<p>and ASUhopefull…how can a school be competitive at all if they have no standards whatsoever for general admitance?</p>
<p>You have some false information there and1baller753…</p>
<p>“The incoming freshmen class of 2007 numbered 677 with an average SAT of 1320 (math and verbal sections only), an average composite ACT of 29 and an unweighted GPA of 3.79.”</p>
<p>[Barrett</a>, The Honors College - Arizona State University](<a href=“http://honors.asu.edu/w-Incoming_Freshmen-215.aspx]Barrett”>http://honors.asu.edu/w-Incoming_Freshmen-215.aspx)</p>
<p>And thats 2007…it should be little bit higher i guess…
Well, i understand when you say honors college is not prestige…but i would rather go to honors college rather than georgetown. I mean…its georgetown…its ok…like 3000 miles away. if you want to get job locally i think it would be advantage to go to Barrett. Easy to get better grades and stuff. I would not pay like 50K a year to go to georgetown. </p>
<p>Also, U of A also has pretty much same admittance percentage as asy…any real difference? no, i dont think so. U of A is no better than asu, it depends on major.</p>
<p>haha no need to get feisty. and yes, your posts are insignificant, which you proved even more so by both stating false information and not reading the entire post. Earlier i said that Georgetown is probably a reach for me, and i clearly stated that I wanted to work in the phoenix area, and if ASU could net me decent internships/jobs in phoenix. and obviously you thought you going to u of a was relevant because you posted it.</p>
<p>and yes, Georgetown would be amazing, but even if i got in I’m not what I would do. Most of the people there majoring in finance go directly to wall street analyst jobs. Now, yes, that’d be great for future resume, but do I want three years of workin 70+ hour weeks, then grad school, then phoenix where I don’t know anyone, compared with going to ASU, securing a job there, soaking in great weather, and maybe going away for grad school, and coming back to home. That’s the decision I’m weighing, and that’s why I was posting here, to get an idea if ASU Honors is prestigious enough for what I want to do. And so far, with the responses and other discussions I’ve read, it seems like it definitely is.</p>
<p>Redsox, honestly you probably are one of the most reasonable people because you are considering Barrett. Your considering it because you see your future, and you want to get ahead, you are doing the smart thing believe me. The honors college is prestigious, and probably the most prestigious in the West. Smart choice you are making.</p>
<p>If you are a high school student you have no business making judgments concerning universities or their programs: you only see the statistics on websites and those are not particularly useful.</p>
<p>Barrett Honors is a fantastic program and I have been very satisfied with it. I was also in the W.P. Carey Academy as a freshman and still retain my involvement with the business school (I’ve since switched majors to history). W.P. Carey is a good business program, but the honors college is what really makes it great. Nearly every business organization is led by honors students, the top internships go to honors students, and honors students have exclusive access to smaller classes taught by the best professors in a given discipline. For a finance major, there’s the IBIS (Investment Banking Industry Scholars) program which is good preparation for the application process to competitive business careers (private equity, venture capital, investment banking) and provides a group of like-minded, highly motivated students from which you can learn. There is also the Undergraduate Investment Management Fund ([Investment</a> Management Fund - Finance - W. P. Carey School of Business](<a href=“http://wpcarey.asu.edu/fin/ug_imfund.cfm]Investment”>http://wpcarey.asu.edu/fin/ug_imfund.cfm)) which provides top students with the opportunity to run an investment portfolio.</p>
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<p>There are plenty of opportunities to meet with Phoenix business leaders and hold internships in nearly any area you wish (a friend of mine is the interim CFO at a 200 million dollar start-up). That said, it’s really up to you. Many students at ASU are not intelligent or ambitious enough to do great things, but if you seek out those students who are and the avenues for accessing the best opportunities, you can have a very good experience at ASU for a price that is far below anything comparable.</p>
<p>In comparison to Georgetown, I would say that if your goal is to work in the Northeast, Georgetown is the better choice, as it’s closer. If you want to work in Phoenix or the Southwest, having a degree from Barrett and W.P. Carey will serve you well.</p>
<p>A nice little post describing my decision and thoughts. Might warrant a “tl;dr”</p>
<p>I’ve decided to go to Barrett in the fall deciding between PolySci and business. For the purposes of CollegeConfidential, we are obviously only talking about the honors college. The name of the school does not matter much at all in the real world especially if one is considering grad school, just look at the schools of acceptance of Yale Law or any other. They have the ASUs, and numerous other state schools among the Georgetowns and Stanfords. The only thing important for grad school acceptance is not prestige of name, but GPA and LSAT, GMAT, etc score. I’ve also been subscribed to the Barrett email list for a few weeks and they offer great opportunities to the students in the form of internships, job opportunities, etc. </p>
<p>When deciding if I wanted to go to Barrett, I thought about the integration. FYI I’m an in-state senior and my family could have afforded to send me anywhere I was accepted, which included St. Olaf, Pitzer, University of Denver, Colorado College, U of A. Before seriously looking at college, I along with my friends thought that ASU was a terrible, party school but as I began looking seriously at options it makes a lot of sense to be a VIP at a massive school with good programs for very cheap. Also, the Dean is great; he gave a great speech at my high school. You are required to take 36 credit hours of honors classes plus write a thesis. The first year seems like it’ll be isolated among the Barrett kids mostly through the Human Event and other honors classes. Then, as one becomes an upperclassmen, the courses get much smaller as you take higher level classes.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the school is great and very cheap considering the brand new dorms and facilities that will be ready in the fall. Unlike being one of thousands at an Ivy-league, Barrett students are treated very well with special advisors and faculty with access to the very best ASU has to offer, which is a lot because of the sheer size. I’m guessing there will be a lot of integration with the normal students in classes but Barrett students get access to the best of everything.</p>
<p>I have a question regarding the non-honor students. Is ASU or U of A the better choice if your going to be a normal student?</p>
<p>U of A, is academically speaking a better school than ASU, but Tucson is not a very good location. U of A is smaller, though, and you might enjoy smaller classes. ASU is really big.</p>
<p>@ redsoxfan: A Georgetown degree is always very valuable. It will definitely impress Phoenix employers anyway. If it were between Georgetown and ASU I’d definitely choose Georgetown or NYU</p>
<p>michaelm, thanks for the post, though I’m not sure what a “tl;dr” means. Would you mind if I got in contact with you during your first semester next fall to talk about your experiences so far? Thanks.</p>