No Honors admission, bummer

flemmyd
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:11:03 +0000

there is a practice known as [Tufts Syndrome](Urban Dictionary: tufts syndrome). If they think you’re going to MIT or somewhere else super awesome, why would they offer you admission knowing you won’t go to UCI and only bring down their statistics?

Although I don’t think UCI or CHP practice Tuft’s Syndrome. It could be that there was just a set number of CHP spots and you didn’t make the cut (budgets are being cut everywhere). Your numbers are good, but don’t scream great to me. UCI will claim they admit holistically, but the sheer number of students coming in each year means they have to weigh numbers far more than they’ll admit.

Honestly, the only benefit I see to CHP is priority enrollment. Humcore and Soc core are both open to general enrollment, if you REALLY want to take those classes (although I believe CHP kids get their own disc section of Hum Core). And you can do a departmental honor/thesis regardless of CHP.
And I’m a commuter, so I haven’t dealt with any housing problems, but I’ve never heard of people having issues finding housing.

OP: Are you reallying considering coming to uci? If you are, honors is probably going to be a small part of that anyway.