<p>I would agree that PSU has the best program.</p>
<p>"At the University of Florida you need a 1400 just to be considered for the Honors program."</p>
<p>Where do you get this information? I've never heard of a single college or program setting a minimum SAT score. Is this fact, or just an observation?</p>
<p>PSU's is very unique in that it requires more essays/short answers than most Ivies and Ivy-caliber schools. It's not something you're just automatically considered for.</p>
<p>Pitt Honors...since the people at the honors college know you're at the top of the crop, they bend over backwards to accomodate you. Not to mention that BPhil degree...graduate work at an undergraduate level...not saying it's the best, but it's definitely up there...</p>
<p>What about University of Vermont?</p>
<p>"Where do you get this information? I've never heard of a single college or program setting a minimum SAT score. Is this fact, or just an observation?"</p>
<p>MSU Honors requires a minimum of a 30 ACT</p>
<p>19382,</p>
<p>"Where do you get this information? I've never heard of a single college or program setting a minimum SAT score. Is this fact, or just an observation?"</p>
<p>This is a Fact about UF's honor program:</p>
<p>Test Scores: All students must achieve our minimum score for either the SAT or ACT (but not necessarily both) as described below: </p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test - A combined score of 1400 on the math and critical reading sections. Students who have taken the SAT multiple times may use their highest subscores from any test administration of the new SAT to meet this requirement. Please note that although UF requires the new SAT for all freshmen matriculating in 2006, we are not considering the writing section subscore. </p>
<p>UT doesn't REQUIRE at least a 1400 either, but it's probably pretty tough to get in without it. From the Plan II website:</p>
<p>Although Plan II does not rely solely on grades and scores in selecting applicants, we seldom accept students who fall below the following levels:</p>
<p>Class rank
Top five percent of high school class (in schools that rank).
Exam scores
Aptitude: 1400 (1450+ preferred) in the SAT or 30 in the ACT;
Achievement: 650 (700+ preferred) on SAT II subject tests;
AP Exams: 4 or 5 on English and AB or BC Calculus.
In evaluating exam scores, we may allow strength in one exam to compensate for weakness in another. For example, you might be an attractive candidate if your Calculus AP score were 5, or your SAT II in math were 700, even though you scored 600 on your math SAT.</p>
<p>SSobick,
I was just wondering if it was a published number or sort of an unwritten rule. Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Passionflower--</p>
<p>The Rutgers honors program offers a lot and should definitely be considered, espescially if you are instate. </p>
<p>Here is the information on the program for the new School of Arts and Sciences: <a href="http://sas.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=332&Itemid=124%5B/url%5D">http://sas.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=332&Itemid=124</a></p>
<p>The program attracts a lot of really smart students from NJ and other states. If you have any questions, I can answer them.</p>
<p>Umm, Michigan has an honors program... and I'd give it the nod over any other school mentioned here.</p>
<p>Northwestern...
Honors Program in Medical Education</p>
<p>University of Maryland College Park has a number of honors programs. Many are based on an interest field such as working with children, earth and planetary sciences, political science, etc. There must be over twenty different programs, and some are more competitive than others. If you are not selected, you can nominate yourself for consideration. The school as a whole is ranked in the low fifties most years.</p>
<p>ASU due their EXCELLENT acceptance rate to top graduate programs in every field/</p>
<p>Northwestern has a few "honors" programs; two of them simply give you admission tickets to their nationally-ranked law and medical schools; other than that, the curriculum is nothing uncommon. The other two are ISP (integrated science program) and MMSS (mathematical methods for social sciences). These two have uncommon curriculum and it's incredibly intense but the reward is high (many MMSS students get job offers from top consulting/IB firms).</p>
<p>UCONN has been more and more successful luring top students away from more prestigious institutions to enroll in their honors program.</p>