Honors and PEERs at UCLA

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<p>I know these are two different things but I didn't want to make two threads. </p>

<p>So, my questions are: </p>

<p>Is it worth it to apply for the honors program? </p>

<p>and </p>

<p>Is it worth it to apply for PEERS? </p>

<p>And why? You can tell me some of the benefits or preferably your own personal experience with how either of these programs have helped you (or not ). </p>

<p>P.S. So for that interdisciplinary project question for the honors program...how do they expect us to answer that? Like is this a "fun" project (something that might not seem that important on a wide scale and might seem silly or pointless to the people judging these applications but still interesting to you), a research project (like finding the cure for something or something more wide scale that's kind of important o_o), or like a charity project to raise money for an organization using two disciplines... I'm sorry if this is a dumb question I just don't know how to answer it, especially since I haven't started any research at UCLA. </p>

<p>Thank you for your input :)</p>

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<p>Hi, I just graduated ucla in physci this June and going to med school (just want to give background and cred to what I say - nothing else). I wasn’t in the honors or PEERS so I can’t comment on those well. </p>

<p>My friend was in honors and from what I heard from him:
cons

  • 1-2hrs/week more coursework per honors class taken
  • doesn’t really help that much on resume (hopefully ur not joinging just for that)</p>

<p>benefits

  • more chance to meet the prof
  • I him mention there’s a peer mentoring system</p>

<p>I would highly recommend looking into the below organizations too:
ucla biomedical minor
CURE at ucla</p>

<p>I didn’t apply to honors so I can’t comment on the prompt. </p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>