<p>Hey everyone, I am not actually new here but had to make a new username because I forgot my old one and the email doesn't work. Anyways...............</p>
<p>I am in the honors program at my school, but have yet to take any honors classes. I am supposed to graduate in spring 2010, and was trying to see if it is worth it to try and graduate on the honors program. </p>
<p>I would have to take 15hrs of honors, but two classes (6hrs) of them are an independent study and a thesis class which do not actually meet. So my choices are to try and take the five honors classes within the next two semesters (not offered during the summer), possibly strain myself and get a lower GPA, but graduate in the honors program; OR just forget about it, take a few more electives in my major or other classes that may boost my GPA. </p>
<p>I am leaning towards not taking the honors classes, they seem like a lot of stress and not particularly applicable to my major. Plus, I can still put that I was in the honors program down on my resume, I just didn't graduate in the program.</p>
<p>Thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions?</p>
<p>I think a higher GPA looks better than being in an honors program any day. Besides, you said that you can put it down without having to have graduated from the program. I think you answered your own question in your last statements.</p>
<p>I don’t see the point of honors programs honestly. You get slightly more work in a few classes, many of which are electives anyways. My friends who have done honors can’t always take the classes they want because there isn’t an honors section and they need a certain number of honors credits.</p>
<p>Oh ugh, I did the honors program at my school and it was totally worthless. I actually dropped it second semester of senior year, even though I did the thesis. At my school honors classes were not exclusive to honors students, and my transcript looks exactly the same as a non-honors student who wanted to take those classes. And there were no honors classes in my major besides General Psychology, which didn’t count towards the major anyway! You had to take the two-semester Gen Psych for Majors.</p>
<p>The only things that made it worth it were the free overloads (taking over 18 credits for no extra expense) and some funding for visiting conferences to present research, which you could probably get from your department if you wanted to. Honestly, a higher GPA is much more important than participation in the honors program.</p>
<p>Awesome, just the answer I was looking for. I was having a hard time trying to work these honors classes into my schedule, since they are all offered at only one time, so now I have some flexibility to take other classes that I’m actually interested in!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>