Honors Application

Honors Letter of Recommendation

Grading Rubric for Application Essay

Honors Scholar Application

Fall 2008 Honors Courses

Honors Transfer Program

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What Does Cabrillo's Honors Transfer Program Provide?

Cabrillo's Honors Transfer Program provides an enriched educational experience by offering honors classes that provide an opportunity for challenging outside research, stimulating seminars and sophisticated literature. Our goal is to encourage our students to seek challenges and pursue excellence. This program is about digging deeper, going beyond the textbook, and sharing your talents and interests with other highly motivated students.

Our honors courses reflect our instructors' interests in, and commitment to, a rigorous exploration of academic, intellectual, cultural and social issues. We offer a full array of university transfer classes and an honors learning community that serves the high potential, high achieving students of our county. Universities are looking for outstanding students who have done more than the minimum transfer requirements. As a result, Universities actively pursue honors students.

Who Joins the Program?

Students from all backgrounds, ages and experiences join Cabrillo's Honors Transfer Program. Current Cabrillo students, students coming to Cabrillo from other colleges and universities, and recent high school graduates are all welcome to apply to the program.

Intrigued? We thought so. Here are the next steps: 1) Review the minimum qualifications below 2) Complete an application and submit it to the Honors Transfer Program Office along with your essay and one letter of recommendation. It's that simple! We'll contact you within two weeks after receiving your packet.

Minimum Qualifications

• Students applying directly from high school need a minimum 3.5 high school GPA or 1900 SAT or 29 ACT test scores.
• Students who have completed high school and are enrolled in college (Cabrillo or another college) need a minimum 3.3 cumulative GPA.
• Verification of writing proficiency, one letter of recommendation, and an essay are also required to complete your application for the Honors Transfer Program.

Why Join The Honors Transfer Program?

As four-year universities become increasingly selective, transfer students need every edge to assist them with their transfer admission. Honors students are in high demand at selective universities such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Pomona, UC San Diego, Pitzer and more.

What Honors Students Experience:

• Priority admission or a competitive edge in the admissions process depending on the college or university to which you apply
• Scholarship advising and opportunities
• Research support from Cabrillo's award winning library staff
• Counseling and transfer assistance
• Recognition of honors coursework on transcripts and at graduation
• Smaller class size (29 or fewer students per class)
• Faculty mentors
• A stimulating environment
• Membership in an honors transfer community of students
• Enriched curriculum
• A strong support network

Honors Scholar Designation

To achieve the Honors Scholar designation, students must complete 4 or 5 honors courses in a minimum of 15 semester units with a transferable GPA of 3.50 or higher. Each honors course completed is noted with Honors on a student's transcript. Students who complete the 15-unit program receive the designation Honors Scholar posted on their transcript and their accomplishment announced at Cabrillo's graduation. Both honors courses and the Honors Scholar designation will stand out on university applications and improve students'chances or being admitted to selective college and universities.

For More Information Contact:

Donna Mekis

Honors Transfer Program

Cabrillo College

6500 Soquel Drive

Aptos, CA 95003

(831) 477-3505

domekis@cabrillo.edu