<p>I recieved a letter with scholarship information for Arizona State's honors college. It seem like a great place on their website, but what school doesn't........ </p>
<p>So does anyone have any experience with the honors college? They are offering me a scholarship that covers tuition, so it is very appealing, but it kind of seems like one of those "too good to be true" type of things. Any advice/input is much appreciated :)</p>
<p>^non resident tuition, not including room and board, if that even makes a difference</p>
<p>My son and I visited there a few years ago, and we both thought it was an amazing opportunity. Profs at ASU apparently love to teach Barrett students. The film profs took the time to speak with my son at length, and the same happened to his friend who was interested in engineering. I was really impressed by that; this is a huge university, and they didn’t need to do that. The Barrett dean met with us personally for a half hour or so, and I found him delightful. Barrett itself was about to build a great new building, and the kids there seemed very engaged and excited about the place. </p>
<p>My son ended up choosing USC for film school, but he felt ASU really showed him the love, and it was a close second in his mind. I know this is pretty limited experience on which to base a recommendation, but I think it’s worth a look.</p>
<p>They give a lot of great perks. But it’s still ASU. Balance it with your other offers.</p>
<p>^what do you mean by “its still ASU”. I really don’t know anything about it, so could you explain please</p>
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<p>Acceptance rate 91%. You can parse it to interpret it whichever way you think that means.</p>
<p>My nephew is at ASU. Academically, overall ASU is not exactly up there. I don’t know how Barrett operates. Is it really a college within a college? Meaning, you take most courses within Barret with other Barret students. Or, is it like most other honor colleges where you still have to take vast majority of your courses with the general student population, in which case, the quality and rigor of the academic standards reflect the overall school’s level, not the honor college.</p>
<p>^that’s what I’d like to hear people vouch for, I don’t really know how it works either. I want to do Supply Chain Management and I guess it’s a pretty good school for that</p>
<p>If you’re in the business school and Barrett, you’ll have a wealth of honors classes to take – take a look at
[Barrett</a>, The Honors College Honors Opportunities in Majors](<a href=“http://barretthonors.asu.edu/home/category/3-students/5-honors-opportunities-in-majors/]Barrett”>http://barretthonors.asu.edu/home/category/3-students/5-honors-opportunities-in-majors/)
and look at the Business listing. (Supply Chain Management is within the Business school.)</p>
<p>I know someone whose nephew is in Barret. He was heartbroken when he didn’t get into Stanford, but now he loves Barret. Much cheaper, too!</p>
<p>We looked 3 years ago. At that time a large proportion of classes in the sciences and engineering were not Barrett’s seminars, but in the general university. We didn’t look at business classes. Most of the BHC seminars were in humanities and social sciences. Maybe that has changed now. Students in BHC just had to add an extra paper or project to get honors credits in a non-BHC course. They repeatedly said how easy these were. Our impression was many BHC kids were pre-professional and eager to save for prof. school tuition. They were also eager to keep high GPAs and could do so with no sweat at ASU. My kid sat in on both BHC seminars and ASU science classes, and decided the place wasn’t going to offer sufficient challenge–this is a kid who thrives on academic rigor. On the positive side, the money offer was sweet, the Dean had big plans, the planned honors complex was impressive, and the rest of buildings and facilities at ASU looked great. What happened within the classrooms wasn’t quite there yet, but this was 3 years ago. However, in the meantime, the recession and housing bust hit Arizona and ASU very hard. </p>
<p>Consider also where you are coming from. Especially if you are in an educationally high performing state or high school, sit in on some non-Barretts classes at ASU to decide whether your time will be well spent. If you won’t mind being the smartest kid in the room half the time, you could make Barretts work for you.</p>
<p>Barrett is one of the best Honors College in the nation and Supply Chain Management is a highly regarded major at ASU. Many corporations recruit Supply Chain students at ASU every year. The average starting salary is $50,000+. This year about 35 major companies attended ASU’s Supply Chain Management Association’s Career Fair in September. Barrett now has it new complex. For full tuition you will not go wrong. You shall give it a strong consideration. There are plenty smart and highly motivated students at Barrett.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for all of the responses! Does anyone know how hard is it to get into the honors college and the supply c.m. program? I know that the avg. ACT score is 29 and the avg. gpa is around 3.8, which is what I have as well. It’s a bit daunting because there are so many National merit finalists/ hispanic scholars there.Aside from that I’m not really sure how competitive it is.</p>
<p>The scholarship is fixed, so it won’t increase over the time that I would be there, how much does tuition typically go up each year???</p>
<p>Barretts is a unique honors college and does function as a “college within a college” with its own requirements while integrated within the university as a whole. It also offers a great dorm complex as well. Yes, ASU does have a rep as a “party school” and has a high acceptance (read easy to get into) rate, BUT Barretts has a national reputation which is excellent. Some honors colleges don’t mean all that much but it is not true with Barretts. That is why it does have a high number of NMSF; Hispanic Scholars, etc. along with the scholarship opportunities. My nephew is a student there and I am quite familiar with it. Yes, weigh it against your other options and you do need to make sure it is the environment you would like, but do not rule it out.</p>
<p>Hey LAXer25, I’m an out of state student who has applied and been accepted to ASU and will be going to barretts for business so i know a TON about this! </p>
<p>Barretts is AMAZING! It’s been voted the absolute best honors college in the nation!!! You have to realize that state schools, especially when theres only 3 in the state, are required by law to accept large amounts of students cause states obviously want their people to go to college. But Barretts is an individual college - there are I think 4 ginormous halls that are honors only housing, nicest dorms my dad or I had ever seen! Really nice. The dining hall is superb! like really unbelievable so delicious the food there and its a Barretts only thing. </p>
<p>Barretts has tons of opportunities, and being in barretts is competitive and the students there are driven and motivated. Honors classes are guaranteed to be under 25 students and under 19 if its an English class I think, and they’re really well done. You can obviously take as many special honors classes as you want, but have to take at least 1-2 classes as honors each semester no matter what. Barretts is amazing - its the reason I picked ASU. </p>
<p>There are some people who like to bash ASU because they accept 85% (not 95 or w/e) of their applicants, but you also have to realize that a lot of the people who are just there to party and dont care A) drop out after the first semester and B) wont be the kind of people someone driven and motivated will surround themselves with anyway, thats just the natural way of it. ASU does have a party aspect, like any school with more than 1200 students, but you can obviously participate as much or as little as you want; with a school that big there’s a large crowd for anyone of any type.</p>
<p>The supply chain management program is ranked #1 in the USA! So if thats what you want to do, it doesnt really make sense to pass that program up, especially if you have free tuition!!! If you’re in the honors college you’re also put in the WP Carey Academy (if youre some kind of business major, which supply c.m. is) - this is a super elite section of the business school that has all these incredible opportunities like special seminars and meetings and networking opportunities with professionals/employers. ALL the recruiters meet the Academy kids first, then the rest of the WP Carey Business College students.</p>
<p>Honors college also has priority registration, which is invaluable in any school over 10,000 students. They also have special seminars, events, and fun activities hosted in the Barretts area or around campus a lot. The more I looked into Barretts and WP Carey, the more I was blown away. With the aid of a 50 million dollar grant, they’ve made these two aspects especially incredible. </p>
<p>I <em>love</em> ASU and Barretts, which is why I decided to leave home and spend the next four years of my life there. I completely encourage you to do the same - I haven’t heard one negative thing about Barretts from anyone whos been there recently (within the past year and a half or so, after all the new additions were made). Ive made a few friends in BArretts already and the opportunities and experiences theyve had are incredible! I can’t wait to do the same! Feel free to private message me with any more questions, I’ve got a ton more information on this :)</p>
<p>Are you guaranteed into Barretts? Or must you apply and might get rejected? </p>
<p>You got full OOS tuition with an ACT 29? Or were you National Merit or National Hispanic?</p>
<p>No guarantee, they don’t give exact criteria on what the stats are that are needed. You first apply to ASU, get accepted, then apply to Barrett’s. Have been told that they do pay particular attention to the essay, in addition to the stats and that they are looking to “build a class” at Barrett’s, so they give preference to URM etc.</p>
<p>^but I really doubt being Mexican would help at all because it’s Arizona, there are a ton of Mexicans/hispanics there</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids- I don’t think it’s guranteed because it says “if you apply to Arizona State University and are admitted, you will receive ASU’s National Hispanic Finalist Scholarship. This scholarship is a cash award in the amount of nonresident tuition which will remain the same dollar amount throughout your eight semesters of eligibility.” And the letter was “signed” by the executive director(?) and the dean of Barret.</p>
<p>And yes, I’m a Hispanic scholar and have an act of 29</p>
<p>^ I would be very surprised if you weren’t accepted.</p>
<p>Unless you’re NMS or NHS, you’re probably not getting a full tuition scholarship. Even with NMS, I didn’t think they were giving full tuition any longer.</p>
<p>It used to be full tuition+room&board, so full tuition alone is reasonable.</p>