Why I Want To Be An Honors College Student

Broad perspective is critical. Without it, opportunities and possibilities are greatly limited. The Honors College is not simply a place to gain perspective, but also a place to provide perspective to others. Interdisciplinary academics, leadership development, undergraduate research, and community & global experiences are the tenets of the Honors College. My experiences are closely aligned to these views; therefore, I feel I can contribute my own

Dear to whom it may concern, I would love to be in Honors English 2 (10th) and Honors World History (10th) as they are my two favorite subjects and I am the most passionate about them. I am currently in Humanities Academy as a freshman and my goal is to keep up the challenging classes because not only do I love to be challenged, but these subjects make me excited to learn. School comes very easy to me and I love to learn so much, so I know I can handle the tasks thrown my way during these courses. My personal goals I wish to achieve are to keep improving my strengths and making sure I am learning to my fullest abilities. Ever since I was a little girl, I have always said I want to be a famous author when I grow up. Now as I am getting older,

I enjoy community involvement and believe that everybody should lend a hand in their community. I have many volunteer experiences within my community, both through clubs and on my own accord. I plan to become a role model for my peers in community involvement, encouraging others to join in, by actively participating in volunteer work. Furthermore, I expect to enrich the Honors Program own community involvement by researching and discussing new opportunities for students to reach out to their community. As a result, I will encourage others to help out in making our community a better place, and subsequently gain a broader perspective through our involvement. Therefore, I plan to impact the Honors Program and community through my consistent involvement in volunteer

I will engage in research, acquire hands-on experience, and apply what I learned in class in real life scenarios to make an impact on people’s lives. I will partake in service opportunities like my current roles in NHS and FNHS. My personality will benefit those around me. Honors College will place me in courses with exceptional students who are dedicated and focused. They will push my performance as a student. Even now, classmates gauge their performance with mine and vice versa. As a result, they motivate me to catch up or stay ahead of the competition. Competition is the catalyst for improvement. Likewise, I always encourage my peers to do their best, for I want to see individuals succeed. Moreover, there is no point enrolling in classes that won’t challenge me; where I am perched at the top. There is no intellectual growth there. Whereas, challenging courses and talented students help establish high goals for me. This symbiotic relationship between my peers and I will springboard us to greater

I am interested in the Morrissy Honors Program because I am seeking to join a community that values the pursuit of academic excellence and takes the call to global citizenship seriously. From a young age I have enjoyed both learning and applying my knowledge to help others, and I will carry on these values into my role as a Morrissy Honor scholar.

Many of my peers are frightened by the idea of an Honors College because they view it only with the mindset that it is exclusively for students who are overachieving and incredibly intelligent. To me, I see it simply as an opportunity for those who love to learn to make the best of their education. The University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College will open doors to limitless opportunities that will cultivate my college education immensely. As a part of the honors student community at my high school, I felt only that I was a part of a family that was growing and learning together through the struggle of a rigorous education. We stayed up late at night together, and remained after school for hours on end purely for our crave of knowledge

With any honors program, being surrounded by driven students provides a culture of learning and exploration. However, students can often feel intimidated by their peers and not take risks because they are scared to fail. I will

During the NJIT open house, I had the opportunity to visit The Honors College, and my first impression of the program left me in awe, I could feel the environment supporting a strong education through a non-enforcive way. From that moment, I envisioned myself participating in the Honors College: taking on the rigorous academic course and being able to do research early in my college career. My academic background matched many of the Honors College students’ backgrounds, such as partaking in a variety of rigid classes. In fact, a few of them are from my current high school, Mcnair Academic, which is a magnet-school with a tough academic standard that requires a college level of commitment from the students. From an academic perspective, the

Being a part of a closely knit group of like-minded students under the guidance of advisors, academic mentors and business executives, is a stepping stone in building my character and professionalism. Professionalism, intellect and ethics are what I need to improve upon going forward as a business student, and the Honors program has mentors who are willing to enlighten this attributes in me. I am often driven by challenges and I know that the challenge of the Honors Program and the engaging opportunities such as internships and retreats with corporate executives, are all align with the goals I have set out for myself and my plan to achieve them. The opportunuity to learn from current business leaders and see the works of the global business world at this stage, doesn’t come often and the Executive Leadership Honors Program provides this opportunity for intellectual and dedicated

For the past four years at Vernon Hills High School, I have been engaged in various clubs and sports. Some of the clubs that I have been part of are FBLA, Interact Club, First Class, FMPA, String Projects, National Honors Society, and SPARK. Out of these extracurricular activities, I have been on executive board for the volunteering club, Interact, for two years. In this position I have been able to coordinate various volunteering opportunities such as organizing events to attend Feed My Starving Children, Bernie’s Book Bank, and more. From this club, I have been able to help students connect with their community and connect with their peers. Another leadership position that I have been involved in is First Class. In this club, students lead

The term “Honors Student” is just a title to some people, but to me it’s much more than just that. Personally, I have strived to be an honors student during high school and want to continue to do the same in college. I would love to join the Honors program due to the opportunities it is offering. At Rowan University, I hope to share my views and ideas with other students and professors. In smaller and enriched classes, with open discussion, I’ll be able to share my opinions, get feedback, and get to know others within the class. I believe the most important aspect of being in the honors program is being surrounded by people like minded. I would greatly enjoy spending my time with others who understand the importance of academics yet are socially

I believe I am a good candidate to be an Honors scholar because I have the motivation to immerse myself towards my goal of a more integrated and open society. While college itself will enable me to explore theoretical methods of fulfilling my intentions, Honors College will be the platform I use to expose myself to the practical work of fulfilling my

Throughout my time as a student I have been very engaged in my community through student government, and attending college run events. All of the work I have done is because I believe that when people organize they are able to create successful projects that benefit the community. I believe negative aspects of our society are workable in our own communities and that everyone plays a part. When we change our day to day activities it can contribute to changing and shaping our communities. I have found routes to do this in my own life. At Linn-Benton Community College I served as the Benton Center coordinator and as a Judiciary Board member on student government. I played a role in policy decisions that affected our students directly. As an OSU/LBCC

I pride myself most on my achievements in scholarship; I arrived as a freshman at Mitchell thinking I was always going to be subpar in school, but I took my first AP class anyhow. AP Human geography completely changed the way I looked at myself and how I learned in school, I was finally understanding curriculum and I was scoring high on tests and, as sad as it may be, I was doing better in that class than my honors classes. So I made the decision to take more…and more…and then more; needless to say I've currently taken 12 AP classes and I'm preforming better in school than ever. I have received the title of AP Scholar with distinction after earning all 4’s and 5’s on my end of the year tests, I managed to bump my GPA up from about a 3.5 to

After I started at Mystic I got involved with 2 different organizations at my high school that had a huge focus in volunteering and giving back to the immediate community that we were raised in. The first club is a student run volunteer organization called Vision that focused on work in our immediate and surrounding communities. The second organization I received membership into was the Mark Twain Chapter of the National Honors Society. This society was composed of an elite group of students that had high regards for character, service, and education. In order to apply one had to have a GPA of a 3.5 or higher and once you were able to apply you must have 30 recorded hours of community service and then an essay explaining yourself in terms of character, service, and education. Once welcomed into the society, we did volunteer work for the community and other events to help other students improve their abilities in a variety of school topics. The volunteer work from both clubs included helping and participating at our annual blood drive, relay for life, food drives, Christmas present drives, helping elderly care for their lawns, and cleaning up our town’s schools’ grounds. Each project involved a group effort from everyone involved and we ended up making a huge difference for our community. I still continue to help out in my community by doing beach clean ups and food drives.