Honors College - what does it take / chance me?

parentologist
Fri, 18 May 2018 04:59:32 +0000

My kid is in honors at UMass Amherst, with much lower stats than yours, but kid was very highly qualified for a small but very highly ranked department. Kid says there are kids with much better credentials who didn’t get honors, and many kids who don’t seem brilliant who are in honors. Plus some flunked out of honors after first year (mostly party animals).

It seems that the bar is set differently for different majors, so that it’s not all comp sci and business. So if you can tell them that you’re applying for a quirky major, that might help. In any event, I think you would get in with your current stats. Kid says it’s most definitely worth being there, for the nice new dorms, and the quieter campus. If you don’t get in, you can transfer in, assuming you do well, which you surely would.