<p>Oh, so if science isn’t my strongest subject, I could be in Honors humanities classes but be in a “regular” chem class?</p>
<p>Oh, I should have made that clear. Yes, you can do that. However, to graduate ‘from the program’ you need 3 maths/sciences honors classes. This could be calculus, chem, physics, biology, and sometimes classes such as CSE have honors sections that can be counted as part of the maths/sciences requirement.</p>
<p>So really, if you’re in the honors program, you <em>could</em> have one class with 20 students and another with 200. </p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions, I’m just really curious!!</p>
<p>Ohh it’s no problem :P</p>
<p>Yes, the small class sizes are only for Honors classes and upper division courses (like in your major).</p>
<p>For example, here are the approximate class sizes for me this year:
(honors) = honors class
(department) = CSE majors only
all other classes are intro courses</p>
<p>Fall 2010 - 125 (honors - half of honors freshmen), 400, 350, 70, 30 (department)
Winter 2011 - 25 (honors), 400, 11 (honors), 75, 15 (department), 20 (honors add on to one of my lectures, qualifies as math/science)
Spring 2011 - 55 (department), 200, 160, 50 (department), 200</p>
<p>next Fall, it should look somewhat like 40 (department), 50 (department), 15 (department), 50</p>
<p>^Honestly, I’m not taking as many Honors courses as other students would - one per quarter or something. Since I’m an engineer student, I’m trying to get many department courses out of the way to prep for internships. If I took an Honors class instead of department, you can replace one of the departmental class numbers with about 25 =)</p>
<p>Thank you soo much this is really helpful! I was kind of nervous about having ALL 200-people classes, so maybe Honors would be good for me…</p>
<p>So the lectures are huge, but there are also quiz sections. Depending on the department, your TAs for the quiz sections will either be graduate or undergraduate students.</p>
<p>I don’t know how good you are with accents… but people complain about math TAs being international students from China and India and having crazy accents all the time. Personally, I can understand the ‘terrible accents,’ but for others, it’s a challenge. </p>
<p>Quiz sections are 20-30 people classes where you can go over the material you learned in lectures and ‘review’ with a TA. So far, I’ve had great TAs who are on top of things - they email back promptly, hold extra office hours when midterms are coming, etc. </p>
<p>Quiz sections are T/Th (sometimes only once a week, depends on the class).</p>
<p>So for example, let’s say you’re taking Calculus 1, non Honors.
Monday: Lecture with 70 people!
Tuesday: Quiz section with 25 people and TA
Wednesday: Lecture with 70 people!
Thursday: Quiz section with same 25 people and same TA
Friday: Lecture with 70 people!</p>
<p>Any one got acceptance letter from Oregon yet?</p>
<p>Got waitlisted 
Does anyone know approximately how many students get waitlisted? and how many get in? Considering how brutal other out of state private colleges have been this year, I don’t think I’ll get accepted from the waitlist…</p>
<p>I heard somewhere they accept about 10 from the waitlist, but I cant remember where I read that so I could be completely off base.</p>
<p>Oh that’s just great. ■■■.</p>
<p>Depends on the year, I guess. There were ten people at my school last year waitlisted, and four of them got in…</p>
<p>So why would you choose Honors, since you get small class sizes anyway with Quiz Sections?</p>
<p>For quiz sections…Not all TAs are made equal… let’s just say.</p>
<p>Small class sizes with professors (at least, from my experience) has been wonderful. Honors courses are never set; you don’t really know who’s teaching when, and which quarter, and what topic. The professors, I find, are more ‘into student learning’ in Honors. Of course, there are some non-Honors professors who has the sole goal of making everyone learn as much as they can. However, in a smaller setting, there are just more in depth you can cover.</p>
<p>Hmm, what I’m trying to say is, quiz sections with TAs and classes with professors is like comparing apples to oranges. There’s a ton of factors that aren’t consistent between the two types of classes, so it’s hard to just compare them.</p>
<p>^This makes sense in my head, but I feel like it might not be very clear. If it registers as gibberish to you, let me know haha</p>
<p>@speedsolver</p>
<p>You are an engineering major, right? Are you also going for department honors? How realistic would it be to get college and department honors in engineering in four years, coming in with about 20 Community College/Running Start Credits?</p>
<p>Yes, I’m an engineering student. I’ll apply to departmental honors at some point.
What do your credits go towards? Would they be equivalent to, say, calculus 1, 2, 3, or more like general education? </p>
<p>The thing about Honors core is that you take 45 credits of humanities instead of… 90. So you’re still okay. =) Once you start getting Honors students coming in with 90 credits of general education credit already, that would be an issue.</p>
<p>How hard is it to get into Honors in the spring admission period? I got flatout rejected from Honors, but I thought I had a pretty good chance compared to the people at my school (some got in, some got waitlisted). I also got DA-ed into CSE.</p>
<p>Congrats on CSE!</p>
<p>So UW Honors looks for people pursuing interdisciplinary studies (taking two different fields and ‘combining’ them). I’ve heard that it’s easier to get into Honors in the spring admission period. I don’t know the stats though.</p>
<p>Would you say that it’s beneficial to be in Honors? I’m really unsure of what I want to do at this point, but I’m interested in international relations/politics and business/economics type of stuff in addition to CSE. I also like being challenged and I tend to take the most difficult courses available.</p>
<p>@speedsolver</p>
<p>I can’t believe how helpful you are! Thank you so much for answering all these questions about honors!</p>
<p>So, is there some sort of catalog we can look at to see what honors classes are offered? For example is Math (Calc) 124, 125 and 126 all optional honors classes? What about Chemistry, do they offer that in honors? </p>
<p>It would be nice to get prerequisites for engineering with honor credits…</p>
<p>What do you mean by combining two different fields?</p>