<p>Hi, I'm a freshmen in Cockrell and I'm not in Honors right now. I wish to know how I can enter honors program. According to the website here (Engineering</a> Honors Program), does it says that after the first year Cockrell will automatically invite those meeting the criteria?</p>
<p>Another thing that I'd like to ask is, what are the advantages you get by being in the honors program?</p>
<p>I know your a ChemE, but honestly their is no advantages.</p>
<p>^No? So what’s the point of having an honors program? XD</p>
<p>iambored, can you expound please? I, too, am trying to understand the engineering honors program – advantages and disadvantages.</p>
<p>I’m an EHP student in EE. The few classes that have special honors sections are intro to circuits, calculus, possibly physics? Aside from these couple classes, you will take all the same classes as the non-EHP EEs. If you get “invited” after your first year, you will presumably take all these classes anyway so by the time you are in EHP, there is virtually no difference in degree programs. The other “benefits” are virtually non-existent.</p>
<p>^ That was my experience in EHP in Arch E, 30 years ago! I’m kind of surprised they haven’t improved the program. I didn’t think the Honors Physics prof was very good (he’s still there - I saw him while on the parents’ orientation tour last June!).</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t EHP students receive more scholarship $$…at least, that is how it is positioned on their website. Under the list of “advantages” the first two listed are:</p>
<p>■Engineering Honors Scholarships
■Access to honors housing</p>
<p>Then they go on to list things like research opportunities and social events, etc.</p>
<p>But it sounds like every EHP student receives a scholarship. Can anyone speak to that?</p>
<p>well, i think the criteria for being awarded a scholarship and being invited to honors are pretty much the same (mostly SAT/GPA) - so most honors people will also get scholarships. I havent heard of any “honors” scholarships.</p>
<p>my yearly scholarship from the school of engineering was unchanged after getting into the honors program after my first year.</p>
<p>I’m a freshman right now in ME honors, and besides the option of having some honors lower division courses (which really aren’t much different from the regular sections in terms of material), I think the three main benefits are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Honors thesis option</li>
<li>Access to the ABC dorms (which is actually a pretty convenient location for everything in general and most of your engineering classes, especially for BME majors)</li>
<li>Occasional socials/free food (I’ve only had one ice cream social so far though)</li>
</ol>
<p>From what I have been told, if you’re planning on going to grad school, a thesis is practically a requirement to be competitive for admission to top grad schools.</p>
<p>Also, I think something like the top 10% in the school of engineering are in the EHP program (or at least invited to it), so if your parents are the type that like to brag to everyone about you, this is definitely one more thing they can talk about.</p>
<p>The honors thesis option is new, so that’s interesting. I guess we did have a couple of free food events! I lived in a private dorm, but I don’t think we had the honors dorm option, anyway.</p>
<p>is the GPA requirement for honors still a 3.5?</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, I think you need to maintain a 3.5+ to not get kicked out. I also remember that during orientation, the EHP director mentioned that the program had ~600 students, which is roughly ~10% of the total number of engineering undergrads.</p>
<p>I mentioned the free food benefits in jest, but if you’re seriously into free food, you should check out the Dean’s Scholars program. I have several friends in it and they get free luncheons nearly every week and a bunch of fancy schmancy dinners over the course of the year.</p>
<p>3.5 is pretty difficult to get BTW.</p>
<p>^ That’s the GPA my son needs to maintain to get the second half of his engineering scholarship this spring. I’m thankful the amount isn’t very large, because I don’t see how he will be able to get that his first semester.</p>
<p>So, does every EHP student received a scholarship?</p>
<p>No, not every EHP student receives a scholarship.</p>