I have a friend whose kid was invited to honors college in March last year, after being accepted EA. I think this is pretty common.
I’ve also heard speculation that major affects honors selection; the idea that they want a distribution across majors, so if you apply to a more popular major the threshold for honors admission might be higher. This would explain my own kid and a close friend from the same HS who had near-identical stats (including both being TO); they got the same merit award, but one of them got honors college and the other didn’t, and the one who didn’t had a much more common major.
Anyway, hope the March honors invites are plentiful—good luck!
It looks like there is another wave of Honors College acceptances. My daughter received an email today letting her know she had been accepted to the Honors College “after careful review of your application”. Seemed weird but she was happy about it. Fingers crossed for you as well! (ETA - she was accepted EA with Presidential Scholarship - but not Honors College invitation.)
I would also not worry too much about honors college at UVM, it’s not such a huge school that it really matters all that much. Yes, the dorms are nice but I have heard of plenty of kids who left honors after their first year because the additional requirements seemed not worth it for what you get. My ds did LASP, which was really great if you have a liberal arts type kid. You can’t do both LASP and honors, but some kids do switch to honors after their year in LASP.
Thanks, good advice. I think if my son chooses UVM, he will accept his Honors College invite. At least for the first year or second, it seems to offer a few perks, such as good housing and registration help. If he doesn’t continue through to the senior thesis, that’s ok. Whatever suits his academic plan is good with me.