Honors College Nonsense

ckellen
Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:26:30 +0000

I was accepted to the Honors College. I have a 32 ACT and 3.9 GPA, but I’m fairly sure it was my essays and my unique and very time-consuming extra-curricular activities that got me in. Writing has always been my strongest point, and from what I gather it worked in my favor here. I went to several Honors recruiting events, and everyone I met told me that the essays are by far the most important part of the application. While in some cases this is disadvantageous to STEM-type students, from what I understand it’s to show that the applicant put forth a lot of effort into the application, and to allow the app readers to understand each student as more than a set of numbers.

I also received the Singletary Scholarship, and in my interview (as well as several other scholarship interviews) the interviewers remarked at how few liberal arts-type “top” students they get as applicants, so the fact that I’m a double English/French major may have gotten me in as well, since part of selecting a college class is creating diversity of skill and interest. So by sheer numbers, it is possibly more difficult for math and science-type students to get in, at least at UK.