<p>She hasn’t applied for any other schools’ honors colleges except FIU. They will notify her in March. All the other schools have an application process; Admission is not automatic (FIU has automatic admission for their highest scholarship recipients, but they also take applications). Since USF was her top choice among the state schools, she hadn’t applied to any other schools’ honors colleges because she didn’t intend to attend those schools. Judging by their websites, her GPA and SAT are adequate for all those schools. However, they all require an essay, a resume, and seem to have a holistic admissions process, rather than just considering numbers. Therefore, she didn’t feel like writing an essay if she wasn’t going to go. FIU’s essay happened to dovetail with an essay she had already written for school, and since we’re from Miami, she is hedging her bets in case for some reason, she decides to stay local. If she makes the Honors College, she’d be more likely to consider it.</p>
<p>At this point, she is considering USF, Florida Institute of Tech, Eckerd, Clemson, and SUNY Stony Brook and maybe FIU. Eckerd and FIT don’t have an honors program – they’re just tiny schools (She did, however, get scholarships to those schools and an invite to apply for a full scholarship with all kinds of fringe benefits at FIT). Clemson is very competitive (similar to UF), so I wouldn’t expect her to be in the Honors College there. Stony Brook also doesn’t notify until March.</p>
<p>Anyway, really don’t care at this point. I just thought it was weird to send an invitation(s) to an event for something she wasn’t qualified for. It would be like sending a man an invitation to a Junior League recruiting event or something. Obviously, it was a mistake.</p>