Update on portal just now says they’ve delayed decisions on Honors Program finalists until January 3.
I think honors comes out today for those who applied and submitted essay by 12/1. Fellows is later and the weekend event is first weekend of March. I think that’s where they give out a few full rides.
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@bsmom2004 My friend’s son was deferred with even higher stats and they were shocked. Elon was not at all first choice so they are going to let it go. This is clearly yield management. I would imagine that if you showed continued interest your DC will get in in a heart beat. They likely dont want to give an acceptance to kids who are not likely to attend.
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D said she saw on the Zeemee that Honors notifications may have been delayed until January 3. 
Edit to add did anyone else get the email about the portal update this morning?
Kiddo accepted with $10k per year in merit and strong nudge to apply to Fellows. Elon is her one small, private school acceptance. All others are large rah, rah SEC/ACC schools. We will see what she ultimately decides she wants in a school.
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Daughter accepted with merit scholarship. she was really thrilled!
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Can I ask her stats?
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Congrats! Can I ask his stats? Seeing several with no merit despite high stats which is unexpected.
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If, and this is a big if, certain kids weren’t offered merit because they were intended to get an invite to honors, then this is just terrible expectation management. (I don’t actually think this is what is happening, by the way, if you look at the stats on the honors program.).
Why would you schedule honors then to come out the day after decisions to kids you just disappointed? If you intended to release the day after, why not include it with decisions, especially for the kids that are getting invites? If you’re going to defer some high stats kids because of yield management what do you possibly gain from admitting other higher stats kids and then offering no merit?
I’m not building a class, but it doesn’t make sense to me, and on the literally one in a million chance D does get an honors invite, I mean, she”s already internalized moving on and bumping other schools up the admitted students list, especially with the delay. We’ve discussed adding schools to RD, which wasn’t on the table before yesterday.
Elon is a great school and congrats to all of you that got scholarships. I just feel like this was my failure because I sent this school to D because I thought it would be a great fit and she fell in love. We carefully curated a list to get merit into our budget and I just misjudged this one badly for us.
I’m so sorry this happened to your D @laceltris I don’t understand how they award merit.
From the update today, this year they received twice as many Honors applications (1,650), they need extra time to evaluate every applicant. So they can’t finalize their honors invites today. An invite doesn’t mean you will ultimately get accepted to Honors. I think the candidates still need to go through interviews and then be selected to be in the Honors program.
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So did everyone get an email about Honors being delayed? Because we did not?
Yes we got an email to check the portal. There was a link for the new update. But once you clicked the link and read it, the update link is gone.
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For anyone who has paid the deposit, you are welcome to join our 2028 Elon Parent Facebook group. Make sure it is listed as Elon University Parents of the class of 2028 run by parents. There are a few others but they are run by people trying to sell merch. And make sure to answer all the questions completely to be admitted to the group.
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Question about the various scholarship applications. There was a prompt for the honors application (about passion/interests) that my daughter already submitted. And now there is a very similar prompt for the fellows program. I assume she would not submit the same essay? But maybe they are evaluated by different selection committees so it wouldn’t matter? Anyone have any insight? Thanks!
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Mine reached out and asked the same thing. She hasn’t heard back. I mean, that is her main passion and it feeds into why she’d be a good candidate for fellows (passions are research about why humans act the way they do), so I am not sure if any other topic would even be good. Her honors essay connects the interest starting out as something outside of school and how she used school classes to further her learning. She has rewritten the essay, using some similar paragraphs. I’ll let you know if/when they respond and what they say.
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Similar.
D24
4.0 UW
Almost entirely honors/AP
1550, 670V/790M
Intended math major
Established & leads a peer tutoring program
Deferred. Elon was top 3 (toured in Fall).
She was stunned and painfully deflated.
I feel your pain. It was top 2 for my daughter. She was even hitting it off with a potential roommate she met on social media.
The weirdest thing about it is that they just seem to actively not want kids with stats higher than their average. Yield management and deferring high stats kids makes absolutely no sense for a school that admits 67% of applicants. I mean, what exactly are they managing to by doing this when they only yield 13% of acceptances anyway?
D24 was accepted, but no scholarship, and has decided it’s not even worth it to apply to Fellows, because it won’t make our budget now. It seems like having a couple hundred SAT points over their average is the kiss of death from Elon.
Who knew applying with a high test score could be a negative?!?!?
Son accepted but sadly no merit, only school without merit so far. Do Honors program decisions come out today?
33ACT
4.1 GPA
7 honors/AP
Varsity athlete/Honor society/Community service
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