Do you think all of the invites to honors college have already gone out or is there hope for the test optional kids to still get considered?
You could petition to get in if you haven’t heard in six weeks. You would have to write an essay. She could still be evaluated for freshman year that way.
I’m disappointed for my son not to get the HC invite. His GPA/scores are definitely in the range. An acquaintance from our high school with very similar stats (but probably slightly better activities/leadership) got accepted a week later than my son but got his invite last week. 
My daughter is at MSU and in the HC, and honestly I had just assumed he would also get the invite and some $. I feel bad that we’ve always talked about it that way.
When did he accept the HC invite? My daughter received HC invite on 12/9 but accepted it over the weekend (12/11). She got the $1500 resident scholarship today but no Honors scholarship. Maybe we need to wait for a few days?
Hmmm, I’m not sure he did accept the honors invite - will have to check and report back!
Do you have to accept admission and the HC invite to get scholarship info? My daughter was waiting to hear back from one other school before deciding whether or not to accept MSU and the honors college.
You just have to accept the honors college invite, not the admissions. Accepting the honors college invite simply means that if you decide that MSU is where you want to go, then you will do honors. Does not bind you to the school.
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I’m not sure that is right in every case.
S22 has no accepted admission or HC invite and has received an HC scholarship notification this week.
Accepted (OOS)
No test scores and 4.1w/3.8uw
non resident scholarship & study abroad money
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Things MSU has done really well in my opinion:
Supply results in a timely manner
Send a very cool welcome package wrapped in a flag
Give scholarship information early
Bravo!
Some schools are making EA students wait until end of January to even hear a decision.
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I agree - my son has also spoken with his admissions counselor and reps from the Honors College and they’ve all been wonderful. MSU has definitely moved up his list based on how they’ve handled the whole process!
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Question: Why are getting an email about Activate MSU NetID and email account? D has not accepted the admission offer.
Receiving a NetID does not mean you have accepted the offer. It is given so she can apply for scholarships.
I’m glad that was your experience! My daughter waited 12 weeks for acceptance and was accepted a month ago but has yet to receive anything in the mail as far as flag/letter.
I think it maybe depends on who’s desk you land on. 
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Thanks. Does it have something to do with aid? We did file FAFSA.
Nope. All admitted students should receive it at some point.
My in state daughter was accepted a couple/few weeks ago to the Honors College. So far, only thing we’ve heard is $1,500 per year for living in Michigan. I started looking at their website again and got the feeling we missed some separate scholarship applications due Nov 1 (i’ll have to look back to see if for out of state or in state). Seems she qualifies for some merit, but not sure if they do a lot of in state merit. We shall see. Thanks for the info!
I just looked up and see that they may invite students to participate in scholarship competition if they applied for admissions by Nov 1… which I believe mine did. I had seen the Nov 1 date mentiond in my quick search last night and thought that was a scholarship application deadline. So maybe there’s still hope!
My son was accepted about a month ago. He was invited to honors, but has not accepted yet. He did receive $5000 in honors scholarship in addition to the $1500 Michigan resident. No flag, but today he received a personal note/card from the Dean of Engineering that really impressed him.
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Really odd thing happened the other day. After my son got his scholarship notice I ran their net cost calculator again and the numbers now said 2022-2023. The odd part was the tuition increase. I had read where it was only going to be 2% and it was closer to 9%. We are oos. I have seen bad numbers in those calculators before and at multiple schools so I am not confident that is correct, but it is highly concerning. That is $3000 more than we expected.