<p>What are my chances of getting into the Honors Program?</p>
<p>GPA (Out of 5 pt scale): 4.0 (weighted)
3.5 (Out of 4 scale) (weighted)
Top 25% of Graduating Class</p>
<p>From MA, junior
Very Competitive High School</p>
<p>ACT score - 32
SATscore - 2200</p>
<p>SAT II Scores
-Biology E: 780
-Chem: 760
-Math Level 2:760</p>
<p>AP's:</p>
<p>US History - 5
Chem - 5
Bio - 5
Calc - 5
Psych -5
Physics -4</p>
<p>List of most important ECs:</p>
<p>-FIRST Robotics (Group Captain)
-Shadowing local dentist
-Participated in American Dental Education Association Conference (in D.C)
-MassBioEd Health Game Design Program (Cambridge)
-Varsity Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field (Captain)
-Teaching French at Elementary School</p>
<p>Interested in Chemical Engineering major with Pre-Dental</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Slam-dunk.</p>
<p>Two comments:</p>
<p>1) Research the Honors program carefully, IMO it doesn’t stack up that well against many other schools, and offers no benefits in terms of preferential class registration, preferential housing, etc.</p>
<p>2) IIRC something like 20% of students are in the Honors program, I think there’s a conclusion to be drawn there, but I’ll let you connect the dots for yourself.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I think UMass is a great school.</p>
<p>Also, why would you want to kill yourself with engineering if you plan on being a dentist? The engineering curriculum (as it is at most if not all engineering schools) is very structured and rigid. And hard. Example, it will be very difficult/near impossible to study abroad if you have an interest in that.</p>
<p>Maybe not a slam dunk. I know someone with similar stats and did not get into Commonwealth. They take 300 freshman.</p>
<p>
Where did you get this number from?</p>
<p>The web site says that there are over 3000 students in ComCol:</p>
<p>[Commonwealth</a> College: About Us](<a href=“http://www.comcol.umass.edu/aboutus/index.html]Commonwealth”>http://www.comcol.umass.edu/aboutus/index.html)</p>
<p>You can also join later if your GPA is high enough.</p>
<p>From what I’ve discovered, the hard qualifications for the honors college is a 3.7 weighted average, 1350 (out of 1600) on your SATs (I’m not totally sure about this one) and being in the top 10% of your graduating class.</p>
<p>Then again, I hit the first two marks (my school doesn’t do class rank) and I didn’t get in. I got the board to reconsider my admission as an honors student in freshman year. If not, I can always try next year.</p>
<p>The standards are getting harder for acceptance to CC.</p>