{"id":33,"date":"2020-02-12T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors-draft\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:19:03","slug":"eligibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero fullwidth  \"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"still\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/studentsatatable-scaled.jpg);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-panel-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-panel  \"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1731\/DSC00066-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"three students working together at a table.\"><\/figure><article>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Students who meet the following criteria will be eligible to join Honors at URI<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Students who have a 3.80 or greater high school GPA (weighted and recalculated and submit the required brief statement on the Common Application would like to be considered for the Honors Program<\/p>\n\n<\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p class=\"type-intro fullwidth\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you didn&#8217;t receive an invitation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who were not initially eligible to take Honors courses as first semester incoming students, can qualify for Honors by earning a cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher their first semester at URI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transfer students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who transfer to the University of Rhode Island with a cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher from their previous college or university will be eligible t<span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">o enroll in Honors courses. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">To maintain eligibility and continue in the Honors Program, students must maintain a <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t receive an invitation Students who were not initially eligible to take Honors courses as first semester incoming students, can qualify for Honors by earning a cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher their first semester at URI. Transfer students Students who transfer to the University of Rhode Island with a cumulative GPA of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}