Honors program student here to answer questions

<p>sorry for the late response, and this is probably all very irrelevant right now. but for those still curious, I’ll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability.</p>

<p>zircushio: sebs is what used to be cook college on the cook campus. I believe the difference is that sebs and sas offer different majors, and if i’m not mistaken, different classes and school-specific programs. also, sebs is also a lot smaller than sas as there are less people enrolled. </p>

<p>letsvolley: the honors housing at rutgers, in my opinion is a lot better than regular. For instance, I live in jameson H on douglass and it’s considerably nicer and the rooms are significantly larger than the rooms in katzenbach or lippincott, where other freshman in DRC reside. mccormick is also nicer than say davidson or any of the BAMM dorms. not too sure about how brett compares to say the other College ave dorms (sorry, not too familiar with which dorms are for frosh), but brett hall is very nice. </p>

<p>and as they say at scholars day, you can be as involved in the honors program as you’d like. so at the bare minimum, you’d be taking 1 honors course per school year and two colliquia before the end of your sophomore year. it’s really not too bad, and the honors course I took, I very much enjoyed. and since the class was significantly smaller, I am now able to ask that professor (who is the director of undergraduate communication studies) for recommendations for scholarships, and she is glad to oblige. the workload is not too bad; it is of course more in-depth than a regular course, but it is very manageable and the level of difficulty varies from course to course, professor to professor. </p>

<p>emag: I’m not too sure on the reputation of the hp after graduation, but I can assure you that it cannot hurt. to prospective employers, it will definitely separate you from other rutgers grads who were not in the hp, and probably put you on par with prospective applicants who went to considerably more competitive schools. </p>

<p>questionss: i don’t know where the honors pharm kids dorm, sorry. probably mccormick or something.</p>

<p>yournamehere: you don’t have to live in an honors dorm. you can still take regular classes with all the ‘regular’ kids. class sizes range from 500 to 20-30. depends on the class. intro lectures are about 400-300 but language classes are usually about 20 - 30 and english classes are like 100. expos is about 20-30, and so are smaller english classes. honors program: you get better housing choices, and a higher chance of getting the housing that you actually want. you get a wider selection of courses you want to take in smaller classes with professors who actually know your name and can write recommendations for you. you get closer advising from deans, who will actually remember you and write recs for you. and just the privilege of being in the honors program. being in the honors program is a pretty big deal since you are the brightest in a school of about 40,000. you represent about a tenth of that number.</p>

<p>clever_name: you don’t have to live on campus.</p>

<p>@questionss: There is no honors program for freshman pharmacy students. You can get in the honors program anytime afterwards, as long as you have at least a 3.5 GPA.</p>

<p><a href=“http://pharmacy.rutgers.edu/files/Honors%20update.pdf[/url]”>http://pharmacy.rutgers.edu/files/Honors%20update.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I plan to apply to honors program next year…do I need to take foreign language in order to get in?</p>

<p>i’m also happy to answer your questions if you still have any. from what i recall you dont need a foreign language to get into honors, it was mostly about numbers (SAT, GPA). but i would still make sure.</p>

<p>Around what SAT & GPA do you need to get accepted into the Honors program?</p>

<p>the problem is there is no exact answer to that. at least when i applied, these two things are considered together. one of them being low can offset the other. i was in top 20% of my graduating class and my GPA was above 1500 on the old-style SAT</p>

<p>you do not need a foreign language to get into the hp, but they’ve changed the hp requirements so that you need to take a foreign language. look here: [The</a> School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program - Foreign Language Requirement](<a href=“SAS Honors Program | Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences”>http://www.sashonors.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=336&Itemid=111) this is being implemented for the class of 2013. </p>

<p>SAT: more than 1350, CR > 600, and top 10%. there have been cases, though, where some people haven’t met the 10% cutoff and have been offered admission to the HP. this is when extracurrics and that scholarship essay are noticed.</p>

<p>Wow, I completely forgot about this thread. I’m so sorry!</p>

<p>If anyone else has any questions, let me know.</p>

<p>if your going to rutgers as a freshmen as a regular student , is it possible to get into the honors program in your sophomore year ?</p>

<p>yess, it is very possible to transfer into the program. you need to have around a 3.75 to get in, i believe. of course, it doesn’t hurt to try. best of luck!</p>

<p>Yea, it’s possible! I just did it and I’ll be a sophomore in the fall. The GPA req is above 3.700. More info is here [The</a> School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program - Admission](<a href=“SAS Honors Program | Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences”>SAS Honors Program | Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences)</p>

<p>I’m an incoming freshman for the school of engineering in the year os 2009-2010. I accepted admission to rutgers after the due date of the appication for the honors program was due. They had sent me a letter stating that was eligible even when i had a 590 reading (but my math is 800, SAT II math II=800 and chem = 800).</p>

<p>Also I have been already offfered 22 college credits for my major through AP Test credits and will take multivariable calculus for math/phys and Analytical Physics IIA in my freshman year. </p>

<p>Is there any way possible that I can somehow still apply for the honors program or have I lost my chance. =/</p>

<p>cutlets: hmm just apply again next year like colboy above did.</p>

<p>Apply again? I didn’t get to apply cause I accepted admission to rutgers after the honors application was due o.o </p>

<p>So there’s no way of getting in honors before school starts in the fall?</p>

<p>Dean Rankin is super nice; you can always try calling in the RU Engineering Office of Academic Affairs and asking about it.</p>

<p>My friend visited in person even though he missed the deadline, and he got in. That was in June…but you can try.</p>

<p>I e-mailed Dean Rankin and another Dean about it back in May. I NEVER got a reply back from either of them. =/</p>

<p>Don’t e-mail. He is apparently super bad with e-mail. calling his office is the best way to go.</p>