The portal says Honors comes out at 8pm EST tonight, but D24 portal was updated. (Did not get in to Elon Honors . . . was accepted to U of SC OOS Honors so . . . ??)
Omg!!! I got invite to Honors! So happy and surprised! 
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Admitted. 10k/year presidential scholarship and did not get invited to the honors weekend.
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And we are done.
Elon was the only school where D didnāt get any merit or honors. I had her decline the acceptance while she was in the portal.
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My daughter got the $10k presidential scholarship (in the admissions letter) but now tonight learned she was not invited to honors. Sheās a little disappointed since she really likes Elon. But sheāll still apply to fellows and see if she gets invited to that process.
I donāt understand their thinking but your daughter has some great options.
Whoa, that makes zero sense. Congrats tho, USC has a stellar Honors program.
South Carolina not USC right?
Just wanted to provide an update that my daughter also reached out to Elon about the honors and fellows prompts being similar and wondering if she would be allowed to use the same response/essay (since the response would still totally fit the prompt). She heard back and they told her to not use the same essay. They said the same topic would be fine, but a different essay. Good to know!
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Elon was overwhelmed with 15000 āearlyā applications (average 19000 ātotalā applications.) The class of 2027 consisted of 20% students of color and 10% 1st generation college students. It is apparent they are ābuildingā a diverse class once again for 2028. Further, Elon is heavily recruiting from the West Coast, Midwest and Texas. My sense is they are using available merit and honor offers to specific demographics as enticement to join the Elon community.
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Interesting, because we were full pay from Texas, and did not meet the target demo.
I am just going to say, that having two posters in 24 hours create accounts and make their first post (see the Parents of 2024 thread yesterday for the other) anecdotally defending Elon admissions, seems a lot like those accounts that have absolutely nothing to do with High Point University.
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I have been an avid- anonymous- CC reader for over 18 months, since my child began looking at colleges. I have found it incredibly helpful and it has given our family a lot of great ideas for colleges to investigate. I only created an account in order to make my first post yesterday as it was the first time I had something I felt worth contributing. Specifically, I felt the statement that Elon was actively denying high stats kids (be it admission or merit) to be- at least in our case- untrue. Thinking ahead to prospective juniors and sophomores reading this, I felt it important to provide at least one data point that did not support this theory. If I am next yearās parent reading this thread, I may have gotten worried and told my child not to submit a high score. I would not want other parents to assume Elon is blanketly denying āallā high stats students. Perhaps they are denying some- sure. In our particular case, however, the high score was not a detriment. Looking at my childās HS naviance scatterplot confirms this as well historically. Thatās all I wanted to say. To imply that this is a āfakeā account is frustrating and a disservice to younger high schoolers.
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I also wanted to add that we do our children a disservice by allowing them to believe they are entitled to anything over another kid - high stats or lower stats. For whatever reason, our kids may not fit the spot they need to fill. My D22 was waitlisted, deferred, accepted, given merit, given no merit, to various schools. We always just said they must have had another kid already slotted just like her in that spot and they didnāt need two of em! She ended up where she needed to be. My son didnāt get merit at Elon, but I certainly donāt begrudge Elon for that. He didnāt fit what they needed for that merit allotment. We will look at our spreadsheet with his other merit offers and do what works best for him and our family.
Good luck to all.
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I have been a reader of CC for about a year because of a child applying to colleges. CC is an informative community site to share thoughts and advice. I am also an Elon alum and simply wanted to share some insight from various sources including my last visit to campus. There was nothing fake about my post nor intended malice. My best wishes to you and your family in 2024!
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ETA: If first posts are going to be treated with suspicion, simply because they are first posts that offer a differing experience to oneās own, I think many new members will be reluctant to contribute. Iāve learned my lesson and will happily go back to being an unlogged-in passive reader.
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This place can be intimidating and it shouldnāt be!
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I am an Elon parent and encourage you to keep posting. I had two kids go through the college admission process and it is very frustrating and disappointing when your child is deferred or rejected or not given honors or the merit you think they deserve. There probably are a lot of random decisions made from a large pool of qualified applicants. That said, no student is really entitled to anything and colleges try to entice the students they think are most likely to attend. I wouldnāt be dissuaded from posting by anyone who took out their frustration on you.
Both of my kids ended up at different types of colleges that were a good fit for them. The 4 years go fast!
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I donāt think my kid is entitled to merit at here or anywhere. I was disappointed but was most surprised by the kids with who got deferred this year. Once again, as I said specifically upthread, this was my failure. Go check out the class of 2022 thread and make your own decision if thereās a pattern.
Elon absolutely should build their class with students that they want! It is what my D fell in love with!
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If your D loves Elon then why pull her app so early in the process? There will undoubtedly be merit downstream once kids decline the early offers. We are waiting to see how things shake out before we decline most of the offers that my D has, including her Elon merit.
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