<p>Is it possible to appeal from College Park Scholars to Honors College? I know that it is possible to appeal into the honors program for some other state schools, but I haven't been able to find any information about it for UMD.</p>
<p>Never heard of that working. Can’t hurt to try though. Scholars is a great program. You might be surprised.</p>
<p>Here’s a tip from a UMD student. Both are meaningless (although Scholars seems to be even worse with forced community services, etc). Getting department honors in your respective school in your 3rd, 4th year would mean a lot more.</p>
<p>That being said, it is important in that it decides where you’ll live. If you’re set on living in the honors dorms with honors kids, simply find a friend who’s in the honors program and request to be roommates.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I agree with the meaningless assessment. The H-level and Honors Seminars classes are big benefit. Last semester my daughter took one great Honors seminar limited to 20 students in the Honors program. She also took an H-level bio class. Being with Honors students made the class more interesting. Those classes tend to have better professors and higher quality students. Additionally the Honors students on her floor are on the more intellectual side and tend to study more and party less.</p>
<p>^MDdad2012. Well that makes me angry. I didn’t get into honors, but I fit among that type. I don’t want to party. I would like to study most of the time. It’s not fair that I have to be surrounded by hardcore party people. I don’t think that will be a very fun time…:(</p>
<p>There are good points about Scholars as well. I think the out-of-classroom experience is positive. There seem to be some interesting field trips and travel experiences. I don’t know as much about Scholars, since my daughter is in Honors.</p>
<p>Yellowdog99,</p>
<p>I think Maryland is not the party school it use to be. Now I don’t live on frat row but the general population here seems pretty serious academically. </p>
<p>You will definitely find people like you that are regular students.</p>
<p>Okay thanks, that’s reassuring.</p>
<p>Yellowdog99, D2 was not a partier as a freshman…her Scholars floor was an “overflow” floor, which included people from her program, as well as some random freshmen who were put on the floor at the last minute. She found that all the other “nonpartiers” went home for the weekend (almost everyone from her floor was local), so the first few weekends were pretty strange… But, then she met people in her classes, hung out with people in her program from another floor in the dorm, and the nonpartiers stopped going home every weekend. While it’s true that there will be a lot of partiers around you, you will find like-minded people to you…really.</p>