<p>Hey did anyone else apply for the honors program? If so, have you guys heard whether you were admitted yet? I received my acceptance letter a few weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything about honors.</p>
<p>I was accepted into honors about a week ago</p>
<p>My daughter recently received a letter saying she was accepted into the Honors Program. The envelope is postmarked 3/31. She applied EA so she has had the university acceptance letter since December.</p>
<p>We are trying to get more of the “inside scoop” on the Honors Program. She will be a chemistry major, so it seems to me she will have some tough courses ahead of her including the extra hours for lab courses. We would like to get an idea how much extra work the Honors courses will be, esp. that four course sequence they take the first two years that fulfill some core requirements. Lots of extra reading and papers to write?</p>
<p>What are the benefits? i think it said somewhere that honors Housing is open to anyone, not just Honors program.</p>
<p>Don’t do honors if you have AP Credits. Loyola has 17 core classes, I was able to cover about half of them with AP credits but had I stayed in honors all the AP credits would have been deflected to elective credits.</p>
<p>Honors is worth more than just credits. They hand-pick our professors (though obviously you’re not guaranteed to like all of them), and all of the reading that Honors requires really helped me out in my upper level classes. And it’s not like you can’t use any AP credit. I got out of taking any science or math in college with AP. </p>
<p>I have a lot of science friends that are also in the Honors program. Two engineering and two biochem, I think. They have a lot of work, but that comes with the science territory. I don’t mind the Honors work much, and I’m double majoring (philosophy and classical civilizations). The amount of reading sounds insane for the first few weeks (tip: read the Iliad AND the Odyssey during the summer, not just the Odyssey), but you really get used to it. I don’t have any more essays than I do in any of my other humanities classes. Mostly, the classes are about the discussions you have. And they’re worth the whole program. </p>
<p>Honors housing is open to all. It’s definitely less crazy than some other floors, but that’s kind of luck of the draw–the floor below us has some partying issues, but the floor above us is just fine. That doesn’t mean it’s silent, no-fun-ever housing. Honors kids are notorious for everything we do on weekends–we never stop moving!</p>
<p>(By the way, being in Honors makes it REALLY easy to get overrides into the classes you want, because you can’t move your classes around as easily as other students).</p>
<p>Intermezzo</p>
<p>I guesss my D ought to apply to Honors then She’s read the Odyssey 3x during jr high/hs, what’s one more? Read Iliad a couple of times too. </p>
<p>She is in 11th gr now, and so far likes Loyola best of the schools we’ve seen. She really needs to visit a second time & sit in on some clases though. </p>
<p>Is it hard to get nto the honors prog at Loyola?</p>
<p>I had a 31 ACT, A- average, heavy in AP classes and got in but chose not to stay in the program due to AP credits and advice from upperclassmen who said they regretted staying in the program because it majorly restricted their academic freedom, the core is 17 classes but you do have a choice on what to take for many of them </p>
<p>Also math/science takes up 3 classes out of the 17 core classes. The remainder of the core is humanities classes.</p>
<p>Thanks for your helpful replies. My daughter’s AP credits aren’t English, History or Fine Arts, so there doesn’t appear to be any overlap between AP credit and required Honors courses for her. </p>
<p>I know there are a lot of humanities core requirements to fulfill, just not sure which way to go on these - honors or not. It is her choice, but I am leaning towards offering my opinion to decline Honors. She has to decide Honors by May 1. I wish she could wait to decide until she is registering for all her courses to see what else is on her plate.</p>
<p>I would have her sign up, simply because in the end, it doesn’t take as much time as it seems to, and she can drop it later. Only a few people have left from my year, and everyone left is happy with it, including the science majors.</p>
<p>My D is in the honors program and an engineering major. Just as a side note, the amount of books we needed to buy was crazy. Be sure you check out “used book” searches for them or you will be very disappointed as to the amount of money you spent on books that maybe only a small portion of the book was used. </p>
<p>The program was wonderful for my D. She loves to read and is a great writer so it was up her alley so to speak. She is considering minoring in English. Dont know how she will fit in the classes needed but we will see.</p>
<p>how is the engineering program? it doesn’t seem like loyola has alot of choices.has your d decided on what her major will be in engineering, civil mechanical,etc.</p>
<p>the program is Engineering Science.she has chosen the Electrical option. she had an interest in “electric” since learning about it in HS Pysics…an engineering program at an school she was considering that brought music and electrical engineering together kind of clinched it for her. . seemed to be a passion… Her school testing showed equal balance in all subjects so the “you can do whatever you want” because you are strong in everything" … made a focus hard for her .(I always thought she would go into writing)… because it would be easier to switch out of Engineering than to switch in, she elected to start the Engineering route with the thought she could alway switch out… turns out she loves it. we didnt’ choose a “technical type school” for this reason… hoping not to have to switch schools if she found she wasn’t happy. SHe loves her classes… she is the only female in a class of eight I believe in her “electrical” classes. She also wanted small classes. It is the best Engineering program out there? probably not, not alot of electives to choose from… but in talking to alot of people, thats what Graduate school can provide. I feel she is getting a well rounded education along with the Engineering that she can further persue… expecially since her direction was not fully defined… If you want to know anything specific, let me know and I will try and find out for you.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me about honors housing? Do honors students see non-honors students if they live in honors housing? Where are the honors dorms? Is it worthwhile to live with the other honors students?</p>
<p>Honors housing is just a floor in one of the dorms. It is in the nicest freshmen dorm on campus. Non-honors students can request to live in honors housing if they desire that type of housing environment. However I know, at least for my year the honors kids are actually quite loud in the dorms.</p>