SAT II
300+ volunteer hours
EC's</p>
<p>All in all what I would consider a decent resume. Contacted my admissions counselor about this, wonder what's up. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>It would’ve told you in your acceptance letter. But from what i’ve heard you can apply to be in it once you are there. During the summer or something?? It might’ve been your GPA</p>
<p>It is a fine resume, and I have no doubt you can qualify for the Honors Program after you are there. To clarify elizn’s comment, If you finish your freshman year with a 3.6 GPA, you can apply for the Honors Program. Also you can still take Honors section courses even though you are not in the program, from what I understand. I also agree with elizn that it was probably your GPA that was the difference. After all, they only have 6 semesters of performance to judge by, and you are saying half of them were not so good. I imagine the fact that you got it together and did well the last 3 semesters is what earned you the scholarship you got, along with the high test scores and EC’s. You don’t mention AP’s, but I would assume you have a few.</p>
<p>The Honors Program goal is to have about the top 10% of the freshman class invited. Tulane’s applicant quality keeps getting stronger. In the past you might have received such an invitation, as well as the next higher scholarship level. But all indications are that this year the applicant pool is such that the selectivity has become a notch more difficult. I have only heard, so far, of President’s Merit Award winners and some Distinguished Scholar award winners getting invited to the HP, but no Founder’s Award recipients. Nonetheless, your winning that scholarship is a fine achievement, and set’s you up well for success at Tulane. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. Ya man, really bummed out i didn’t try for the first part of high school. The GPA difference is like 1 whole point. And this year has been great, probably about 1.5 higher than my first 1.5 years of high school. And I’m in the IB program and have taken a few AP courses, so I hope that counts as a rigorous course load :P. I heard some saying in another thread that I could contact the guy who runs the HP towards the end of 2nd semester (May 2010) and see if they’ll take me. Hopefully the dramatic jump in GPA/class rank + some SAT II’s makes a difference.</p>
<p>“The guy” is Dr. Luongo and sure, it doesn’t hurt to try. Just don’t be too disappointed if he says no because again, there are only so many slots. There are perks to being in the HP, but it does not dramatically affect your academics in the freshman year for most students.</p>
<p>There are a lot of students that don’t “get with it” until after freshman year of high school. Water under the bridge, and you still got into one of the finest universities with $20K scholarship. That’s pretty darn good. Now you get a totally fresh start, so it seems to me the glass is way more than half full.</p>