Literally 10 points from honors college! Help!

Zoidberg93
Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:59:44 +0000

From what I gather, the requirements for admission into the honors college at umass Amherst are:
GPA of “-A” or better
Class rank in top 10%
SAT of 1300 or more

My GPA is a 4.1. I’m within the top 2% of my class, let alone 10. BUT, my SAT score 1290 (CR: 670 M:620)…literally 10 points below the minimum. I retook the SAT last week, but I’m not sure if I went up. If I didn’t, will they still consider me for the Honors college? Should I write an email or something? Or are they really strict about the cutoffs? Do they have a computer like automatically decide to invite an accepted applicant to the honor college, based solely on numbers? Help!!