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<li><p>I read somewhere on CC that honors students only get priority registration for honors classes. When someone from UF Admissions came to my high school, she said that honors students get priority registration for ALL classes. Which is true?</p></li>
<li><p>Do Honors classes raise your GPA? What I mean is, do they work in the same way that honors classes in high school work? For example, in high school, an A in a regular class would be a 4.0, but an A in an honors class would be a 4.5. What is the system for grading the honors classes at UF?</p></li>
<li><p>I heard that if you are a National Merit Finalist, you are pretty much automatically admitted into the Honors Program at UF. However, what if you are a Semi-Finalist, but do not make it into the Finalist round (because of a couple Cs on a report card freshman year.) Are Semi-Finalists considered the same as Finalists, and do they automatically get accepted into the Honors Program?</p></li>
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<h1>1. You only get priority registration for the honors class you take. Prior to preview she was sent an email asking her to rank which honors classes she might be interested in taking. She put calc 3 as her 1st choice. She decided afterward that she wanted to take H phy 2060. When she went to preview she got notification that she’d received the calc 3 class she’d originally requested (the priority registered class). In the end, she ended up switching into the H physics class, but that wasn’t a problem.</h1>
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<li><p>There is no grade bump up for honors classes, such as the weighted system most high schools have. </p></li>
<li><p>I believe that the automatic admissions is solely for Finalists. Everyone else must bee the criteria for admission, which you can find here:</p></li>
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<p>[University</a> of Florida Honors Program: About Us](<a href=“http://www.honors.ufl.edu/aboutus.html#admission]University”>http://www.honors.ufl.edu/aboutus.html#admission)</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>One more question-- what are the differences between honors and regular classes? I know the main difference is the size, since honors classes are much smaller. But what about the level of difficulty? Are honors classes a lot harder?</p>
<p>I can only speak about the one she’s currently taking, the H physics 2060, which is essentially a class she was invited to take by the physics dept. (Class is set up for physics majors who want more than the regular 2048/2049 curriculum, and they’ve opened it up to honors non-majors who’ve scored well in high school). She finds the class quite challenging, mostly the modern physics as she hasn’t had as much of that, but she’s hanging in there. She had an “A” going into the second test last week … waiting for that test grade. But she has had to work much harder than she did in her AP physics class in high school. She actually (gasp) studies for these tests, LOL. </p>
<p>zebes</p>