<p>Just wondering how folks find Barrett Honor’s College? In particular, how does it compare with UA’s Honor’s College? Have read that some folks have trouble keeping their GPAs at 3.5+ & have to petition to keep merit aid awards or lose them & have to pay full freight. Feedback would be helpful. We are seriously considering ASU.</p>
<p>My daughter is in the Honors College at ASU they have recently lowered there Gpa for staying in the Honors College to a 3.25 and are taking away the community service agreement for out of state merit scholars. Also about the Gpa's last year my daughters freshmen year they implemented a plus minus system and this has other issues some teachers use it others do not.</p>
<p>Is your daughter happy in the ASU honor's college? My son is considering it--he would be out of state & probably studying science and/or engineering.</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on the plus minus system? I'm not familiar with that & its implications on a student keeping his/her scholarship. Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter is happy with ASU and the honors College. It is a huge school and the best advantage is you get your classes. The only students during pre-registration that go before an honors students are athletes. She always gets the schedule she wants. She as a first semester freshmen went to class the first day and there were 20 extra students all jrs and seniors trying to get an over ride into the class from the professor but were turned away. The class only had 25 in it. </p>
<p>About the plus minuns, you could get an A+ in one class and A- in another and your GPA would be 4.0 so it can help with keeping the scholarship. I think that it is 3.5 for out of state students its only 3.25 for in state students.
The honors Collge up until this year was a 3.4 to graduate but now is a 3.25, but to stay in it its a different gpa per how many credits they have.</p>
<p>Thanks ASU mom. Did your daughter consider UA Honor's College as well? What were the pros & cons of each school that helped her choose ASU instead of UA? Our son is a NMSF & we're encouraging him to consider UA & ASU Honor's College. He likes math, science & computers & may try engineering, CS, or some science like physics.
Thanks for any insights you can share.</p>
<p>HImom, My daughter is a journalism major pre law and poli-sci. So that is why she choose Asu the Walter Cronkite school of journalism is better then UA's program. We live in state she received a basically the same scholarship at each. We needed the free under-grad so she can spend her college fund going out of state for law school.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your son National Merit both schools offer great scholarships for him and will wine and dine him. Has he been out here to see them? He should see them. They both offer a little different surroundings. My daughter has friends at UA and has gone down for weekends and still says she choose wisely. There's not as much to do around there but thats good for some kids. ASU is close to alot more to do within walking distance to alot of food, movie theater, shopping and of coarse bars. It is known to be a "party school" my daughter isn't into that. Her friends at UA say all there is to do is go to a party.</p>
<p>The honors College at ASU has been tougher to get into in the past but I think UA is changing the way they do it this year and also will have essay's and recomendations this year. Your son won't have any problem getting in at either progam. They love saying which school has the most NM scholars. So they do compete for them.</p>
<p>UA has a better reputation in some of the areas your son is interested in. But I've heard the engineering program is better at ASU. Good luck in your decision. We also have a senior this year trying to decide from the 2. She is more of an average student and doesn't know what she wants to be so it's been a little tougher for us this time.</p>
<p>My son was recruited by the ASU BHC with a scholarship. He is in his second year of Biochemistry and lives at the Honors dorms. ASU has been a great school for him.<br>
He was invited to both UA & ASU and after visiting both schools he chose ASU. The Honors College at UA, (2 years ago) seem to be matter of grades and scores and we didn't get the feeling of a real strong academic community. After touring the schools, talking with students in the program, and visiting with the Deans of both Honors colleges my son decided for ASU. </p>
<p>We feel that living in the Honors dorm with other Honor students has been a major plus,as well as the pre-registration benefits, the easy access to the Dean and teachers and the tied community of teachers-students-parents. Just figure Ive never had smoothies provided by the parents during final exams or had a similar event as the Softball Barret Cup (honors students, honors parents, honors alumni and honors college faculty/staff teams). The Dean is very pro-active in the students affairs and is implementing positive changes for BHC. Yes, the GPA requirement for scholarships is now 3.25. </p>
<p>Aside from the academic challenges, my son has learned to maintain a good balance between the academic load and the social activities. He loves the school, the weather (we are from the northwest), has made great friends and still has his scholarship. He spent last summer doing research at a National Laboratory with Department of Energy and is still planing to apply to medical school.</p>
<p>How well-run is the ASU Business Administration program? My top three schools are:
SDSU
ASU
USC (University of South Carolina)</p>
<p>I just sent in applications for all three, and have to get my high school to send my transcripts tomorrow.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman in the ASU honors college right now. it's not a bad setup; I'd much rather be in it than not.</p>
<p>all freshmen have to take an honors seminar called The Human Event. it's a very cool course that's a mixture of philosophy, literature and history. my professor defines it as 'a history of ideas'. </p>
<p>ASU is a good school in that there's something for everyone - you can party hard if you want, you can join a bible study, you can hang out with engineers and kill yourselves studying, whatever. you'll find something.</p>
<p>U of A has a prettier campus, there's some construction going on at ASU right now, but there's so much more to do in Tempe than in Tucson.</p>
<p>Yeah, I visited ASU this summer along with SDSU. I just recently visited USC. How do some people party hard and still maintain grades in college? I mean it seems like a pretty hard task to me. Maybe not, though. :)</p>
<p>I noticed that there is one street (forgot the name) that everyone seems to go to...do they let students in at the bars and stuff or do they get away with fake id's? Or are house parties/frats a lot better? I heard, though, that frats at ASU are being controlled more due to an incident occuring a year or so ago. Oh, and other than that one street, what is there to do in Tempe? It seems cool, but I'm not sure what else you would do.</p>
<p>I really want to work in baseball, so I want to get an internship in college. If I go to ASU, I want to get an internship with the D-Backs.</p>
<p>Also, how are the dorms at ASU? I heard they're pretty bad. What dorms would you recommend for freshman year?</p>
<p>Mill Avenue is the street you're thinking of.
it's kind of overrated when you're poor and/or underage (lots of bars), but I still get a kick out of people-watching.</p>
<p>aside from movies and thrift store shopping, I like going to concerts. bands definitely come to Tempe/Phoenix more than Tucson, and there's a big all-ages venue a couple miles north on Mill that a lot of bands visit.
in downtown Phoenix they have little art galleries that double as venues for bands to play at, too. they also do a big art walk every month (First Fridays).</p>
<p>if you're into outdoorsy stuff then you can easily go hiking or camping, or two hours north to go skiing/snowboarding in Flagstaff. people here are really into taking care of their bodies, to the point where it's obnoxiously vain sometimes.</p>
<p>Tempe is really cracking down on fakes, including if you use someone else's ID (false identity is a misdemeanor I think). you don't want to try using a fake at any of the bars near ASU, or in some of the places in Scottsdale either. apparently there's ghetto liquor stores around that don't care so much, but I haven't tested this.</p>
<p>I'm not in the greek scene at all (the sororities here are barbie central) so I dunno how the frat parties are really, but there's still plenty of house parties around. it's not hard to find a party.</p>
<p>hope that helps dude.</p>
<p>Hi There,</p>
<p>I have a junior who is interested in the Honors Program at both ASU and UA. She is leaning towards architecture. Any input on the programs at each school would be appreciated. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Son has submitted his ap for ASU & will be also applying to UAz....soon (he says). Not sure why he's dragging his feet, other than to aggravate me. <grin> Anyway, he seems to have gotten most of his other aps in, so I'm grateful for that.<br>
I've heard some good things about both schools, mostly from engineering majors in the honor's college. Both give nice merit aid for NMFs.</grin></p>
<p>Here is a thread for the Barrett Honors College</p>
<p>Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University -</p>
<p>The Barrett Honors College is featured in the Reader's Digest "Best in America" publication in print this week and online at <a href="http://www.rd.com%5B/url%5D">www.rd.com</a>. This is very exciting news! Please visit the site, click on "Arizona" and read about our college! For more information about the award please also visit the ASU website at <a href="http://asu.edu%5B/url%5D">http://asu.edu</a> .</p>
<p>National Merit Finalist Scholarship
National Achievement Finalist Scholarship
National Hispanic Finalist Scholarship </p>
<p>Residents:
$12,500 annual award renewable for three additional years provided you satisfy Renewal Criteria.
$50,000 total four-year value.
Nonresidents:
$21,500 annual award renewable for three additional years provided you satisfy Renewal Criteria.
$86,000 total four-year value.
If you are sponsored by a corporation, corporate sponsored funds are already included in the total award offered by ASU.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for housing for an honors student who likes science, math, computers, politics, current events & history? He's thinking of going into engineering or sciences, but not sure at this point. He's a NMF from HI.</p>
<p>Just got off the phone with the Barrett Honors College. The woman I spoke with was very nice & had me leave a voice-mail for the man who recruits for BHC, so I can ask him some questions on behalf of my son (who is out of the country at the moment).</p>
<p>You will find out the all the office staff, professors and Dean almost go out of their way to ensure we have all the information needed to make the decision. I recall Dr Jacobs, Honors College Dean, hosted a breakfast in Seattle and various other cities to meet with the prospective students and their families, give a personal presentation of the college and answer the questions we had. It was a very relaxed and personal meeting. My son has met with Dr Jacobs in a couple of occasions to talk about school and get his advice on school matters and internship decisions. The Dean is available to the students and families without major hurdles and is always really positive and excited about the future of the kids.</p>
<p>My son is in his second year at the Honors College. The first year he lived at Hayden south? by Apache street. They have a little more privacy there due to the configuration of the room; there is a wall 2/3rds of the way, between the two beds. It is good because the kids are nont facing each other, but it does take space away. This year he is at Hayden East or West (not sure.) They have more space there but there is no wall, so the two beds and dressers are sharing the room space and thy can re-arrenge them as they please.</p>
<p>The new building for the Honors dorm will be opening in fall of 2007. I was reading about and is going to be a residential complex/village with classrooms, cafeteria where the professors will eat with the kids, learning resources, computer and writing labs, leture halls, shops, and all kinds nice staff for the kids.</p>