Do honor programs/classes help chances?

Transfer Students
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<p>My dream school is USC, and I plan on applying after this Fall quarter.</p>

<p>My CC has an "Honors Scholar" program (which also fulfills TAP requirements), where you have to take 6 Honors courses with a B or better, and have a minimum 3.5 GPA. Would taking honor programs/classes help my chances? Or should I just take normal classes and get a good GPA? I would probably get a higher GPA with normal classes, though I never know haha.</p>

<p>I've already decided that UCLA isn't for me, so the TAP completion wouldn't be useful to me, but I don't know if schools really care about WHAT classes you take, rather than just what GPA you have.</p>

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<p>jsw1188, I’d recommend you take as many honors courses as possible.</p>

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<p>If its an Honors Scholar’s program, then usually there are great financial benefits. I would totally do it cause many times its something along the lines of half tuition or paid room and boarding - something like that…</p>