<p>How much of a party school is Barrett’s?</p>
<p>ASU as a whole is ranked 9th in the nation by Playboy.</p>
<p>The honors college is more sedate/serious.</p>
<p>Barrett is an honors college. They have enforced quiet hours which the kids appreciate because they all have rigorous programs and need to get their work done. A lot of the kids are there partly because they don’t want to live in an atmosphere where they might need to dodge piles of vomit walking down the dorm hall Sunday morning. Most students have some kind of scholarship and are worried to lose it if they violate the code of conduct. I’m not saying they are angels. No doubt many of them party. But they do it discreetly and tend to do it off campus, or at least away from Barrett.</p>
<p>Barrett students work hard. When D had her overnight during the visit this spring, the host wanted her to talk to a friend doing a dbl major similar to what D wants to do and they practically had to drag the kid out of his room to chat for a bit because he was so piled up with projects. That’s typical, though the work tends to come in waves, with a bit of down time between.</p>
<p>ASU as a whole has a strong party spirit. The frats particularly have been causing the local community grief the past couple of years. The police and county sheriff have instituted a strong program to try to counteract the free-for-all attitude. The first several weeks of school this fall they arrested several hundred students each weekend for drinking/drugs. I don’t know if it made a difference, but they are trying.</p>
<p>Those Playboy rankings are ridiculous. UW-Madison was #2 this year. There IS a lot of drinking on game days, and not just by students, but #2? Gotta challenge that.</p>
<p>Hi celesteroberts can you tell me anymore about how the visit was? My D received an “Boarding Pass” invitation to come visit as part of a “Student Experience Day”. We are not sure exactly what they mean by “financially supporting your flight”. Are you familiar with this? TIA</p>
<p>According to the blurb, they will reimburse your flight (or alternative travel costs) up to $600.</p>
<p>Where we live, they offered $250 for the flight, but reimbursed $300, the actual flight cost. The visit is free if a student visits alone, as they do an overnight with a host student in Barrett and get meal vouchers to eat in Barrett dining hall. They will help you understand how student can use public transportation to get from airport to campus and meet you at station and take you to Barrett. They do not subsidize any costs for parents.</p>
<p>Our (D and I) first visit combined Barrett with music audition, so D had things of her own on top of the Barrett schedule. </p>
<p>The standard visit includes a regular campus tour, a Barrett presentation and tour, a dept. presentation by dept. of D’s intended major, attending the Human Events class, which is Barrett’s required honors humanity class, and an overnight in a dorm room with a host student that starts about 4pm. If you want to do more, you can ask them to help you put something together or do it on you own. In our case, it was so specialized that we scheduled all the extra itinerary ourselves, like meetings with dept. advisors, other class visits, auditions, etc. We left free time for campus and Barrett tours. You can look online at ASU and also Barrett’s visit page to see tour schedule and campus events. ASU has a skateboard tour available if your D is interested. Then we gave them our itinerary and they merged it with theirs. The campus is large, so if you schedule things tightly they will fetch you on golf cart and ferry around.</p>
<p>For my D, big priorities were determining the types of students at ASU in classes she’d likely attend and the way classes are taught. We looked up classes in online course catalog and contacted professors ourselves. </p>
<p>We poked around in library and Memorial Union, went to the arboretum north of campus. Shopped the bookstore. Much of the time I was on my own so climbed ‘A’ mountain, as they call Hayden Butte, checked out various bldgs on campus, figured out logistics of living there, like would walking be reasonable for her? A: Not really for her major, bike is essential as she doesn’t want to take campus shuttle around. Mapped distances of pharmacies and other shopping from Barrett and visited likely stores. Rode the light rail. </p>
<p>They are very competent and warm and helpful at Barrett. Emily Hsu and Michelle Hollin were the staff members we had the most contact with, handle the visit coordination.</p>
<p>If you have more question, PM me. My D is now a freshman there and I’ve been there 3 times so far.</p>
<p>Oh and one other thing. They don’t do overnights on Fri or Sat. I think that is pretty standard at universities.</p>
<p>And forgot the standard visit also includes meeting with the Barrett Dean and FA advisors, but we didn’t have time for that so can’t comment.</p>
<p>My DD has also received the invitation to visit Barrett but she is interested in studying linguistics and/or classical languages (esp. ancient Greek and Hebrew). On the ASU website I’m not seeing a strong major in either of these disciplines, but perhaps I’m missing something?</p>
<p>The Greek major is in Intl.Letters and Cultures as a Classics BA, can choose Latin or Greek:
<a href=“https://international.clas.asu.edu/node/1025[/url]”>https://international.clas.asu.edu/node/1025</a></p>
<p>Hebrew is in the Critical Languages Institute. For many of the languages at the institute they have summer programs where half the time is spent in the country, but for Hebrew the whole summer is spent in AZ, don’t know if it is a new program or why that is.
[HEBREW</a> | Critical Languages Institute](<a href=“http://cli.asu.edu/hebrew]HEBREW”>Hebrew | The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies)</p>
<p>Look in the ASU course catalog to check enrollment in these courses. I imagine they don’t have large numbers. Many students double major. Departments have different restrictions on how many credits in a 2nd major you need before you can declare, but entering freshmen choose one to start with, don’t begin as dbl major.</p>
<p>Also there seem to be programs in both modern and biblical Hebrew offered through the Intl. Letters and Cultures with a whole different set of Hebrew courses not listed in the Critical Lang. Inst. program.
<a href=“https://international.clas.asu.edu/about/classics-middle-eastern[/url]”>https://international.clas.asu.edu/about/classics-middle-eastern</a></p>
<p>At the undergrad level, linguistics is a concentration within the English major:
[Degree</a> Programs and Concentrations | Department of English](<a href=“http://english.clas.asu.edu/uprograms]Degree”>http://english.clas.asu.edu/uprograms)</p>
<p>They do have a graduate program in linguistics, also housed within English dept., not in a separate dept.</p>
<p>Thank you, celesteroberts! I had found the linguistics concentration, but it doesn’t allow ancient languages to be part of that concentration so she would have to double major, it seems. I missed the Critical Languages Institute when I was scanning the site. I’ll send this info to DD and see what she thinks 
.</p>
<p>mdcmom, I just happened across this today, not sure if this is of interest to you:</p>
<p>[B.A</a>. in Jewish Studies | SHPRS |](<a href=“http://jewishstudies.clas.asu.edu/major]B.A”>http://jewishstudies.clas.asu.edu/major)</p>
<p>It requires either modern or biblical Hebrew sequence as part of the major. Don’t knowanything about it at all, just browsing.</p>
<p>For all prospective students (and anyone, current students included, who can lend advice) — Here’s a Class of 2018 ASU Facebook page !!!</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/Class.of.2018.ASU/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/Class.of.2018.ASU/</a></p>
<p>Get ready… New Freshman are coming soon !!!</p>