My non-Honors D18 had 2-3 advisors, major, minor and something else. She had no issues of access and the info they shared was useful.
The big benefit is South Quad. D18 lived in West Quad, so that was great.
And non-Honors can graduate with distinction, which is graduating with honors.
In addition to what @sushiritto said, students can also do honors work within their majors. So, for my student, she had several opportunities to have an honors designation: First, by being part of the honors college; second, by completing semesters with honors (GPA higher than 3.5 has “honors” on their transcript); third, by graduation with distinction, high distinction, and highest distinction (these GPAs are quite high these days, from about 3.85 to 3.9 to 3.95 or higher for each level); and fourth, by choosing to complete an additional honors project which was more singular and different from what the rest of her major did as a capstone project. To me, the honors college is different than the designations by GPA, though the differences are not terribly clear to those on the outside so it’s not something I would do because it looks good on a resume, for instance.
In determining whether or not to accept a spot in the honors college, I would absolutely make this an academic decision, not a housing decision. Although the honors housing in South Quad is a nice perk, it’s not so nice that I would choose the HC for that reason. This isn’t Alabama – either in terms of honors housing or in terms of non-honors peer groups. South Quad is older and no air conditioning. The rooms are nice-sized, but it isn’t even the nicest dorm on campus. Plenty of non-honors kids end up in South Quad anyway.
I would compare the honors college core to the regular LSA core and make sure that your student has the academic curiosity and desire to choose HC over standard. If your student wants the additional requirements, that’s great and it makes sense. If they don’t, that’s great, too, because they will have plenty of opportunities and options at Michigan without being part of the HC.
Good luck to all who are making HC decisions!
Fun discussion. My son also non honors in engineering and yes graduated with Honors distinction also.
He had his major, and two minors or one minor and certificate (can’t remember) S17 and had 3 advisors and all were great and got appointments really fast and all helped him plan out his years there. Some actually had useful connections also. Keep your advisors in the loop of what your doing.
I would rather be in West Quad also like my son first year. He had a very nice cush room for 3 with only 2 people. Nice ping pong room to boot and he met several football team players and some are Pros now (looking at you Donovan Peoples - Jones).
It’s also a great location for everything but South is great since the food is right there. Lol.
I do think being in honors is a great way to make a large university small quickly. Also your with like peers but to be honest. When the avg student has a 3.9 unweighted with 32-35 Act… The whole school could get into many universities honors programs. Also I think they have some special lectures and opportunites and possibly a cool honors handshake 
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I would Facebook etc people in honors and get their take.
Does anyone know if UMich has orientation events before the start of classes?
Has anyone heard back from LEAD Scholars? After applying in Feb, there has been radio silence 
My daughter has not heard back yet. She sent an email inquiring if they had made any decisions in late March for applicants who submitted for consideration during the first round. In their response they never addressed whether any scholarships were awarded in late March, only that they will be notifying recipients in mid-April. Hopefully we will hear soon.
Nothing except for the below response. Based on the community posts, 1st round has not been announced…may be this year it is onlt 1 round…in mid-April, which could be this weekend. 
I exchanged emails with the LEAD folks. Some decisions were sent out last week. Next (final?) round will be 4/26. They first told me “by” 4/26. They then clarified as “on” 4/26. Kinda late as compared to enrollment dates, but what can you do?
Thanks for the update, was about to write to them. All the stars are aligned to make decision making (esp. financial) hard this year. 
Yeah and I’d separately asked about them extending the enrollment deadline to 5/15 as so many other schools have done. They confirmed that it’s still 5/1, and, that for now there is no ongoing deliberation about whether to change that.
I found that surprising, BUT, if e.g. by say 4/22 they have 1/2 the usual number of enrollments, it wouldn’t surprise me if they do change the date. I guess we’ll see.
Now that the early review deadline for MLCs has passed, does anyone know if they will start rolling out those decisions this week, or will we have to wait until 4/17? DD is weighing Honors College at another school vs. possible MLC at UMich so she’s anxious to hear the results.
Also, any intel on how selective MCSP is? That was her first choice.
Thanks!
I have a question about housing at U-M. Son is accepted but is taking his time to decide. Can we start the housing process without committing to the school? At the other school he is considering, we paid a small housing deposit when applying, which secured his spot in the queue to choose first. When would the housing selection start at Michigan? If he commits right before May 1st, does that mean he is at the end of the line? He is not in the Honors. Appreciate any information you can share!
My son did send them an email, and this is the exact words from the automated response. Oddly, another person responded and their reply did not include the line about first round offers being made already.
We have made first round offers. We plan to make a final round of offers by mid-April so students will know if they are receiving the scholarship before the May 1st enrollment deadline.
It is very unlikely we will make offers after April 26th. To complete the process, we send anyone who we did not offer a scholarship?a final status update in early to mid-May.?
Have the same question about MLCs. My kid also applied and listed MCSP as first choice.
At the admitted student event they were clear that May 6 is the housing deadline and there is no advantage to submitting the housing application before that date. If you submit after that date no guarantee of housing.
Hopefully they reserve a few spots for waitlist admits.
Thanks so much!
We did hear back from LAE today - that is the only one my kid applied to. Seems like a good mix of CoE, Stamps and Music freshmen.
Also, we’ll be attending an admitted students event tomorrow in our local area (CA); let’s see how that goes.
Yes, my D got accepted to LAE.
Now, waiting to hear from LEAD.
Same situation. My son got accepted to LAE as well - waiting for LEAD.