<p>In response to Illinifans, I'm in general engineering and do admit that without AP credits, it would be difficult to graduate in 4 years while taking CHP courses. With that said, you have 8 semesters to take 4 (3) hours courses and 1 seminar course which can be replaced by a study abroad, etc. With AP credits, especially since many CHP students have many, it should be very doable and worth it. The CHP courses themselves vary greatly in difficulty. There are usually about 20 courses per semester. They definitely don't advertise this, but in my opinion, at least half if not more, will be by far the easiest classes that your daughter takes on campus. Therefore, taking a heavy load plus a CHP class (if she chooses an interesting but work-light CHP class) is no problem at all. I would recommend architecture, the Japanese class, and other similar classes where there are usually very few projects and no tests. Most classes never have finals or much work in general, although if you are seeking a challenge, there are more difficult CHP classes, but I still think that the grading in all is very easy. Pretty much everyone gets As.</p>
<p>I would definitely recommend doing both the James Scholar & Chancellor Scholar for a few reasons. 1) All CHP classes count towards your James Scholar requirements, so you don't have to take courses to fulfill both. 2) The James Scholar program is slightly different because it allows you to adapt classes that you're already taking and make them James Scholar classes, rather than taking a whole new one, but I still think the prestige of CHP overrules any inconveniences. Plus, I really enjoy the small class sizes in CHP. Classes are usually only 14 + a real professor.</p>
<p>Therefore, in also responding to RhapsodyinPink, I don't know what a Cohn scholar is but James Scholar and CHP coordinate perfectly, so by taking CHP courses, you are fulfilling all of your James Scholar class requirements for that semester as well.</p>