<p>I'm just looking for a bit more of an in-depth look at the honors program than what is on the site. Pros and cons, personal experiences, and all that jazz. </p>
<p>And just a couple of things I'm specifically curious about: how hard is it to get in, and what's the work load like?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Pretty useless. You can’t graduate with honors unless you do honors within a specific department (write a thesis).</p>
<p>Guarantees you South Quad though, eliminating the chance of winding up on awful north campus.</p>
<p>North Campus is the ****</p>
<p>If you get an invite, jump on it. Looks decent on a resume, get to live in south quad, and the honors community is a tight knit group. and no north campus.</p>
<p>Is living on North Campus okay if you are an engineering major, or is South Campus still the way to go?</p>
<p>north campus is better for engineers than LSA students, especially if you end up taking a lot of classes up there, but it still sucks socially.</p>
<p>just got an email about the honors program…does everyone get it, or is it only sent to certain people?</p>
<p>i don’t know if i’m really interested…but knowing that i wont be stuck on north campus is making me consider it, although there’s obviously much more to the honors program than housing, lol</p>
<p>I just got the email too, is being a part of the Honors Program a huge time investment as far as extra work?</p>
<p>My S just got an invitation to participate in the Honors Program. I think he will apply even though it will require an additional, complex essay. The program also appears to require a thesis to graduate. Does anyone know more about that?</p>
<p>I got the email, seems like a pretty good program although I doubt I’ll get in. They said entering honors classes have stats equivalent to Harvard, Stanford, etc. I bet a lot of people got it but not everybody.</p>
<p>I got the email too.</p>
<p>Does being in Honors help with getting research right off the bat and getting classes that are better for premeds (smaller, no weedout?)?</p>
<p>What are the pros and cons of Honors for a premed? (housing doesn’t really matter)</p>
<p>Why do you guys keep asking these questions if you won’t read the responses? Read what giants92 said - pretty accurate, though it does not actually guarantee South Quad, unless that has changed since 2007. It’s an overall useless program, especially since they required 2 honors courses (iirc) every semester when I was in it.</p>
<p>Virtually guarantees you SQuad though, right? Always thought it was essentially automatic.</p>
<p>Yeah I got it too. Not sure if i’ll apply. My sis said the classes are much harder etc… dunno.</p>
<p>I like the Honors program. The only negative thing about it is that you have to take an average of 2 honors courses each semester freshman and sophomore year, but for most people that isn’t hard.</p>
<p>On the bright side, you’re essentially guaranteed South Quad (I haven’t heard of anyone who wanted it who didn’t get it) and SQuad is awesome, you get Honors advising, Honors events, and Lunch with Honors gives you a free and delicious lunch. Honestly, it’s not that big of a deal or time commitment, but it does give you greater community and opportunities.</p>
<p>And the classes aren’t really harder. Maybe a little more work, but the average GPA in those classes is higher than in non-honors classes.</p>
<p>^Yet, you can’t graduate with honors unless you write a thesis. Which anyone can do, i.e. not be in the honors college and then apply to honors in their major and write a thesis.</p>
<p>I took an honors math course and an honors eng course this year (there really isn’t an honors eng program though) and the grades are curved higher in those classes but they require more work</p>
<p>Honestly it sounds like a program for the kids that acted stuck up in HS cuz they were in honors and they want to keep thinking they are better than everyone else. Of course though, that’s my opinion and it probably doesn’t apply to everyone.</p>
<p>In answer to some of the other questions, anyone can apply to the Honors program but not everyone is invited to apply. And I don’t think it’s that difficult to get accepted.</p>
<p>Chemcolo, the honors program has two components. As a freshman and sophomore, you can do the honors program that they’re talking about here. As a junior and senior, you can work on an honors thesis (note that you DO NOT have to do the freshman/sophomore honors program to do a honors thesis) and that allows you to graduate with honors.</p>
<p>Viggyram, Honors doesn’t do much to help with research. I would recommend UROP for that. As for premed classes, you’re probably still going to be in the huge lectures with everyone else, but you can be in special honors sections. That’s what my roommate is doing.</p>
<p>I was actually accepted into Honors without applying - it was useless. The honors classes I took were not any better than the non-honors ones, though the grading was probably a bit more lenient. Taking 2 honors courses per semester sounds easy, and it might be for pre-med, but for CS it was a chore - there aren’t any honors CS courses.</p>
<p>In the end, I don’t even put it on my resume.</p>
<p>As for research, there is a great chance you’ll get a good research position as long as you have a good GPA. They don’t care if you’re an honors student or not.</p>
<p>HOWEVER, if you can find 2 honors courses per semester that you’d want to take, then there really aren’t any specific cons (other than the horrible advising). It just didn’t help me at all.</p>
<p>@South Quad being guaranteed: there was/is an entire honors section of Couzens.</p>
<p>Right right, couzens. Most go to SQuad tho I believe?</p>