Sounds like she loves Clemson. Congrats. My daughter did the entire UGA and Honors thing but then felt similarly. Beautiful but too large.
Congrats on her future at Clemson.
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Thank you!! Where is your daughter leaning towards?
My DD was admitted EA OOS. She is planning to apply to the honors college but her test scores are below the median (ACT 31). Her grades and rigor are high.
I suppose it canât hurt to apply, but I am wondering if there is a test score cut off. The website says only that the median ACT is 34.
I doubt there is a hard cutoff for Honors- Iâm sure they look at it much more holistically than they would be able to do for regular admissions. the 31 is prob going to make it hard to get in but if other things really stand out I donât think itâs absolute.
Shes a Junior. At Charleston. She chose over UGA Honors, FSU (not Honors) and U of SC Honors.
She loved UGA. They had an urban outfitters but when she had to narrow from 15 it was an easy cut. She realized, for her, she wanted more compact.
U of SC was #2. Much smaller. But Charleston vibed with her better and sheâs in a special sub Honors program which has been as advertised.
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Apologies if i missed this in the thread. Our daughter OOS was admitted to UGA. When do Honors college decisions get released?
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if she wasnât auto-admitted to honors with her EA acceptance, she has to do a separate Honors application now. itâs pretty easy to do but itâs due on Jan 15.
those decisions wonât be released for a while though- the website says by April 1. I remember when my daughter got her acceptance she was agonizing over a few choices and the Honors acceptance probably made the difference- although it is very possible she would have chosen UGA even without it.
IMO it would help UGAâs yield numbers to get those Honors decisions out earlier, before some hopefuls have emotionally committed to other schoolsâŠ
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Thanks for the reply. So, in her case, she already completed the application for Honors and CURO research around the same time she applied EA. She didnt realize she could be auto admitted to Honors, but now Iâm wondering if maybe she wont get Honors as she already applied to it, but wasnt notified with her admission decision. Need to look up the stats for Morehead.
I didnât realize the honors application would even be open that early- you might want to check and make sure that she didnât use last yearâs application.
regardless- I donât think it matters. if she wasnât auto-accepted into Honors I doubt they looked at her Honors application yet. she still has a chance- but yes, the stats are relevant.
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My son was accepted into honors at the same time of his EA decision. We are OOS and son filled out honors application and supplementals well before the decision date. He wanted honors if he were to attend UGA and we were both going with the idea of getting any possible supplementals done and over with. He is so happy he likely doesnât have to write another Why us or the like again.
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ok, I stand corrected. I guess the honors application is open at the time of EA (at least this year). either way I donât think it means you canât get in later (and I still think itâs very possible they didnât even look at the Honors application for auto-admits). think of it like a deferral- they might just want more data points. For my daughter I think what caused her to NOT be auto-admitted was having only 3 AP grades (from junior year). by winter she now had 6 AP grades and I think Morehead wanted to see that (and accepted her).
Purely anecdotal, but a few years ago when D21 applied and we looked at our schoolâs auto-admits to Honors it appeared to heavily weigh test scores. For example, only kids with 1570 or higher were auto-admitted. My Dâs bestie was one of those; her GPA was lower than my D but her SAT was higher. Most of the kids with high GPA/tests who completed the Honors application were admitted in March and many with merit.
There are very few auto-admitted so please donât be discouraged or read into that. Also remember that the decision-makers for admissions, Morehead Honors, Foundation Fellows are working independently and each have their own criteria.
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Yes, same here. So thinking she should look up her admissions person and ask the question. If she wonât be admitted to Honors, I suspect she will go elsewhere as itâs a very big school and she likes the idea of an Honors cohort with strong advising and research opportunities.
BTW, I agree with you on the lateness of the Honors decisions. If they donât admit her to Honors until 4/1, she likely will have decided to go elsewhere by then (or be close to deciding). Given the date to complete the application is Jan 15th, not sure why it takes so long to communicate to Honors College enrollees.
I just checked the stats for the 2023/2024 Honors College admits, and she is well within (at the top end) of their 50th percentile, but with college admissions, nothing is a sure thing.
In an Honors College on campus presentation earlier this year, they said about 1/3 of Honors admits come with EA acceptance, 1/3 come in late March (to EA and RD admits), and the final 1/3 are to Freshman who apply by the Fall deadline. Ultimately about 10% of Freshman class will be offered HC admission.
It is a holistic admission, but I agree with the anecdotal observation that only extremely high stat students are accepted in the first wave.
I have a friend who is a reader for the HC applications, and they wonât start reviewing until shortly after the 1/15 application deadline.
I was an Honors student 30 years ago, and I have 2 nephews who were/are as well (one still in the program). Its strength has only increased over time. The President used to be in charge of Honors (itâs now named after him), and he has a passion for making sure that it continues to offer exceptional opportunities. Imo, itâs definitely worth strong consideration.
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She emailed admissions who then sent her inquiry on to Honors College directly. She is pretty high stats and is coming from a highly rejective STEM magnet high school in NJ with an interesting resume so if not there, she has interesting offers elsewhere so all good.
Re: Honors College app. My in-state son got accepted EA & now filling out HC App. Question: Do they also look at his regular common App essays and ECâs? The HC App is somewhat weird in that itâs also asking for his ECâs (which should already be on his Common App?). Also, one of the essay prompts is almost the exact topic of his Common App main essayâŠI presume the HC readers will have access to his original essays, and he should submit something entirely different?
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Re: honors admits
Yes, anyone with high stats kids that did not get auto admit for honors college ea do not be discouraged. We were when my son did not get it as his sibling did a couple of years ago (and son has slightly higher stats and more impressive extra-currics).
But then he just got notified that he is a foundation fellowship finalist! So not getting auto-admit is no indication in my opinion of your overall standing and chance to get merit money. Must be some type of algorithm that misses some high stat kids for auto honors EA (our school offers very few AP classes so recalculated uga gpa that weighs APs heavily could explain it).
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So, my daughter asked Admissions a question about Honors and they simply forwarded it to the Honors College staff to respond. And they sent her somewhere else entirely for CURO scholarship questions. So, my impression is they operate separately and thats why they ask for the same info twice, but practically, my daughter wrote different essays for EA and HC. Best to askâŠthey responded quickly yesterday.
Thanks for the info. Her school offers zero AP classes but the students attend CC for Dual enrollment senior year, so maybe that impacts their alogorithm? No idea but I am hopeful for HC as i doubt she will attend otherwise.
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