<p>Is there anybody that can tell me anything about it?</p>
<p>I don’t really want to end up at Cal Poly, but being in Honors would surely make me feel better.</p>
<p>I saw there are some extra classes…how are they? I also heard that the dorms are the best, so that’d be GREAT :)</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Well, I went to take a tour a couple days ago, and the guide told me that he knew about 2/100 that “survived” the honors courses, and it is NOT accredited, so it will not show up on your diploma or anything that you did honors.</p>
<p>Do any current SLO students read these posts? Our student will be attending SLO as a Biomedical Engineering major and has considered the Honors Program. The problem is that after sending e-mails to current students and the administrator/coordinator of the Honors Program, we cannot get a good response. Responses have been the general language used on the Honors website which do not answer the question below - </p>
<p>1) Is there really any benefit to joining the Honors Program, considering our student will be already in a rigorous engineering program? </p>
<p>2) Will our student have more opportunities for a scholarship if in the Honors Program?</p>
<p>3) Housing - Cerro Vista is the Honors Program residential hall. As a freshman, will our student miss out on a significant college experience or any transitional freshman support by going directly into Cerro Vista opposed to being part of the LLP program at North Mountain or Santa Lucia?</p>
<p>4) Housing - will our student have an opportunity to select a non-honors roommate and live in the Honors House (Cerro Vista) or must all Honors House residents be in the Honors Program?</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>In my experience, the Honors Program really doesnt do anything for you except make life more difficult. The grade points earned in a class is the same as for non-Honors classes. In other words an “A” in an Honors class counts the same as an “A” in a non-Honors class. There are no extra points awarded towards your GPA. So…why take a more rigorous class??
Also, the Honors Program seems to focus more on “Leadership”, Community Action, and "touchy-feely " stuff not at all related to your Major… What I mean to say is if you are in the Honors program it doesnt mean that if you are an Engineering major for example , you are going to be taking a lot of interesting , rigorous Engineering classes and getting extra GPA points for your effort.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t bother with the Honors Program. Just do the usual program and get good grades !</p>
<p>I’m a graduating senior in Cal Poly’s college of engineering and have had a very positive experience with the Honors Program.</p>
<p>Honors courses will help you graduate on time. They are reserved and guaranteed for honors students, with the added benefit of a hand picked professor. Three of my honors classes were calculus, two physics, one literature, one technical elective and one senior project; these were all required for my engineering degree and double counted as honors.</p>
<p>Honors courses are not more challenging than the core engineering courses, but they are certainly more engaging.</p>
<p>I do not recommend honors housing. You will make more friends in the dorms.</p>
<p>A previous post stated that acknowledgment of honors program completion does not appear on your diploma - in fact, it does.</p>
<p>“I do not recommend honors housing. You will make more friends in the dorms.”</p>
<p>Can anyone else verify this?</p>
<p>That’s based on the premise that Honors housing is in Cerro Vista, which is an apartment complex, not a traditional dorm. However, they do try and segregate the building assignments by class level. I lived at Bishop my junior year - which was primarily populated by upperclassmen; juniors, seniors, grads, and transfers.</p>
<p>There’s no requirement that one must live at Cerro Vista to be in Honors program.</p>
<p>Yeah. I was just wondering if there was more socialization in, say, Sierra Madre and Yosemite than in the Honors Housing. (Which is indeed in Cerro Vista.) My goal is to get into the most social housing/dorm as possible, so any suggestions or verification of previous testimonies would be greatly appreciated. :)</p>
<p>Then Sierra Madre is probably the one you want.</p>