The application process for fall 2022 is closed.

Commencement-year students can apply to Honors near the finish of their first term or first year. Read more on this process HERE

Having problem logging in or uploading your essays? You MUST create AND authenticate a U-M Friend business relationship (which is Non your Enrollment Connect account) in order to apply. Curl down to "Troubleshooting" at the bottom of this page for data on creating a Friend account and for hallmark instructions. For Honors Awarding dates/deadlines, link HERE.

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The awarding process for autumn 2022 for incoming starting time-year students is closed.

Please annotation that you must be admitted to LSA as an incoming outset-year educatee in order to access the application. Please know that unless y'all have already paid your enrollment deposit, you must create AND fully authenticate a U-M "friend" account in social club to apply to Honors. Curlicue down for authentication instructions.

Grades and test scores are a small function of what goes into our admissions controlling. That's why we require all students who employ to the program to write additional essays as part of their application to Honors.

Don't arroyo these questions every bit you lot would traditional application essay prompts. We want to know how you lot recall, how your mind works—and so testify united states! Think exterior the box or inside of it, simply don't get caught in the trap of trying to write the "right" answer, because there isn't ane.

The 2022 LSA Honors Essay Questions

To apply to Honors, you volition need to complete two essays. Every applicant must answer the first essay prompt (Essay A). For the 2nd essay (Essay B), please respond to one of the second group of choices. If you are using outside sources, you MUST cite them. Whatever citation fashion is adequate—just exist consistent. NOTE: Citations are non included in the essay discussion limit.

You MUST include both essays in ONE single document in order to successfully upload your application. Multiple documents/submissions are Not accustomed. To apply, click the button on the left to log into Wolverine Access. Issues applying? Scroll down for troubleshooting.

Questions:

Essay A (Please limit essay to no more than than 150 words):​

Tell u.s.a. why yous are interested in Honors. What makes Honors a good fit for your goals and interests?

AND Essay B (choose one of the following prompts. Please limit your essay to 500-1000 words):

1.) Research shows that music can have healing furnishings comparable to those of pharmaceutical or traditional medicinesane, 2. Who or what heals you lot?

-question submitted by Elaina Bakery, class of 2021

two.) Some words in the English language language take interesting, fifty-fifty wacky histories: "jeans," "sandwich," "ketchup." For this prompt, create a new discussion in any language and give information technology a backstory.

iii.)  Socrates said "the unexamined life is not worth living." The contemporary Quantified Cocky move suggests "the unquantified life is not worth living" and celebrates how modern article of clothing tech and other information technology tools permit us to measure almost everything we practice. Do we know ourselves amend? Are our lives richer as a consequence?

iv.) "Schoolhouse is a game, but a bad 1." Discuss.

References

  1. Chanda, Chiliad. Fifty., & Levitin, D. J. (2013). The neurochemistry of music.Trends in cognitive sciences,17(4), 179–193. https://doi.org/ten.1016/j.tics.2013.02.007
  2. Särkämö, T., Tervaniemi, Grand., Laitinen, Southward., Forsblom, A., Soinila, S., Mikkonen, Grand., Autti, T., Silvennoinen, H. K., Erkkilä, J., Laine, M., Peretz, I., & Hietanen, Yard. (2008). Music listening enhances cerebral recovery and mood later on middle cognitive artery stroke.Brain, 131(3), 866–976. https://doi.org/x.1093/brain/awn013

Troubleshooting

Don't have a U-G Friend Account? Get HERE to create i! (Delight know that subsequently creating the account, you MUST cosign it before you can submit!)

If you receive an error message after clicking the "Upload Your Essay" button on the left and attempting to log in with your U-Thou Friend business relationship, yous may not have completed all of the required steps to cosign your U-M Friend business relationship. Utilise this LINK to access data on troubleshooting your Friend business relationship.​

Afterwards you accept created a Friend account, you will need to log in to "New and Prospective Pupil Business concern" on Wolverine Access Gateway (which is under the "Students" tab), then enter your UMID and engagement of birth to authenticate the Friend account and get access to your application status.

We suggest using either Chrome or Net Explorer to access the submission site. Firefox has been linked to bug while uploading for many students.

Receiving the Reply

Your Honors reply will go to either (1) the email account that is linked to your U-M application, if you have non paid your U-M deposit or (2) your umich.edu e-mail address, if your deposit has been paid.