Accepted to LSA Honors

Mollymauk
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:40:42 +0000

72 hour turn around. Wrote the essay during last weeks SNL because the skits were bad and I just wanted to watch the Black Eyed Peas. Proofed and eddited on sunday- submitted sunday night. Hadn’t checked e-mail until now.
Here’s the letter:



Dear Molly,

Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to offer you a place in the Honors Program in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for the fall of 2010. After reviewing your UM application and Honors essay we think that you are well suited to our challenging academic program and vigorous intellectual community. The LSA Honors Program is all about providing opportunities for talented and interesting people to pursue ideas and understanding together. This email is your invitation to Honors—we very much hope you will join us.

As soon as you know your plans for next year, email us at honors.admissions@umich.edu. Please let us know whether or not you plan to come to the UM and join us in Honors: include your name and UMID number in your email. We need to hear from you no later than May 1, 2010, to reserve your place in the Honors Program. For our records, we would appreciate if you let us know where you are going to school if you do not plan to attend Michigan.

Please continue reading to learn more about
The Honors Program
Honors Housing
Visiting Honors
The Honors Program
The LSA Honors Program ([Honors - University of Michigan](LSA Honors Program | U-M LSA)), as you know, is a four-year academic program that serves the best-prepared and most highly motivated students in LSA, about 10% of each entering class. First and foremost, we want to help you set and achieve the highest possible academic goals. The program’s curriculum offers a wide range of challenging courses in almost every department and Honors concentrations (majors) in every field in the College. We offer special seminars, Great Books for introductory composition, and direct involvement with faculty right from the start of your studies at Michigan . At least half of your classes in your first two years will be with other Honors students; once you’ve chosen a concentration, you’ll have the opportunity to pursue your own independent research project under the guidance of a faculty mentor, leading to an Honors senior thesis.

To help you take the greatest advantage of the rich opportunities at this leading research university, Honors advisors will meet with you individually beginning at Orientation and continuing throughout your time here. Being in Honors won’t change your graduation requirements for LSA, but we will help you find the most interesting ways to meet them.

The LSA Honors Program is also a lively community. There is, of course, no one interest that unites all Honors students, but a wide range of activities will enable you to choose what interests you. The program has an intellectual hub in the Perlman Honors Commons, where students and faculty come together for study, conversation, and events in truly beautiful surroundings. There are informal gatherings over lunch in the dining hall. A monthly “Lunch with Honors” gives our students direct contact with many of the remarkable people who work at or visit UM, such as Salman Rushdie, the international award winning novelist; John Beilein, UM Men’s Basketball Coach; the actors and directors from the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Whether in the Commons, the office, or the dining hall, conversation ranges from politics to Plato to YouTube. Of course, you’ll also find Honors students active in every part of the wider university community, from sports to poetry, from singing to sailing, from the Michigan Daily to the Marching Band. Whatever you choose to do, the LSA Honors Program will serve as the nucleus of your career at Michigan.
Honors Housing
You may to apply to live with other Honors students in designated rooms in South Quad (coed) or the Martha Cook Building (women only). Honors Housing is an option for students who wish to live with others who share a commitment to an active community and the life of the mind. There will be instructions regarding Honors Housing in the online Housing application available beginning in late March after a student’s enrollment deposit is paid. While we cannot guarantee you space in Honors Housing, if you complete your Housing Application by May 1, your application will be considered in the first drawing for room assignments. Go to the UHousing website for more information about the housing application process: [UM Undergraduate Housing - How to Apply for Undergraduate Housing](http://www.housing.umich.edu/info/freshapp.html).
Visiting Honors
Meanwhile, we encourage you to visit Ann Arbor and see the campus for yourself. The Campus Days program, which includes tours, classes, and information sessions, is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions during Winter Term. See your admissions packet or the Admissions office website ([Office of Undergraduate Admissions: Admitted Students](Apply | University of Michigan Office of Undergraduate Admissions)) for information on Campus Days and how to register for a visit. While you are on campus, please come to the LSA Honors Program information session, held each Campus Day from 2:25 to 4:00 in our office in 1330 Mason Hall. We’ll describe the Honors Program in more detail and answer any questions you may have. We’d like to meet you.

We are always happy to answer any questions you may have about the program or about other aspects of life at Michigan. As you prepare to come to LSA Honors, you’ll find answers for many of your questions on our website: [Honors - University of Michigan](LSA Honors Program | U-M LSA), and feel free to call us at (734) 647-4486 or email us at honors.admissions@umich.edu.

We hope to hear from you soon that you plan to join us in honors, but please remember that you need to let us know your decision no later than May 1, 2010.

Sincerely,

Timothy McKay, Ph.D. Scott Kassner, Ph.D.
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics Assistant Director
Director