Transfer Admission
Plan II Honors will not offer transfer admission and will not accept transfer applications for the fall 2009, spring 2010 or fall 2010 semesters.
Unfortunately, over-enrollment issues have forced Plan II Honors to suspend transfer admissions for the last four semesters and onward. Plan II will not accept and will not consider transfer applications for the fall 2009, spring 2010 or fall 2010 semesters. There is a very strong chance that Plan II Honors will NOT reinstate transfer admissions.
If Plan II does reinstate transfer admission in the future, it's important for prospective transfer applicants to note that Plan II is, primarily a four-year freshman program. Therefore we do not review transfer application from students who will have completed 45 credit hours or more at the time they would begin Plan II if admitted.
The 45-hour maximum is because Plan II Honors has a core curriculum which is front-loaded. More Plan II requirements are scheduled in the the first two years of the program than the second two years. Additionally, the core curriculum requirements progress from year to year and course to course. We do not accept substitutes for our core courses. Therefore, Plan II is not a suitable program for someone with more than two or three semesters of college under the belt. Hence the 45-hour maximum. That maximum applies to classroom hours, not to hours earned through testing.
Disappointed transfer applicants might research the disciplinary honors tracks in the College of Liberal Arts departments. All of the disciplines in the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) offer an honors track. These tracks usually require additional courses, usually some kind of advanced junior or senior honors seminar(s) and a required thesis. These honors tracks are coordinated through the departments and are not stand-along programs or majors, as is Plan II Honors.
Another program you may want to investigate is the Junior Fellows projects. Junior fellows are involved in undergraduate, independent research projects. They meet to discuss research, present their projects, participate in field trips and attend presentations and lectures given by scholars on and off campus. Junior Fellows is open to all students on campus. Many of the Junior Fellows are Plan II students and students in the CoLA disciplinary honors programs.
