<p>I have been accepted into ASU and am now applying to the Barretts Honor College. Are there any campuses that are considered more desireable?</p>
<p>Barretts Honors College is the best you can get....</p>
<p>What do you mean more desireable campus?</p>
<p>Your post caught my eye because I'm an ASU alumni and I was in the Barrett Honors College. If you do indeed go there, here are my unsolicited tips:</p>
<p>For dorms, go for Hayden Hall. Its in the honors complex. Many might at first judge it for being old but a) there are community showers. This means professional cleaners come in and sanitize those facilities multiple times a week. For the freshman that think having their own bathroom in their room is great, you are WRONG. Having your own bathroom means your the only one whose coming to clean up the bathroom when your roommate ****es all over the seat or pukes in there or leaves hair in the tub. Its worth a 10 foot walk to the community bath to know that its been cleaned recently and you werent the one who had to do it </p>
<p>b) Hayden rooms are cut in half by a wall divider...so you have a roommate but you also have a lot of privacy </p>
<p>c) Hayden windows can be opened. Being able to circulate fresh air into a dormitory is really important to your quality of life - many of the other dorms do not have windows that really open, probably to prevent jumpers or whatever, but it sucks becuase it can get so stuffy and the smell of burnt popcorn from the guy 5 doors down just never freaking goes away....</p>
<p>d) Hayden is across the street from IHOP, which is 24 hours. So many good memories there :) </p>
<p>Oh yeah, other pro ASU/BHC things....Human Event will challenge you to write really well. You will probably get to meet a lot of HYS waitlisted kids in there from Brophy or Xavier. Hmm...sadly, thats all I can think of right now...ASU was good to me, but I can't say that its significantly better than most other state schools.....</p>
<p>ASU has four campuses. ASU main is the most desireable and is the only campus with the honors college. ASU west and ASU east are a little lower than main. I believe they just opened up a dowtown phoenix campus that suppose to be for nursing or something along those lines</p>
<p>ok cause on the bhc app it askes me to choose a campus. makalika, how did you end up in irvine? AZ not that great after college?</p>
<p>Hey!! I got accepted into the BHC a month ago. So excited. </p>
<p>"For dorms, go for Hayden Hall. Its in the honors complex. "</p>
<p>That's creepy...that's where I applied to. </p>
<p>My sister is a junior at ASU and LOVES it. She thinks it is the perfect balance between social and academic lifestyles (although so are other schools). </p>
<p>And the "East" campus is called polytechnic campus.
When it asks you what campus on the BHC application (I slaved over that app. for a month!), pick the one that you got accepted to. You probably were accepted to the Tempe campus.</p>
<p>Um - AZ is hot, and post graduation employment opportunities are limited if your looking for a national/global companies' logo to be on your business card. I was degreed in Mathematics with a Computer Science background - so for the technical degrees I can say this is particularly true. Honeywell still chugs along in the valley, and if you go to Tucson, IBM still has a large site, but beyond that you will most likely work for a SMB (small/medium business) or have to leave the state. </p>
<p>As far as ASU is concerned....its as good as most state schools, I wouldnt say its significantly better or worse in all honesty. I know alumni are supposed to be 100% pro their schools becuase it makes their degree look more impressive but I really couldnt argue that an eduction there is any better than a UC school or UofA, etc. I'm disappointed to see how high tuition as been raised since I was there - (when I started in 2000 it was like $1200 a semester) because that was part of what made it a great choice - decent education at a great price. I would stay on main campus - I didnt realize that you could take the honors classes on any other campus. Actually there really arent that many required "honors" classes. When I was attending you took 2 required Honors courses your freshman year...they are called The Human Event. These are really good courses....you will be challenged to read classic texts from a variety of cultures...you will be forced to write about them at a truly college level which is going to really help when you enter you UD classes that require more paper writing. After that though, your honors requirements can be met by taking other "honors" courses or you can make a contract with professors of other "regular" classes to convert them to "honors" status by doing extra work/projects, etc. So your honors experience is what you make of it for the most part. At the end all honors college graduates also must write and defend a thesis. You can chose what to write it on...it doesnt even have to be related to your major, although it makes sense that it would...but as a math major, I toyed with doing a thesis on German culture, (ultimately stuck with work related to my research in math-biop topics) so its a mixed bag. </p>
<p>Let me know if I can answer any other questions....</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>