<p>Is anyone familiar with the DS program? How good of an honors program is it? Is it worth out of state tuition?</p>
<p>I hear it's a great honors program, but extremely selective. 35 students accepted each year if I'm not mistaken.</p>
<p>i think thats the class size. more probably get accepted. and i heard they were upping the class size to 50, but im not sure. anyhow, yeah, it is a good program, although im not sure if its worth it for OOS. possibly.</p>
<p>does anyone know if its good for premed as well?</p>
<p>patrick. totally worth it. what's your major? what other schools are you considering? there are ways to get an oos tuition wavier once you get here (e.g. reserach/work for 20 hrs per week, scholarships, etc)</p>
<p>tuke. it's extremely good for premed. the biggest group among the deans scholars' the pre-meds. you basically get to take the same honors classes together and hang out out of classes too. </p>
<p>the program's really close-knit in general. you also get priority registration with the grad schools, even ahead of the seniors. so you basically get all the classes you want.</p>
<p>currently there are 50 first-year deans scholars in the program. About 30 are freshmen (accepted right out of hs) and 20 are sophmores (applied their freshmen year and got accepted)</p>
<p>that is encouraging. i always considered it very difficult to get oos waiver once you started paying it. i've already been accepted to the program and will probably major in physics, though i've thought about neurobiology as well - who knows. i've been accepted to rice and am considering it strongly, and am also waiting to hear back from stanford, yale, and cornell this week. the fact that rice and ut are both not as expensive as most private schools is an imporant factor as well (i'm not getting any need based from anyone). thanks for helping!</p>
<p>p.s. are/were you a dean's scholar?</p>
<p>yes. i am a first-year ds right now, majoring in biochem/premed/plan ii. </p>
<p>i know quite a few ds friends who also got into some awsome schools (rice, cornell, mit, etc). and i really don't know anyone in ds who's regretting their decision. </p>
<p>Well anyways. it's still your decision. good luck</p>
<p>yy0712, is it required that to be in the deans program, that you have to have a BS natural science major? because i applied as a BA biochem (i figured a BA is an easier route through the hardships of premed rather than go for a BS in biochem).</p>
<p>hey tuke. i believe that you have to be in the college of natural sciences. i'll let you know when i find out for sure.</p>
<p>i know that part, but im wondering if you major has to be a BS natural sci degree. because i applied as a BA biochem. thanks</p>
<p>the only requirement is that your intended major be in the school of natural sciences. that opens up the option to apply to the program. i'm not sure if they look at your intended major, but on the form to reply back to the program, it has another space for intended major - there are specific degree plans for each major within the program, and i don't think any of them are BAs. So if you are accepted, you will probably be doing a BS.</p>
<p>alrite, thanks for the replay patrick. for a moment there, i thought id be an auto reject because my major was a BA and not a BS (i had looked at the deans site and noticed all the programs/majors were BS's).</p>