<p>@snapebotherer: it completely depends. 1360 SAT (CR/M) is the minimum requirement for the honors college so you meet that, but I don’t know how they determine rank if your school doesn’t rank so I’m not sure if you would get in (they might measure it based off your GPA…so if you have a 3.8 unweighted or higher I would say you have a good chance of being admitted to the HC). Take a look at this, it has the most up-to-date info regarding being selected to the HC. [Honors</a> College Admission](<a href=“http://www.honorscollege.msu.edu./admissions/index.html%5DHonors”>http://www.honorscollege.msu.edu./admissions/index.html)
In terms of when you might receive the acceptance, who knows…generally you will receive it within 4 weeks (if you don’t hear within 4-6 weeks, you can petition the honors college and submit an extra essay for consideration…see the above website for details)</p>
<p>@ViggyRam: Lyman Briggs College is a residential college. Similar to other residential colleges, in order to be in it you must list “Lyman briggs college” as your major on your initial application (or ask the office of admissions to change your major to “lyman briggs college.” A large majority of the students within Lyman Briggs college are pre-med, so it would be a huge network of students/faculty that you could work with - I would definitely say that that lyman briggs could be an advantage to you as a pre-med student. In terms of the residential college atmosphere, you live in Holmes hall with other 1st year Lyman briggs majors, you take Lyman briggs intro classes (which are held in your dorm) and also have all your Briggs professors offices within the building in which you live. They also hold a lot of special within-college programs/career/extracurricular opportunities. In terms of other details of Lyman briggs, I would ask someone else (there’s another recent CC thread with a lyman briggs major). </p>
<p>As for your other 2 options after Sny-Phi, there are quite a few other options. Case Hall has an honors floor, gilchrist has an honors floor, some dorms of brody have honors floors, holmes hall (lyman briggs) has an honors floor, among others that I’m unsure of right now. I’d say a good second choice (even if you don’t want to do lyman briggs) would be holmes hall, because you will be by a lot of other pre-med students in the area (they like to study, but can be really social as well). Third choice - it’s up to you. Gilchrist/west circle is too quiet for my tastes. Case hall has a good amount of freshmen/social but it’s pretty far away from a lot of pre-med type classes (close by a lot of athletic facilities though). Brody is even further away from stuff. </p>
<p>I don’t know how is the zoology major at MSU…sorry. I have a few friends that are in it that like it, but beyond that I have no idea.</p>