<p>how many people generally are in freshmen Liberal Arts Honors' program??</p>
<p>Is LAH competitive? I only know Dean's Honors of Natural Sciences only have 30ish people or something like that, pretty competitive....</p>
<p>thanks for your input!</p>
<p>If it is like last year, LAH will end up being a little bit smaller than Plan II. I think the fall 2008 incoming class had about 150 in Plan II and 130 in LAH? </p>
<p>It is not as hard to get into as Dean’s Scholars. (Dean’s Scholars is awesome.)</p>
<p>MidwestMom, Dean’s Scholars is awesome because it’s hard to get into?</p>
<p>My daughter’s roommate is in Dean’s Scholars. They are a really close-knit group. They are really smart kids, people who work hard and support each other, but they have a lot of fun too. Organized activities and hanging out. They all have other friends but they get along well with each other. Dean’s Scholars just appears to be a great group to be in. These are kids who could have gone just about anywhere and chose Texas and are really enjoying their college years at UT, making the most of everything UT has to offer. (If you are accepted to Dean’s Scholars and are not sure if going to Texas and being part of Dean’s Scholars is right for you, spend time with current Dean’s Scholars.) Awesome, IMHO.</p>
<p>Thanks for the insights, MidWestMom. Do you have any info on their (Dean’s Scholars’) graduate (PhD) and professional school (MD, MBA, JD) placements?</p>
<p>I would guess they are more of a future Ph.D. group than a future MBA or JD group but I have no information on that.</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t believe Plan II was bigger than LAH this past year. In Fall 2006, LAH was the biggest Honors program at the University.</p>
<p>FRESHMAN Liberal Arts Honors gets around 130 kids a year, but because all of the students who are registered for upper-division honors in their major are considered to be LAH students, that makes LAH the biggest honors program on campus.</p>
<p>Plan II usually ends up with almost exactly 180 freshmen.</p>
<p>i knew a guy who got into duke and georgetown. he was waitlisted in dean scholars, but eventually got in after they did an interview of all the waitlisted candidates. later, though, at the end of his sophomore year at ut, he chose to drop out of dean scholars because it was becoming increasingly hard for him to maintain his perfect 4.0 gpa and he felt that if he stayed in deans scholars he would have to take extra honors science classes that he did not need for his major (bio); classes like honors comp sci, etc. also, he told me that he was planning on going to med school and with deans scholars he wouldn’t have time to study for the mcat, because he would be forced to take so many extra classes.</p>
<p>Thanks for the distinction, LoneRanger.
And yes, Dean’s Scholars is very challenging. It may not be what some people are looking for in their college experience. However, isn’t this an LAH thread?</p>
<p>I’m a Dean’s Scholar and I can give some updates on the grad school placement of our recent graduates.
I can remember where a few of them are going.
I know two recent graduates are going to Johns Hopkins. One person is going to do MD/PhD, the other person is going to do MD/MPH, I believe.
I know one person is going to Univ. of Washington to do PhD in Comp. Science.
Another person is going to Harvard Law to get a JD.
Two persons going to UC Berkeley, I think they’re going to pursue a PhD in BioChem.
Those are the ones I can really remember right now, and of course there are those going into the industries.</p>