<p>My son is a National Scholars Presidential scholarship recipient and will (hopefully) be in the Architecture Foundation Unit this fall. He’s planning to enter the Honors College but I’m wondering if due to the Architecture work load he wouldn’t be better off just taking regular classes. Also, from what I’ve been told, if he is in Honors College, he can’t use his AP credits. Would be interested to hear feedback from other parents with kids in Architecture & Honors College. </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>My child is in Foundation and Honors. They can do it - just hard finding Honors classes that fit with the studio class. Most of the students in Foundation are in Honors College since Foundation selection is based on higher stats. My feeling is try and see if it works - no loss if it does not. I would venture to say though that Arch has fewer honors college graduates. 5 years with studio classes (5-6 hours credit for 12 hr class time) each week makes this difficult. In addition to those studio hours they probably all spend an additional 30-40 hrs a week working in studio for projects.
They must have changed the AP credit rule - they counted this year. Maybe they don’t count towards the honors credits?</p>
<p>APs count towards fulfilling regular core credits, but not the honors requirement credits. This is pretty standard – a student may even decide to forgo applying their existing APs in order to take an honors version of that course (ex. AP bio). I think it depends on certain post-graduate program variables.</p>
<p>Good news- the honors college now has one required 2nd year architecture class which is also classified as an honors class architectural history 1 next fall. They will all have the same class, but they will require extra work from the Honors students. If I were to use any AP credit it would be fornthe required Physics class for architecture. The class averages I hear of in college physics is scary - 38 percent! This years Foundation Unit will return 25/25 (25/30 after Fall) - strong group! They are all thrilled to put their ARcitecture school decals on their cars since they are officially in the school of Architecture school and not Pre-Arch.</p>