We’ll get some sort of email about whether we were accepted or not, right?
Next Friday (3/31) or Saturday. On twitter they said Friday. Good Luck!
@Gator88NE Thanks so much!
The Honors Program website now says 03/31.
Decisions have been emailed.
S rejected from Honors. 
It was a long shot.
Congratulations to all who made the cut!
Daughter was accepted after a long week of rejections and wait lists. What are the benefits of the honors college?
Is it only those who get in who get emails? Or everyone?
@AemonDaDragonite Everyone one should get an e-mail (if they applied).
@968Mom See the UF honors website. The main advantages are additional advising and access to honor classes (though students outside of honors can also take those classes if space is available).
For those that did not get in:
I should add, almost every “advantage” to being in the honor’s college, is also available to those not in the college. You don’t need to be in honors to do undergraduate research, get involved in student organization, volunteer work, apply to prestigious scholarships, etc… What the honor’s college does is put some structure around the process and helps push students to do these types of activities. As the program would say, it wants to promote student engagement. A self-motivated student can do the same things, but they need to take the initiative.
So it’s a nice to have at UF, for some folks, and not for others (who don’t want to “deal” with the honor’s structure). Some folks will drop out after a year or two and focus on their major, while some will stay in all 4 years. However, even those that stay, have less direct engagement with the honor’s program once they are juniors, as the focus is now on their major, and the honor’s program should have already helped them get more involved on campus.
At some other schools, which are not as selective as UF, the honor’s program is used to create a “smaller more selective college” within a larger university. That’s not the case at UF, where it’s used to promote student engagement. In that way, it’s similar to the small honor’s programs at other selective schools, like Georgia Tech, and not like the one at UCF.
For those that did get into the program:
Take advantage of the program and get engaged with campus. Join student groups, enroll in an “honor’s” class, and look for opportunities (especially via the weekly honor’s news letter). You gain nothing from being “in” the program. You gain much from taking advantages of all that UF has to offer.
Good Luck!
This year was also lot more competitive! 700 accepted of 2600 ( 27% accepted) and last year was 1250 accepted of 2700 (46% accepted)
We did the Lunch with Honors tour a couple weeks ago, and I highly recommend it to anyone that was accepted or is considering apply next year. It’s a 3-hr program that includes an informal lunch at a dining hall followed up with a tour of the Honors facilities. It ends with a presentation (Dr. Law, the director led our session). The $10 cost per person is well worth it if you want to get a feel for the program. I loved the fact that Dr. Law knew all the tour guides (Honors Ambassadors) by name and also knew what programs they participated in.
700 seems rather low, when you consider in the past, they want to enroll about 700 students into the program. A % of those accepted today, will end up not enrolling at UF, but at Vanderbilt, Duke, Cornell, Yale, etc. Hence why they offered it to 1,250 folks, last year. Perhaps they want to enroll fewer than 700? Then again Hume Hall has a capacity of 590, and they need to fill it to capacity (it’s a $ maker, since they charge $900 more a semester). Perhaps they want to keep the 2nd year students in Hume?
Perhaps by using the essay’s and not test scores/GPA, they think they will have a much higher yield? Will be interesting to see how it all plays out (well…interesting to me, but not many others!).
@Gator88NE When we did the Lunch with Honors Tour they mentioned that they would be accepting fewer this year due to more students accepting last year than expected. I believe they are trying to keep the HC at ~%10 of the student body.
From the UF Honors Website on the newly admitted Honors Class:
We use a holistic approach and look at many factors.
2017 Entering Honors Freshman Profile - Middle 50% Range:
GPA: 4.5-4.7
SAT: 1980-2230 (old scores), 1350-1480 (new scores)
ACT: 30-34
2017 Acceptance rate: 43%
Factors Considered in the Freshman Honors Application:
Application essays - extremely important
Weighted GPA from high school - very important
Rigor of high school record - very important
Extracurricular involvement - very important
Standardized test scores - important
Class rank - not considered
Alumni/ae relations in Honors/UF - not considered
Recommendations - not considered (do NOT send)
Interesting. 700 of 2600 accepted isn’t 43% though. Maybe they forgot to change it.
I’m thinking the yield would be 700 for honors
The email said :
There are 700 slots, so the accepted number must be higher (2600*43%=1,118) to account for yield (700/1,118= 62%).