<p>i was looking at the school calendar and it looks like the only break they have at all is spring break. is that really the case??</p>
<p>my DD kind needs to visit again … and this friday she has off …</p>
<p>usually, there is no school on Good Friday…for awards day. but, this year, honors day is next week. I was thinking it was this week.</p>
<p>so is that a yes or a no?</p>
<p>honors week is next week.</p>
<p>so honors day is a day off from school?</p>
<p>We get honors day off. We have school this Friday. I don’t, but I don’t take Friday classes.</p>
<p>seatide - so the only breaks in the spring semester are spring break and honors day?</p>
<p>I think kids get MLK birthday off, too. </p>
<p>Honors day isn’t really a break if your child is getting an award that day or is getting inducted into an honor society.</p>
<p>We do get MLK day off, but that, spring break, and honors day are all we get off. m2ck is correct about honors day being somewhat busy, but it’s not the same as having a full day of classes/tests.</p>
<p>Besides, depending on how your child schedules classes, he or she can take a particular day off during the semester. For example, students in the business school often do not have Friday classes. Next fall, my son scheduled his classes so that he had Mondays and Fridays off (and he’s not a business major, either.)</p>
<p>mondays and fridays off! a four day weekend EVERY WEEK! SCHWEET!!</p>
<p>mike, why the extra visit? just curious 
something new come up?</p>
<p>I would be very careful about scheduling all classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays unless it was going to be a light semester. You can end up with many tests on the same day. Stressful and exhausting.</p>
<p>Three and four day weekends are very nice to have. I’d be fine too if classes were either MW or TR, no MWF classes. Momreads, isn’t your son almost a business major except that that major doesn’t have to be through the business school? Either way, long weekends are awesome. Taking an online class can help ease one’s schedule and it seems they removed the blocks for online classes for next semester.</p>
<p>Sea-tide: One of his majors, economics, could go through the business school, but you are correct. He chose to stay in arts & sciences. Online classes are awesome (we offer several AP and non-AP at my son’s HS), if a student can budget the time that is needed for the online class. I say that, because I have seen some students believe they are easy, choose to blow off the importance of assignments and finish with low grades.</p>
<p>AL34 - my DD hasn’t completely decided on UA. she has UA and one other school that she is choosing between. we visited in the summer when there were few (or no) students around. we also didn’t get the royal honors college treatment, so our view of UA isn’t as rosy as some others’.</p>
<p>my DD does not have a full tuition scholarship (she has UA scholars - 2/3 OOS tuition covered), so the choice is not as obvious to us.</p>
<p>if a second visit is what it takes to decide, then that is what we should do.</p>
<p>: )</p>
<p>I definitely am all for checking out every option before you (both) decide. Our only visit was during University Days so we also did not get the full-on Honors treatment, I think this is why the final decision is not as crystal-clear for us as it is for some… you’re left trying to compare websites and canvassing students/parents to help with the decision - I know how that goes.</p>
<p>Please let us know how your visit goes!</p>
<p>Mike…</p>
<p>Are you contacting Jami Gates to have her set up your visit?</p>
<p>I think that if you don’t have honors set up your day, you just get the basic campus visit (which is what we had).</p>
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<p>What a surprise.</p>
<p>^^^We use Fridays for “networking.” Otherwise it is a good day to do errands and take proctored exams for online classes. momreads is very correct though that it can be difficult to remember to budget time for one’s online classes.</p>
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<p>Oh, is that what the kids are calling it these days? ;)</p>