Honors College Nonsense

miseryrevived
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:31:45 +0000

I totally share your pain rmldad. I received notification today that I was rejected from Honors but am being placed on the waiting list. I thought my stats were pretty good: 32 ACT, four AP classes last year, six this year, 4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.62 weighted. My extracurriculars aren’t amazing, but NHS, NSHS, cross country, Spanish Club and several others are not bad. I’ve gotten into honors at all of the other schools I’ve applied to, including OSU and Miami. I find it surprising that I got into Honors at OSU but not UK. I was thinking that my essays might have been what killed me, but I find it hard to believe that the applications were so competitive that it came down to who wrote a better essay, especially considering the subjective nature of deciding which essays are better than others. Incidentally, I go to a relatively small Catholic school here in Ohio.

I was also disappointed in their scholarships, as I only got the National Excellence Scholarship. Being out of state, $4500 a year is horribly low. I’m getting more from OSU. My family and I thought that UK was really generous with its scholarships based on a lot of the mail we received from them last year, so I thought that I had a terrific shot at the Singletary. I really wonder what their decisions behind scholarships and Honors are.

I think I’m officially crossing UK off my list now, which is a shame since I really liked it when I toured last year.