<p>We are planning to go see the Honors College in Jupiter, but I am trying to get a better understanding of how things are set up there.</p>
<p>From what I understand, the HC is on the Jupiter campus, and the Jupiter Campus also houses the Charles Schmidt College of science and the Max Planck Institute.</p>
<p>My Daughter is very interested in neuroscience, and in the smaller environment that the Honors college would offer (as compared to large state U campuses), but at FAU Jupiter---what school, and what classes she'd attend seems unclear to me. </p>
<p>If you go to the Honors college, would you also be attending courses through the science college (It seems that is where there is a neuro major.)? </p>
<p>How do these three places interact (Max Planck, Honors College, Schmidt College of Science)?</p>
<p>Something else I saw on the website made me think that the Jupiter campus might be more geared toward students who commute from the local area, but the HC seems very self contained. </p>
<p>Can anyone help clarify some of this for me?</p>
<p>My son is a freshman at the honors college at Jupiter. The only freshmen on the campus are at the honors college. The students at the other schools on the campus are juniors and seniors who normally completed their first two years at the main campus. Most of the students are from the South Florida area, however my son is from Tallahassee.</p>
<p>Futuredocmom,
So do the students at the Honors college start taking courses through the Charles Schmidt College of science during their Junior/senior years or do that complete all of their courses only through the honors college? My D is very interested in the sciences and it seems it could be very useful to have a science college right there.
From your name, it sounds like your son is premed. I know he’s just getting started there, but was he able to get the courses he wanted? I’d love to hear more about what made your son choose FAU’s honors college.</p>
<p>I think that the honors college students take all of their classes at the honors college. I know that the majority of their credits do need to be from the honors college. At this time, my son is kind of undecided. He is currently thinking psychology but that could change tomorrow. The advisors do work with the students to make sure that they get the classes that they need. The students at the honors college do receive at lot more one on one advising than most college students. My son applied to FAU and was invited to apply to the honors college. He likes the small campus atmosphere.</p>
<p>I am a current student and can answer your questions. </p>
<p>All honors college students starting your freshman year must take 80% Honors cCollege course, so almost all of your students courses will be on the Jupiter campus within the Honors College. We have residential hall on campus which house around 300 students (freshman to seniors). Here you do not need to worry about not getting the courses you need in the science paths because they are all offered on a yearly basis, and if any courses (science/non-science) fill up professors will lift the enrollment cap to allow more students as long as there are seats in the room. While we do have a decent number of students from the South Florida area, people do come from different areas. I am from around Central Florida. As far as Max Planck and Scripps, a large portion of our science students have jobs or internships at either of the institutes by the end of their sophomore year if they seek a position out. Currently, in the area my lab is in at Scripps, there are at least 8-10 other fellow HC science major students. That is just one half of a floor in a single building at Scripps, so many of the students do work with the Institutes to fulfill their internship/research/thesis requirement. </p>