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<p>He’s picking graduate electives for now. I think that he would like to take some of the core courses (for fun) but some of the electives have good value in industry; some good value in industry and research. He had a research position lined up for the fall but funding fell through in October. We’re working on lining something up for next summer right now. The area is Computer Science and the environment is nice both for grad school or for going straight into industry.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice thus far, and to reiterate I don’t really blame the policies or advisors for my own problem, but I do think it would benefit later students whose situation is more borderline than mine if they were more clear with both (aka, don’t have the honors advisors emphasize doing study abroad without first informing them of what the consequences will be).</p>
<p>Honors has never been a big part of college, but I met some of the greatest people in honors housing. Because my future career isn’t necessarily known for its extremely challenging preparation and prestige (teaching), perhaps I consider little things like GPA and honors as proving I could do something more if I desired to, I don’t know. I also am thinking of at some point going to law school after teaching for a while, so I will need to get that GPA up :/.</p>
<p>I should investigate about how DD’s scholarship is tied to honors. If she cannot keep up the GPA and cannot stay in honors, does she also lose the money. It’s doesn’t really state clearly in my information - or I am not looking hard enough.</p>
<p>I have nieces and nephews (plus my own kids) in honors colleges/programs across this country (Wm&Mary, Tulane, UNC-CH, UCI, USC, AzSt, etc). None of them think the honors classes are “harder” or are more “demanding.” The honors classes are usually more interesting and the kids often learn more simply because the classes are smaller, are often taught by the best profs, and all consist of high stats kids.</p>
<p>I’m in my university’s honors program and am required to stay in it to keep my (full tuition plus) scholarship, but otherwise, I don’t think it’s really worth it, IMO. We’re required to take 7 honors class and do an honors thesis/project (but I’m doing three theses as is, so, eh.) and maintain a 3.5 to graduate as “university scholars.” It’s given me some nice TAing and leadership opportunities, and I really like some of the individual HC faculty and staff, but I wouldn’t say it’s done much for me that IK couldn’t have done as a dedicated, driven “regular” student."</p>
<p>I don’t know about your specific situation but decades ago I didn’t maintain a high enough freshman GPA to stay in the honors program at my state university, so I was dropped from it. I didn’t have a scholarship so that was not an issue, and it made no difference to my ability to get into the classes I wanted the next three years and I graduated with honors in my major. (I think the best thing about being in the honors program was that I got out of basic freshman comp and into honors English; subsequent years weren’t going to be as worthwhile in that regard anyway.) So I would not worry about not having a 3.5 at this point–just do your best and keep the grades up as high as possible.</p>
<p>OP - Well I had a perfect comment for you, but APOL stole it!!! (See post #8.)</p>
<p>BTW, my D called me two weeks ago and asked “I can either take a course I don’t want and stay in Honors, or take courses I want and get dropped from Honors … what should I do?” That’s about as easy a question as a parent gets. Fact is, once you get your first job NOBODY cares if you were Honors or not.</p>