<p>I received an acceptance package in the mail a few weeks ago, and the package said I qualified for the Hutton Honors College. Does anybody know anything about the Honors College. I'm out-of-state and don't know much about Indiana University besides the business school, which was my motivation for applying.</p>
<p>for hutton, you gotta take 3 honors classes in first 4 semesters at IU and u get recognized with honors when u graduate. If u have recieved the SSA, then ur in and the application is used for additional scholarships offered by Hutton. Btw, i'm also oos and lookin 2 go 2 kelley. o u think it's worth it to go to kelley over wisconsin-madison or Minnesota?</p>
<p>Honors students typically can take only one honors course per semester. The honors classes are small and for honors students only. During the first two years at Indiana Univ., a great school, you may have to take several classes with well over 100 students--- like most large state universities. Indiana (Bloomington campus) is beautiful. Check to see if honors students get priority class registration, as I cannot recall.</p>
<p>I don't believe that honors student get preferential timing for class registration, but there are sections of certain classes that only honors students can take.</p>
<p>However, many honors students do come in with lots of AP/transfer credit, so they would have earlier registration times based on the greater number of credit hours they have over their peers.</p>
<p>I don't see any downside to participating in Hutton.</p>
<p>Tristan, if you are a direct admit to Kelley, which you probably are since you received a selective scholarship application and an invitation to Hutton, then you can take Kelley honors courses to meet Hutton requirements for minimum courses taken in the first four semesters; in other words, you would not have to take extra non-business classes your first four semesters to stay in the Hutton Honors College. But if you want an honors notation on your diploma, you need to take two courses from the honors college. These two courses would not add to your minimum required hours to get a business degree, however, if you apply them to the distribution option in the Kelley requirements. See this link for the general honors notation requirements.</p>
<p>GHN</a> Requirements for Students Who Entered the HHC Fall 2005 and After</p>
<p>Also, the grading for the HON-H seminar type courses does not appear to be very harsh.</p>
<p>Grade</a> Distribution Report</p>
<p>Since you need seven three hour courses for the general honors notation, I'm sure you could take more than one honors course a semester, especially since there are probably no opportunities to take three and four hundred level business courses that are accepted by the Hutton Honors College, and since you may be taking only Kelley courses your junior year (especially if you major in accounting or finance) because the I-Core semester is 14 hours and they recommend you take the 400 level two-hour career placement class the same semester.</p>
<p>Also, you can probably join Hutton without filling the selective scholarship application. Just contact the Hutton College via the email address listed in your acceptance package and tell them you want in without doing the ssa.</p>
<p>I got accepted to HHC, which "provides its students with both the intimacy of a small, liberal arts college and the resources of a large and distinguished university...having the best of both worlds."
From what I understand, you get to take some smaller classes (it says most HHC students take only one honors class per semester so don't worry about an overload) so you build "close working relationships with top faculty," etc. etc. I am just pulling these straight from their booklet haha. You also get assigned an HHC advisor, and an advisor in your department, and maybe an advanced HHC student who will be like a mentor for your first year or two.
I think if you were invited you should go ahead and apply, it will definitely open up opportunities and give you advantages that you would've otherwise not had. That includes extra scholarships, grants, etc., and it will definitely be way better to earn an honors notation on your diploma than not. They also have their own housing facility, (you're not obligated to stay there) ... the list goes on.
Also, they are all really nice and understanding. I really didn't (still don't really) want to go to IU just because I've lived in Bloomington for my entire life, but my dad forcibly annoyed me into applying for Huttons. So I emailed them at the last minute and explained how I would have to turn in my application a little late since it was during Thanksgiving, and the lady emailed me back and said I could even turn it in within the next few weeks and I turned it in two weeks late and they still let me in. If you do apply, I would definitely just fill out the SSA, because there is no point in turning down free money unless you're super rich and don't need it, but that is something I know nothing about. It's not hard to fill out, you just write two stupid little essays and then one bigger one. They said that they placed a lot of emphasis on it and tried to scare you into writing this very objective, well thought, well written, well argued paper on an issue that could be controversial but I turned in an opinion piece that I wrote last year for the newspaper and it was definitely not objective and barely adhered to their criteria. Anyway, this is getting way too long and I basically said nothing but, yes, you should apply.</p>