<p>No, of course not. Some apply towards GEs or writing 2 classes though. There are upper-division courses that’ll cover… HC requirements. . .</p>
<p>so i can apply again during spring quarter.. depending on my units?</p>
<p>again, as long as I have my GPA, research, volunteer, the honors program is trivial? i’ll try.. but its not necessary?</p>
<p>you can apply any time you have a 3.5 ucla gpa or higher, if you’re in letters and science.</p>
<p>the honors program can help you achieve grad school, but it’s not necessary for grad school, if that’s what you mean. remember CSF in high school? it’s kind of like that… some people just use college honors for the priority and just to say you did it. but if you really use it for what it has to offer, then it serves the function it was meant to.</p>
<p>Does the subject area that you write about in your essay have to correspond to your “major” or whatever area ive indicated interest in? My interests have kind of change, so will it be okay to write something else. My “interest” is premicrobiology, immunology and molecular genetics. But now im more interested in larger scale stuff i.e. muscles and what not. Will it matter?</p>
<p>oh and is the subject matter/research binding in any way?</p>
<p>nope. doesn’t matter, is not binding.
i wrote something about music… i haven’t picked up an instrument in 3 years ;)</p>
<p>haha thanks</p>
<p>Which kind of honors is considered more prestigious: latin, college, or departmental?</p>
<p>i went to the second-to-last summer orientation and still enrolled in the classes that i wanted to. it’s not the end of the world.</p>
<p>Departmental honors are definitely a bigger deal than college honors, although they can overlap to a largre degree, and you can get both by following a certain path.</p>
<p>umm just wondering, for the english departmental honors if you have the right gpa can you just apply and get in. I’ve been looking at departmental honours in other faculties and they stipulate you need a faculty sponsor, but I don’t see this specified on the english website. Do you need a sponsor for English Honours, and they just neglected to put that on the website, or is access to the program guaranteed once you meet the requirements?</p>
<p>Also is there a certain no. of courses in the english department you’ll need to complete before you apply? Since I’m double-majoring I’ll probably only have…around 5-6 upper division english classes under my belt by winter quarter of my junior year, does the programme expect more classes to be done to ascertain departmental gpa?</p>
<p>bring up my thread. ignoring changeling’s q cuz i suck so much 2 answ3r it</p>
<p>Bumping…</p>
<p>Are you all sure acceptance is almost automatic? It says this:</p>
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<p>Priority enrollment aside, is the Honors Program REALLY worth it? I was at College Day and one of the students said they were planning to do away with the whole priority enrollment thing.</p>
<p>Who knows if its almost automatic? But most of us here pretty much got in.</p>
<p>As far as its value… that depends on what you’re looking for and how much you put in it. To some people, it’s just a notation on the transcript. Others, it provided opportunities to network with great professors.</p>
<p>^^ you don’t get priority enrollment for honors anymore…</p>
<p>Speaking as an Honors Fellow(I was one of the college day panelists this week, too). I have to say that its not just about priority enrollment. I had such an amazing experience in Honors–the Collegium classes are very small and the professor knows your name, your strengths and weaknesses, and pays attention to you. One of the best things is the fact that honors contracts and research force you to interact with professors–with great results. One of my professors, with whom i did an honors contract, was so impressed by my work that she wrote me letters of rec and put me in touch with her old college friends, who are national security lawyers, one of whom is legal counsel for the NSA. Without Honors, I would have been just another student, and I wouldn’t have made that connection. I’ve even managed to become sort of friends with some of professors this way. If you want to get something out of it, you have to put something into it.</p>
<p>abraxas, your story seems atypical. I don’t know many people in Honors and of those that are, they haven’t had any unique experiences. That’s why you’re an HF afterall, again not something open to everyone.</p>
<p>From what I understand, HF is a way for CH to revamp the program; CH used to be a lot more prominent decades ago. Could you comment on the history of the program and its current efforts? Over the last few years, I have seen essentially no changes except for a nicer website that replaced the seriously aging one. The listserv was basically useless and recently became a source of ‘spam’ from confused people. There lacks any significant connection between students and the program and the main thing really is just an honors progress card on MyUCLA. Everything else is just a “YMMV” situation and could have just as easily (or difficultly) been obtained through non-Honors courses. Certainly, there are no exclusive opportunities yet a committment since people who aren’t in the program can take those same courses (assuming this policy won’t change in light of the priority enrollment cutback).</p>
<p>I believe that the non-positive image of the Honors Program is evident in the extremely low matriculation rate. About 40% of an incoming class are in Honors but 10% finish, i.e. ~25% successful completion. It doesn’t seem like the minimum GPA requirement of 3.5 is a problem since the 80th percentile is ~3.7.</p>
<p>We were at College Day and they did say they were doing away with priority enrollment except for athletes and certain students with disabilities. UCLA has found that there was almost as many students in priority enrollment status than there were regular enrollment and the PE group had gotten so big that it defeted the purpose so now everyone will be on an equal basis for enrollment which should increase the availabiltiy of some classes.</p>
<p>ucapplicant05, I feel your frustration, and we’re trying to do a lot of student outreach, but it’s going very very slowly, mostly due to bureaucracy and the fact that our student outreach group is not very well coordinated at the moment(nor has it ever been since it was started in 2003). We’re trying to put together some mentoring programs for next year and start doing community events, but don’t hold your breath. Oh, and I was talking to the vice provost the other day and she mentioned that they might restrict Honors Collegium courses to Honors students(the way it shouldbe, IMHO). Since you seem to feel strongly on the subject of student involvement with the Honors community, how about you give me some ideas–we might just do implement some of them</p>