<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>UMich is one of my top choices. I was admitted into the Honors Program. I'm most likely going to major in biology and go down the pre-med track or something else along those lines. However, I know that honor students must take at least 2 honor classes per semester. I've heard from some people that this is somewhat of a hindrance, especially for science majors? Can anyone verify this, or do most science majors get along just fine?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Ha, anyone?</p>
<p>you are required to take some intensive courses in the honors program but there isn't really a big hindrance for you can choose which classes to do honors in.</p>
<p>Join the honors college. It gives you a lot of extra opportunities, and it doesn't really matter if you end up not meeting the requirements and get kicked out.</p>
<p>Benefits:
Honors housing (both better location, and are surrounded by relatively more capable/motivated students)
Great Books (it goes towards first year writing and distribution for humanities, whereas pretty much everybody else has to do a class that just counts for first year writing)
Special trips, events, discussions with famous people (that are completely optional if none of that crap interests you)
Better advising (they recognize you as capable, and more likely to support you in anything you might want to try)</p>
<p>Detriments:
If you don't feel like meeting the requirements, you just don't bother meeting those requirements, and you might get a letter at the end of sophomore year saying you're not in Honors college anymore. You will have already taken Great Books, and spent one or two years in the dorms with Honors housing (most people move off-campus after sophomore year, anyways). In every other way, you'll be in the same position as if you'd never joined. You can even still graduate with honors, as doing an honors concentration is independent of the honors college, which is really mainly for underclassmen.</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken, all Honors housing at UM is substance-free. That could be good or bad.</p>
<p>I don't know if that is true or not. It seemed like a lot of the kids in honors housing were crazy.</p>