School
In our last episode, Eli 17.9 was crushed because his application had been rejected to Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Brown.He did make the waitlist at Cal.
However, he had already been accepted to Michigan in the early application period, and then they invited him to apply to the Honors College.
The Honors College is a prestigious sub-section inside Michigan, and they only admit 500 kids each year (60,000 kids applied to Michigan this year, which is incredible).
We were on the putting green a few days ago, and Eli said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, but I got into the Honors College."
"Wait, what?" I said, laughing, giving him a big hug. "I just assumed this would be another disappointing tryout with no feedback!"
"I know, right?" he said, laughing. "But I actually got in."
There are lots of perks to being in the Honors College beyond academic rigor. They stay in a separate dorm with bigger rooms, and they have a cafeteria with better food (as far as I can tell, this is the equivalent of the Jock Dorm, but for nerds). On the academic side, there are special classes, an academic advisor with far fewer students, and a higher level of attention in general.
The effect on Eli has been pretty significant. Michigan's size (30,000 students) was intimidating, and not the college experience he'd been hoping for, but now he's going to get a version of the small school experience, and he's very happy about it.
Me, too. Thanks, Michigan.
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