It sucks!
Congrats! How were they notified of interview - email or a phone call?
All kids in our high school waiting for engineering honors got rejected today including my son. All very high achieving kids. It does feel like a gut shot.
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Congratulations! How were you notified of interview for CBHP - was it an email or a phone call?
Curious how your DD learned about business honors interview - did UT email her or call her to arrange?
RE: UT Engineering Honors and numerous rejections being reported right nowā¦ (Iāve read about one acceptance. One.) Itās an honors program. I can understand not giving everybody in an honors program a scholarshipā¦but to outright reject them from membership, person after person? That makes no sense. What is it Engineering Honors is looking for? One of the ārejectsā is a 36 (x4) kid with all the fixings. My kid has a 35 (sorry he isnāt āperfectā ???). What is the point of an Honors program that you canāt get in? Iām pretty flabbergasted and frankly insulted for all of our hard working kids. Againā¦I didnāt expect a guaranteed scholarshipā¦but I did expect he would get in to the program. The kicker will be if he applies and gets in next yearā¦at the point where they do not qualify for scholarships. Sigh.
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Consider Jester East or Jester West.
Surely some applicants were offered, right?
I have the same thoughts here. My son has 1570 SAT (with perfect math score), top grades and rigor and published research. Iām not sure who they are selecting for engineering honors this year? I wonder if they are trying to do something new with the program and selecting much less students that they normally did? I wish the University was more transparent with things. I canāt think what else we couldāve done in order to get in to honors.
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So far Iāve read of one. The point is that this is an Honors program. The types of kids who are accepted to engineering are typically high stats kids. Honors programs typically have minimum criteria. Is that a 36 ACT or 1600 SAT? Thatās a little too tight, if so.
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I feel the same. Published kid, has an Electrical Engineering internship, for goodnessā sake. Is a competitive accomplished fencer, volunteer coding mentor and is a certified fencing refereeā¦VP Science Olympiadā¦on and on. Even All-Texas Academic Team (one of two people nominated Austin Community College wide). Honors at UT must mean something else we are unaware of.
The one kid who got in, did they say their stats? I would be curious.
My Honors tab disappeared after I got my acceptance. Does that mean Iāve been rejected from the honors programs I applied to?
Did (m)any of the kids denied Engineering honors getting into MIT early action? I know someone who got aero honors at GaTech and Notre Dame but deferred to MIT.
Itās nuts to even get admitted to UT Cockrell.
My 36 ACT son didnāt get engineering honors. Itās basically just a merit scholarship not a special program.
Have asked. Awaiting.
Itās by email.
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email from the interviewer.
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I have a theory but it might be just wishful thinking. Iāve only heard of an extreme select few people get in, all of whom seem to be ECE majors. ECE has itās own specific honors programs: ECE Honors and ECE + Business Honors, both of which are different from Engineering Honors Program (at least thatās what the honors website implies). My hope is that MyStatus isnāt reflecting EHP and instead they mail invitations out physically like the website says. Otherwise, holy cow they were brutal. As a December BME admit I thought I would have a good shot.
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