<p>my acceptance letter said im eligible for the honors program. What are the benefits of being in the program? how hard is it to be accepted into the honors program once you are eligible? Do you have to know you want to go to UCLA to apply?</p>
<p>Benefits are basically a notation on your transcripts, priority enrollment for classes, and a few other minor things. It's not hard at all to get if you're eligible - just submit the essay. I doubt you have to have submitted your SOI to apply, but i'm not positive about this.</p>
<p>Is it harder to get good grades in honor classes?</p>
<p>Are there any housings benifits to being in the honors program?</p>
<p>no, no housing benefits to honors program. And I have no idea how the grade situation is for honors collegiate classes sine I've never taken one - I decided against doing honors because I don't have enough extra units or time.</p>
<p>No housing benefits are necessary because everyone is unofficially guaranteed 4 years of housing anyways.</p>
<p>Actual honor classes are smaller, and usually the more dedicated students take those classes so the curves would theoretically be higher since the curve depends on the pool of students in the class. One of the exceptions though is that the physics 6 honors series tend to be easier than the nonhonors series. You can also fulfill half the units required by just taking the 89 section in addition to the regular nonhonors class if your professor decides to hold it, and that just meets an extra hour a week like a regular discussion section, and for the honors credit you receive, it would be the units of the regular course + 1, so you're getting more honors credit for doing this much easier way than if you decide to take the actual honors course for the subject (it also doesn't count towards your units cap). It's prob confusing right now, but it'll make more sense once you've actually gone through the signing up process for classes.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what percent of the student body is eligible for the honors program?</p>
<p>The numbers of students admitted into College Honors is quite high actually; I believe it's roughtly 50%. That's simply because of the relative ease to get in and the "benefits." However, only about 400 students graduate with Honors.</p>
<p>It's not the top however many percent of the student body that get to be in honors. All it requires is a GPA of at least 3.5 and taking a certain number of classes designated as honors (there are other methods to get honors credit).</p>
<p>Freshmen Clusters count towards honors and most people generally agree that the coursework is a bit more rigorous than their other classes.</p>
<p>The class size is generally much, much smaller. It's about 30 people whereas the non-honors counterpart is 100+.</p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshman. Is it possible to skip honors for now and then apply later? Would that be beneficial? I'm thinking if it were possible I would apply later. I'd like to test the waters at UCLA first to get a feel of where I stand academically.</p>
<p>Yes, you can apply later as long as you have a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>Well if you are going to do clusters, then you might as well sign up now. At least for the first year, there aren't really any honors level courses you have to take if you are doing a cluster.</p>