Honors College notification?

sbuadmissions
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:37:43 +0000

@kuca - I take enormous umbrage with your comments. All I can do – and all I’ve ever done in this forum – is give out what information I have (and can give). I’m the only person on this board who is completely open and transparent as to who I am and what I do; there’s an enormous amount of anonymous stuff on College Confidential, and I’m doing my best to cut through the noise. I’m sorry if that’s not good enough for you.

Nobody here – again, except for me – is using a real name and real information. Anyone could make an account here and say “I have an 82 GPA and got a 19 on my ACT and I just got my Honors College admission letter” and people would go BANANAS. If you have questions about your specific application – only yours, not your friend who got admitted or your cousin or your brother who applied three years ago – then email us, and you’ll get a much more tailored answer because we’ll be able to address your specific situation, more or less.

Yes, sometimes the information I give here is partial, because things are honestly always changing. If I said something on this board, then it’s true to the best of my knowledge and on what I have the ability to say at that time. We were told in a meeting on February 27 – I still have the notes – that the Honors College should have their decisions to us “by the end of this week,” which means by the time we get them into our system and the letters go out, students who were offered admission to HC would have it by the end of the following week.

The problem we have had this past week or two is that we were waiting on final Scholars decisions, which we just got this morning… and we don’t send out HC/WISE “denies” (which aren’t really “denies,” but you know what I mean) until we have all the Scholars decisions on, because some people apply to all three programs and it would be silly to send a “you didn’t get into HC” letter and a “you didn’t get into WISE” letter AND a “congratulations and welcome to Scholars” letter at separate times. In an ideal world, all of this would happen at the same time, but there are a lot of moving pieces here and that’s not always possible. We get decisions out as efficiently as we can in an effort to ensure that we’re building our freshman class to the university’s capabilities. Sorry if CC isn’t perfect, and sometimes things change and I don’t spend every waking moment here responding to every question. I check in once in the morning and that’s it.

ALL THAT SAID – in all honesty, if you haven’t received an Honors College or WISE “yes” in the mail or on SOLAR by this point, it’s highly unlikely that we were able to offer you admission to those programs. University Scholars should be on its way soon.

And Scholars is an AMAZING program and if you’re in Scholars, you might have me as a freshman seminar instructor and that would be a serious good time.

Chris