Honors Programs

Students graduate from the school with honors on the basis of their final cumulative grade-point average. There are also two honors programs for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) students:

1. The SEBS General (Four-Year) Honors Program. Selected high school seniors with secondary school averages of at least 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) and superior SAT scores, who have applied to SEBS prior to the freshman application deadline, are invited from December through February to be interviewed for the program in the spring.
2. The George H. Cook Scholars Program, a senior honors thesis program. Students in the top 15 percent of the class are invited to participate in the fall of their junior year, so that they may plan/begin their work in the spring. The program, however, is open to any interested student recommended by a SEBS faculty member.

Independent study and special problems courses throughout the curriculum provide individualized research opportunities for advanced students, with appropriate departmental permission. Departments that offer honors in the major will normally award those honors to graduates who undertake a George H. Cook Scholars project in the department.

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