Chances for the Barret's Honors college?

chsowlflax17
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:02:12 +0000

ASU is NOT like other colleges: Barrett places waay more emphasis on test scores than any other school seems to. They apparantley have some formula, where each section of your application (academic record, test scores, essay and extracurricuulars) are given soem weight, and all entered in to see whether it overall meets the addmissions requirement. If you could get a 1500 (out of 1600) on Math and Reading, then you’ll probably get into Barrett. They don’t care at all about your writing scores, so it may be better to take the ACT (they look at your composite ACT score without the essay), especially if you write a decent application essay. The application essay IS important, but just to prove to them that you can write college-level essays, and are insightful.

If you have some good awards, that’ll help, but really, the EC part of it, when the Dean of Barrett came to our school, didn’t seem nearly as important as the rest of the application. However, if you’ve shown improvement in your grades, they look REALLY favourably on that. So, I think you’ve got a good chance to get into Barrett, and even if you don’t it’s not the end of the world (if you wanna go to ASU), because ASU is committed to accepting a large portion of their barrett students from within the ASU student body, if you can show you’re doing well in your college classes.

Oh, and if you can get good letters of rec, then that should really help you. Barrett says that letters of rec greatly improve the quality of your application, so if you want your ECs to stand out, get someone who knows you well to write you a letter of rec.