Are applications still open to Elon’s Honors, Fellows or Scholars programs? DC says he got an email asking them to apply to one of those programs (don’t recall which) and I’m wondering if it makes sense to apply or would it just be a waste of time.
Scholars applications reopened for kids who didn’t get Fellows.
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Scholars is the only thing that is open at this point. Honors and Fellows were due long ago. But, he likely got a scholars email recently.
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we’re in the same boat as you. As my D said to me today, after I explained to her how FAFSA works “So, you’re basically saying that because you saved money for retirement and my 529, it means the government is penalizing you because you’re smart with your hard earned money!?”
Sounds bout right, D !
Elon was one of two colleges to get an “A” grade on their response to anti-semitism on campus. Yay Elon!
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Yay Elon!
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To those that came before us, any advantage/disadvantage to EA/ED/Reg for securing honors, fellowships and the like?
My son applied EA in 2023 and is currently in the Fellows program at Elon. I dont think it made a difference at that time as those applications were separate and due in January. Now that it is part of your main application I wonder if it will! I have a senior this year and he is also applying EA to a fellows program.
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If so, I’m trying to discern if the advantage if any is to the early/committal students or the regular decision high stats crowd they want to sweeten the pot with.
Honestly, last year tons of high stats kids saw deferrals and no merit in EA. I am not sure how RD went, but I can say my high stats kid (4.5 gpa/33ACT) was accepted EA and initially say no merit. We were shocked as many with lower stats and scores or test optional got the $10k presidential. She then applied for honors and fellows and got invites to neither. Both are very competitive, but once again, we were very surprised as she was a strong candidate for both. She was given the presidential at that point, but by then decided to move on to a higher ranked school that was less expensive.
FWIW, we are in NC and there is a week where NC students can apply for free, so I think competitiion among NC students is very high.
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Would you be open to sharing your daughter’s stats? My daughter is thinking of applying but would need the Presidential Scholarship and admittance to the Honors program to make it work. I’m trying to figure out if this is realistic for her (4.0 UW / 4.5 UW, IBDP, SAT: 1520, lots of extracurriculars).
I attended an Elon presentetion last year in which they discussed honors, fellows and presidential scholarship. Based on what they said there…those who get the highest scholarships have stats similar to yours. My child’s stats were a little lower and I think she had a decent shot. Will never know because she withdrew after EA acceptance and before honors/fellows were announced. But I definitely think your stats make you competitive for their top scholarships. Good luck!
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Thank you for the information. Where did your student end up?
Villanova
That’s great. Congratulations. I’m now going to go research Villanova as I know virtually nothing about it. 
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Presidential is likely but show plenty of interest. Honors only accept 60 per year and I think last year like 2000-3000 applied, so Honors (unlike other colleges) is not a given for a kid with stats well above the average. Mine had stats nearly identical to yours and only got presidential. It was crazy too because she actually had research experience and wrote about her long standing interest in it and examples of how she has reserached since she was young, and she didn’t’ get an invite.
Wow, that’s surprising. I’ve seen people theorize that geography may play a role in Elon decisions. Are you in NC, or somewhere else in the SE?
NC resident, and Elon is part of free app week in NC, so tons of kids apply since it’s free.
But yes, now that I just looked at these stats, it is surprising since she was above the test score (by a lot) and above the gpa, since they recalculate in some way.
Check due dates for honors. Mine was accepted ea and then accepted fellows, we didn’t make the honors deadline.
I think they’ve changed it and it’s all on the initial application now.
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