<p>How hard is this to get into? BU is a target/safety for me, and if i get into their honors program it’d definitely be hard to turn it down. is it difficult to get into? and do you really just check a box on the common app to be considered for it?</p>
<p>It’s a new program this year, so I’m not sure how hard it is to get into now. The old CAS honors program took the top 10% of admitted applicants. If it’s like the old program in terms of the application, there are no additional steps you need to take to apply.</p>
<p>The old program was also totally pointless. You just needed to take 4 classes over your first two years which were “honors” sections, which typically had no substantive difference from the non-honors sections. Also, the classes needed to be spread across at least two departments and there were limited choices, so it could be quite restricting in terms of building a good schedule.</p>
<p>The only benefits I’m aware of are that professors teach the classes rather than PhD students and you get an annotation on your transcript that says something like “Awarded College Honors May 2010” or something.</p>
<p>But it shouldn’t make you choose BU over any other school, especially if it’s a safety, unless BU is throwing you serious money.</p>
<p>The new program is totally different than the old one though. I agree that the old one was lame and that the only benefit was the profs teaching sections instead of TFs (PhD students don’t teach lectures at BU, they only TF for classes taught by profs). The benefits of hte new program are much better…you can take classes in any of the schools (not just CAS, for example) and the program is supposed to be cooperational…so you can kind of design your own degree and track.</p>
<p>That’s not accurate; some courses are taught entirely by PhD students.</p>
<p>I don’t know of any besides language courses.</p>