My dawg says there were very few OOS students in her two honors classes this semester, certainly well under 20%. But since she cannot survey the other honors classes, she has no way of knowing if others had different breakdowns.
But given what I know of the honors college and its leadership, I strongly doubt in-state vs OOS is a significant factor in honors decisions, which are made after a student has already been accepted. Differences in in-state vs OOS likelihood of accepting an offer to attend is the much more likely explanation if Morehead Honors College is less than 20% OOS students.
Remember that OOS students who are accepted to the honors college are high stats kids who likely have other acceptances from competitive colleges and probably some hefty merit offers elsewhere too. Without a full waiver of UGAās OOS tuition differential ā or even with it ā the studentās own stateās public universities are likely to cost a LOT less than UGA.
For that reason, overall OOS yield (~17%) is much lower than in-state (55%). If we were able to look at yield for honors acceptances only, Iād expect OOS yield to be even lower.
With the caveat that she has only one semester of experience, no, her honors classes have not been more difficult. However, because they are smaller, you cannot hide/slack off like you can in big lecture classes.
As far as other aspects, she definitely appreciated earlier registration for second semester, but she wouldnāt have had too much trouble putting her schedule together without it either. (Her majors are in SPIA and non-STEM Franklin.)
Same, from NY. Iām thinking from the deferral letter that they did a blanket acceptance of higher stat students and will read more deeply into applications for RD.
I have a 2nd year OOS student in honors (SPIA major as well). she has taken 4 honors classes and they arenāt necessarily harder but you are very visible because they are small classes, so you canāt really miss class and you have to participate. I think there is more group work and more independent learning, too.
the honors college has a lot of other things going on as well- speaker events and social events and stuff like that. unfortunately I donāt think my daughter partakes too much because she is too busy with other things, but it seems great for the kid who wants it.
I want to make sure I understand housing. Now that we paid the $35 nothing else happens until after 5/1 and we will get an email with the housing timeslot? I know we would have to pay enrollment deposit by 5/1.
I am just trying clarify because a lot of other schools do housing in February/March so you need to have decided way before the 5/1 deadline.
Am I missing something? Last thing we want to do is screw up housing.
Along these same lines, when do orientation signups generally open?
Last year orientation sign ups opened on the first Sunday in May. The first few dates were full within 5 minutes.
The first regular housing selection appointments started in the first or second week of June and continued throughout summer. (Some freshmen have slightly earlier selection if they are required to live in a specific dorm as part of a program, but that applies to very few students.)
Donāt hold your breath. It can take literally months to arrive! But it isnāt UGAās fault. USPS in the metro Atlanta area is maybe not as effective as in some other places.
She did fill out the supplemental Honors app, so sheās pretty sure it wasnāt an auto-admit.
Quoting from the Honors College website:
"Early Action applicants who are not automatically accepted into Honors must fill out a supplemental Honors College application to be considered for Honors acceptance. All Regular Decision applicants are also required to fill out an Honors College application for consideration. This application opens September 1 and closes January 15.
Decisions on Honors applications will be rendered by April 1."
