Application for Mathematics Honors (If you have problems printing this, go to the Mathematics Undergraduate office in Hill 303.)

Application Procedures and Processing

Because the honors track is considerably more demanding than the math major, students must apply for admission. Each student's application is evaluated by the honors committee, who attempts to assess whether the student is prepared to fulfill the requirements of the honors track.

Students should apply to the honors track before the end of their sophomore year. Applications received from students during the second semester of their sophomore year are reviewed at the end of the semester and students are normally notified early in the summer whether or not they were accepted.

While the normal time for admission to the honors track is at the end of the sophomore year, students are encouraged to submit their application before that. Applications received from students prior to the second semester of their sophomore year are handled as follows. When a student applies, his or her application is reviewed by the honors track committee. During the initial review, the student may be accepted immediately into the program. Otherwise the student will be informed that his or her application has been received and the student has been registered as an "honors track applicant". An honors track applicant can seek advice from the committee about how to strengthen his or her record (including advice about choosing courses) so as to qualify for the program. Every pending application will be reviewed by the honors track committee at the end of each semester, until the student is accepted or until the end of the sophomore year. Students not accepted by the end of the sophomore year are usually rejected from the program, although in some borderline cases, the final decision may be postponed until the end of the fall semester of the following year.

In unusual cases, the committee will consider applications from students after the beginning of their junior year.

Requirements for Admission to the Honors Track

There are no fixed requirements for admission to the honors track. Each applicant is carefully evaluated by the honors track committee, with consideration given to courses taken, grades, comments from instructors and any other information available to the committee. Admission is granted based on the best assessment by the committee of a student's ability to be able to handle the requirements of the program. In particular, the student must demonstrate both the necessary skills in mathematics (especially mathematical proofs) and a serious commitment to their studies.

While there are no fixed requirements, a successful applicant will normally have taken at least the following courses by the end of his or her second year:

• 151H or Advanced Placement Credit for 151.
• 192, 152H or Advanced Placement Credit for 152.
• 291 or 251H
• 292 or 252H
• 250 (preferably the MATLAB section )
• At least one of the following: 300H (Honors section of Math 300 offered during the spring semester), 311, 350 or 351. (Note that 300 is a prerequisite for each of the latter 3 courses.)
• At least one semester of the Introductory Honors Seminar

For a typical honors track student, most grades in mathematics would be A's, there would normally be no grades below B, and the grades in courses at the 300+ level would be at least B+.