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How important is being in an Honors Program as an undergrad?

How can I get admission to the University of Maryland Honors/Scholars Program?

  • I am a junior in New York, and will be applying to college this fall, University of Maryland, CP being one of these schools.  What are my chances of being admitted to their honors/scholars program? My intended major is Physics (hopefully theoretical particle physics and QMech), by the way. Freshman year: (did not try extremely hard) Bio: B+ Geometry: A- Honors English: A Honors World History: B+ Italian: A+ Sophomore Year: (started to try a little harder) Chem Honors: A+ Algebra 2/Trig: A- Honors English: A+ World History 2: A Italian: A+ Computer Programming: A+ Junior Year: (Really started to focus) Physics: A Precalculus Honors: A+ (100 average) AP Language&Comp: A APUSH: A+ Italian: A+ Science Research**: A+ (105 avg) Next Year I will take: AP Calculus AB AP Statistics AP Macroeconomics AP Government AP Physics B Intro to Philosophy English 12 Also Plan to learn most of Calc BC curriculum and take the Calc BC and Computer Science AP exams. Overall GPA: 93.8 (projected to be a bit higher upon graduation) SAT: 700 M             M&CR should improve when I retake SAT         640 CR         730 W     2070 / 1340 (hopefully 2150 / 1400) SATii: expect Math2 and Physics to be mid 700's EC: NHS, Math Honor Society (next year), Math Club, Junior Statesmen of America, will be founder of a club at school, Film Club, Varsity Tennis/ Track. I am also on our school's authentic science research track, where I am performing engineering research at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center, and I am expected to place highly in our local science fair of 250 students (my category has about 15 participants). Sorry for boring anybody that I may have bored.  Additionally would anyone be able to tell me of my chances at a few other schools: Johns Hopkins UMich Stony Brook UCLA UC Berkeley BU UIUC UChicago UPenn Brown Cornell Columbia Binghamton Thanks!!!

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    you'll be in honors, there are gpa/sat cutoffs for honors/scholars admission and you'll meet them with your scores

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If you don't get accepted to Honors, then you'll most likely be put in Scholars. I had pretty average grades in high school, but went to a prestigious private school so I was accepted to Scholars (they take the top 10% of applicants, I think Honors is top 5%). In my opinion Scholars is a better program - it sounds the same if not better than Honors even though it's a less rigorous program, the advisors are great, the workload isn't insane, and you get more of the "traditional" college experience - Honors students live in tiny rooms in the middle of campus where none of the rest of the freshman class (or anybody else for that matter) live. Scholars has its own living community on North Campus next to the rest of the freshman dorms, and has a central building right in the middle of the community (also attached to a convenience store) where consortium classes are located for convenience.

Ashley Brown

I was in the scholars program back in 2005. One of my peers had family in admissions, and was told that the main difference between scholars and honors students was how you answered the "where is your niche" question in the application. The honors program is more like a small liberal arts college inside of the huge UMD campus, you can look https://ntst.umd.edu/soc/201501/HONR for classes specifically given to Honor's students that satisfy general education requirements but are usually a lot easier, less formal, and more interesting than those offered in the mainstream program. I took a few of them. (Non honors students like myself, get to be waitlisted until the first day of classes). I don't think I answered your question, but your transcript looks solid, you should have your choice of programs to be a part of.

Sarab Jeet Singh

With your grades/scores, you should be aiming higher than UMD.  It's a great school for academics for sure but there are other schools where you'll get a better experience.  So, the answer is just to make sure to apply by the deadline and don't worry about it.

Joshua Spokes

Fill out and submit the application during the timeframe specified..  http://honors.umd.edu/prospective-current.php

Jim Scoggins

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