Transfer Partners
Honors Scholars (3.5 GPA and completed 6 honors courses) may qualify for
the following transfer privileges. Consult the transfer college or Honors
Institute for specific requirements and deadlines.
Note: Need Help in Writing the UC Personal Admission Statement?
California State University, East Bay

Admissions Agreement: GUARANTEED ADMISSION for students who meet entrance requirements.
Honors Scholars also guaranteed admission to the CSUEB Honors Program.

Scholarships/ Financial Aid: Honors Scholar admits will receive a textbook stipend.

Other: The CSUEB Honors Program sponsors cultural events which Honors Students are welcome to attend.
Additionally, if Honors Students participate in the concurrent enrollment program with CSUEB they may receive honors credit for this work.
California State University, Stanislaus

Admission Agreement: CSU Stanislaus will offer five scholarships to entering students
who meet our eligibility requirements and have completed four Honors courses in an HTC
Honors Program (of which Foothill College is a member) with a grade of B+ or better.

Scholarships/ Financial Aid: The scholarship offer is contingent on enrollment in
the University Honors Program. We will offer five President's Academic Achievement
Awards in the amount of $2000 per year (renewable once) to students who meet these
eligibility requirements and submit a completed application for admission to the
program by March 2nd. The GPA requirement for this scholarship is 3.5, with a
minimum of 45 transferable units (not including AP, CLEP, military, or other
non-credit awards). Students must submit a separate scholarship application
to the Financial Aid office by March 2nd, and must be a California resident.
Scholarship applications can be accessed from the campus website
www.csustan.edu/FinancialAid/
and Honors applications and information about our program are available on
the Honors Program website
www.honors.csustan.edu
Chapman University

Admission Agreement: GUARANTEED ADMISSION if student is IGETC or CSU certified with 3.3+ GPA.

Scholarships/ Financial Aid: Students with 3.3-3.49 GPA guaranteed a $5000 annual scholarship.
Students with a 3.5+ GPA guaranteed a $8500 annual scholarship.

Other: Chapman has its own honors program; honors transfer students have
traditionally been allowed to join as juniors. Chapman has just built a
brand new $30 million business school. Other specialties include film,
nutrition and physical therapy.
Pacific University

Admission Agreement: Honors Scholars are essentially guaranteed admission,
since normally anyone with a 2.7 or higher is admitted.

Scholarships/Financial Aid: Pacific guarantees Honors Scholars with a 3.5+
an automatically renewable $7500 scholarship in addition to whatever financial
aid they qualify for.

Other: Pacific University has 6 profession programs which rank nationally:
Exercise Science, Physical Therapy, Optometry, Occupational Therapy, Psychology,
Education and Physician's Assistant. Their undergraduate biological sciences
program is also excellent.
Pitzer College

Admission Agreement: PRIORITY ADMISSION for Honors Scholars

Scholarships/ Financial Aid: Pitzer guarantees to provide 100% of the student's
demonstrated financial need.

Other: Pitzer has a "New Resources Program" designed specially for
transfer students who are 25 years and older. These students are allowed to
attend Pitzer part time, yet still receive financial aid. Pitzer promises to
cover 100% of the resource student's demonstrated financial need for tuition
and personal expenses, but not living expenses for the student's family if
he/she has one.
St Mary's College

Admission: Honors students who meet the St. Mary's entrance requirements
are GUARANTEED ADMISSION.

Scholarships: Honors students with a 3.5+ GPA are guaranteed a $6000 annual
renewable scholarship above and beyond financial aid.

Other Privileges: All LMC Honors Students are eligible to use the St.
Mary's library facilities.
San Diego State University

Admission: Honors Scholars receive PRIORITY acceptance to the SDSU
Honors Program.

Other: Students can transfer up to 18 units of their community college honors
credits towards SDSU's required 24 units of honors courses. (Honors courses only,
not contract units!). Additionally, honors students will receive "Priority
early registration".
San Francisco State University

Admission: GUARANTEED ADMISSION to qualified applicants.

Scholarships/Financial Aid: One $500 scholarship will be awarded to an honors
community college transfer student from Northern California each year.

Other: SF State has a designated Honors Transfer Liaison who provides personal
assistance to honors students in the admission and transfer process.
UC, Irvine: Community College Honors Transfer Program

Admission: Honors Scholars have PRIORITY ADMISSION status.

Other: Honors Scholars with a 3.5+ GPA will be considered for entrance into the
UCI Campuswide Honors Program. They also host a special spring program for honors
transfer students. Honors students are guaranteed housing. n UC application
under "Transfer Admissions Programs", enter the code for UCI Honors
Transfer Program, and under "Release Authorization" check "college counselor"
UCLA

Admission: Honors Scholars are given priority consideration for admission to the
College of Letters and Science. International students and applicants for impacted
majors are not guaranteed priority admission consideration, but may be admitted
to a second major if prerequisites have been met. Guaranteed acceptance to UCLA
Honors Program - merit and need-based scholarships.

TAP Conference, November -- an organized visit to the campus to prepare students
to transfer On UC application under "Transfer Admissions Programs", enter
the code for UCLA Transfer Alliance Program, and under "Release Authorization"
check "College Counselor" Over the last five years 85-95% of honors
applicants have been admitted as compared to only 43% of non-honors transfer
applicants. Typically, honors students who were denied either applied in impacted
majors such as economics, film, theatre or business, or hadn't completed their
major requirements.

Scholarships/ Financial Aid: UCLA offers 27 $8000 scholarships if eligible for
financial aid, and the $4000 annual Wasserman Scholarships for which only honors
transfer students can compete. In 2003, 26 such scholarships were awarded.

Other: UCLA hosts special honors orientation days for honors students and
maintains very close contact with the Honors directors and counselors about
each student's admissions status.
Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington)

Admission: Honors Scholars receive PRIORITY admission status

Scholarships: Whitman has a scholarship program exclusive to students in
honors programs of the Honors Transfer Council of California. They will
annually offer up to 10 achievement scholarships of $8,000 per academic year,
for a total of $20,000 for five semesters to admitted Honors Scholars with a 3.5+ GPA.

Deadlines: Prospective students must apply to the Office of Admissions
by February 1st for consideration of admission and scholarships the following fall semester.
Foothill College Honors Institute
Bernie Day, Director or
Teresa De La Cruz, Program Assistant
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4599
We are located in 5426.
Call us at:
(650) 949-7638
Contact us by email:
honors@foothill.edu
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