<p>Anybody in the Honors Program at Tulane?</p>
<p>Sure, hundreds of people. LOL. What would you like to know?</p>
<p>I am!! Feel free to PM me your questions, or you can just ask them on here.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me, too~!</p>
<p>I’m a freshman, so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to answer, but I can give it a shot.</p>
<p>I would rather the current students weigh in the most, but being an alum and having a D in the Honors Program, here is what I see as the biggest advatages to being in the HP.</p>
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<li><p>Nearly automatic placement in Butler, the Honors Dorm, if that is what you want. It is quieter and you are around many of your fellow Honors Program peers. A fair number of honors students decide they want Wall, the Residential College dorm, or Monroe/Sharp, because they want that more “typical” freshman experience. But if you are looking for a quieter, more academic atmosphere, then Butler is a good choice. It is still quite social, just not the “hard partying” type of social.</p></li>
<li><p>More direction when it comes to Honors courses and the like.</p></li>
<li><p>More advising for prestigious fellowships and grants, such as Rhodes, Goldwaters, Marshalls, etc. Also keeps you on track to graduate with Honors, i.e. Summa and Magana.</p></li>
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<p>It isn’t that the courses are all at a different level, like most highly selective private schools Tulane already has a student body that is among the more intelligent in the country. It does, however, help focus the “best of the best” to achieve all they can, if you take advantage of the resources associated with the program.</p>
<p>I’m also a student in the Honor’s program. Biggest benefit is the ability to take courses with less number of students early in your collegiate career. Also, honor’s courses are often taught by longer-tenured professors. I had Tom Luongo, Dean of the Honors program, as a professor my first semester at Tulane.</p>
<p>Mkay well some of you already answered but what are your favorite things about tulane?
whether it be new orleans or class size or whatever… and what’s your overall satisfaction with the school— like are you happy?</p>
<p>THANKS GUYS</p>
<p>Favorite Things- New Orleans, Audubon Park, Ability to do research as a freshman, General opportunities available (***if one takes initiative to seek them out)</p>
<p>Overall, I’m fairly happy. I guess my main complaint is that I’m not really being challenged in my classes, but I’d rather everything be super easy than be stressed all the time. Suprisingly, there aren’t many clubs or sports here, either, which is kinda dissapointing 
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<p>I turned down multiple top-15 schools to come to Tulane, but I really think it was worth it considering I already have a research position as a freshman and have access to lots of things I wouldn’t at other places.</p>
<p>Many highly talented freshmen find the first semester easier than they expected. It will get harder, I suspect. The statement that surprises me is the one about clubs and sports. Just looking over the list online there seem to be well over 200 clubs/organizations of all types, and about 37 or so club sports. Is that list not real?</p>
<p>I have no idea if the list was real, but I found myself disappointed because there weren’t many things I was interested in joining. Maybe I need to take the initiative and start my own club!</p>
<p>I’m sure it will get more difficult, but the intro classes are pretty easy especially if you have previous knowledge and/or preparation from HS.</p>
<p>Yeah, I understand. I was looking at your other posts and I have to believe you could have placed out of some of those courses but you had to take them because you are pre-med? That would explain a lot. You probably would have found the same situation at almost any university. My D, who is a liberal arts major (and not remotely pre-med), immediately went into 200 and 300 level courses since she tested out of the intro courses, except for the new foreign language she is taking. She has found the courses challenging and very interesting.</p>
<p>I strongly encourage you to look into starting groups that meet your own interests if they don’t currently exist. There is a very high probability that if you have an unmet need or desire, there are many others that also have the same. Go for it!</p>
<p>Yes, I’m retaking all my science classes since some med schools won’t accept AP credit for the prereqs :(</p>
<p>To add to OP’s Question:</p>
<p>Another thing I like about Tulane is the size. It is PERFECT IMO. It is nice because you are almost always running into people you know, but it is big enough that there are always new people to meet/hang out with. In response to size, I can’t really comment on class sizes since all my intro science classes are HUGE. My honors class is 10 people, though.</p>
<p>By huge, you mean about 200? At many other schools, those classes can be 500 or more in a lecture. That is becoming even more common due to budget cuts. But certainly by Tulane standards, these are large classes. I believe they are the largest, along with some intro psych courses.</p>
<p>Yes, my classes are huge for Tulane. 2 of my classes are held in Richardson in the biggest lecture hall at Tulane. They would be big anywhere, so I’m not really complaining. I was just saying that I couldn’t really comment on class sizes since Liberal Arts, Architecture, Buisness, & Public Health majors all have varying class sizes at Tulane.</p>
<p>Tulane14 what are you researching?</p>
<p>As far as my favorite things about Tulane, I could fill up pages. </p>
<p>New Orleans is amazing with an abundance of things to do. With Audubon Park, Frenchman’s Street, Magazine Street, French Quarter, etc., you never have to search for something to do. </p>
<p>Most of my professors are great and very accessible. I do agree that it is much easier than I had expected, but that’s because I took a few of classes (calc, bio and chem) that I would have been able to place out of if I wasn’t pre-med.</p>
<p>The size is ideal for me. During fall break I visited some friends at different schools. Two of them are going to very small schools (approx 1,500 students) which is the same size as my high school, and that’s exactly what they felt like. The other was huge (approx. 38,000 students) which seemed overwhelming and impersonal.</p>
<p>Unlike Tulane14, I found that there are too many clubs and not enough time in the day to do all that I would like to do.</p>
<p>I spend many hours at Reily during the week. They have a lot of classes, racquetball, a track, pool…</p>
<p>Like I said, I can go on and on about all my favorite things about Tulane, but don’t want to bore you. So, if you have anything specific you want to know about, feel free to ask.</p>
<p>I looked through the website and I had a difficult time trying to find the answer to the question I’m about to ask. Do you have to apply as part of the application process to get into Tulane’s honor program or are you considered upon applying with no extra application? Or do you have to note somewhere on the application that you want to be considered? If there is a separate application, where can I find it because I have been unsuccessful finding that so far? Thanks!</p>
<p>There’s no extra application- you are considered upon applying.</p>
<p>Just to add a bit to what jph said (which is totally correct of course), if they offer you a spot in the Honors Program they will tell you in the snail mail letter that comes after the online notice of your acceptance to Tulane. I think merit scholarships and Honors Program notifications are only done on paper, at least initially.</p>
<p>Also, even if you are not accepted to the HP initially, you can earn your way in by achieving a 3.6 or better freshman year. If your goal is to graduate magna cum laude or summa cum laude, you will have to do this at least by the end of your sophomore year, but of course the sooner the better. You also have to do an honors thesis in order to graduate with these distinctions.</p>
<p>Finally, even if you are not invited to the Honors Program initially, you can still enroll in honors sections of courses. That will be useful to you if you do achieve the needed GPA, because you have to attain a certain number of honors course credits to fulfill the requirements for Latin honors.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Yes thanks so much!</p>