It's only February, surely there are more decisions, and financial aid info, coming down the pipe in RD?

Why are you posting about this now? The game is still on.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she fully understands what this means.

I don’t think YOU fully understands what this means, OP. Plenty of “academic” students aren’t in HCs at state flagships and are still successful. It’s not that deep.

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This actually made me laugh. What a ridiculous thing to get worked up about. OP, is this your first child to go to college? Because Honors colleges are truly no big deal. There are tons of academic students all over universities, not only in classes but in clubs, organizations, and dorms. I can't imagine caring one iota about this.

If she's chasing merit, why did she apply to T10's? I don't think there are any schools in the T10 who give merit?

Where else does she have good merit at?

Is it possible to get into two 10 ten before RD? Or do you mean top 10 public?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she fully understands what this means.

I don’t think YOU fully understands what this means, OP. Plenty of “academic” students aren’t in HCs at state flagships and are still successful. It’s not that deep.

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I was technically in the Honors College at my flagship and never did anything with it--my first day I went to my honors class and there were two girls from my high school in there so I dropped it as soon as I got back to my dorm. After high school I wanted to be normal. I still get asked for donations.

DS opted not to do it because the extra work and expense wasn't worth it and he's doing just fine--has a super competitive internship lined up and professors sending his resume to their contacts and he's getting calls.

“ She has been accepted to two top 10 schools as well a handful of other schools.”

I don’t see what the issue is? Two top 10. Many kids dream of this. I don’t understand how before RD you can have two top 10 acceptances since these are privates.

Or do honors for your major?

Have your DD email admission officer and ask whether her honor college application can ve reconsidered.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think she fully understands what this means.

I don’t think YOU fully understands what this means, OP. Plenty of “academic” students aren’t in HCs at state flagships and are still successful. It’s not that deep.

Adding: The honors dorm was just tooooo geeky socially. And my kids is geeky 🤓

Mixing in a gen pop dorm and social life was preferred.

OP again. She has a high, but not super high, SAT score which I’m guessing is why she hasn’t received as much merit aid.

Besides that she is a quirky applicant and colleges seem to like her.

Anonymous wrote:Both my kids were in honors colleges in university. It gave them a perk of early registration and access to some accelerated classes. I don’t think it factored much at all on the resume or landing internships, jobs etc. GPA is what matters. Your DD should be fine whether in honors college or not.

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Early reg is nice. One of my kids stayed I. The honors college. But the other actually left it bc it added some requirements that were going to prevent a late-add second major.

Also she could apply to join the honors college sophomore year if desired.

Both my kids were in honors colleges in university. It gave them a perk of early registration and access to some accelerated classes. I don’t think it factored much at all on the resume or landing internships, jobs etc. GPA is what matters. Your DD should be fine whether in honors college or not.

DD is a strong student. She has been accepted to two top 10 schools as well a handful of other schools.

However, she is chasing merit aid and hasn’t received enough aid anywhere to bring tuition costs down anywhere near our state flagship. Because of this she will likely be attending our state flagship.

The problem is that she was not accepted to the honors college at our state flagship. It is the only honors college that rejected her. I’m not sure why she was rejected.

I am having a difficult time dealing with this. DD is very “academic” and really enjoys being around other serious students. I am so sad for her but I’m trying not to let it show.

She says she doesn’t care, but I don’t think she fully understands what this means.