<p>Many people heap a lot of praise on the Plan II Honors Program, but since it doesn't specialize/concentrate on any one subject how practical is this degree alone?</p>
<p>I can’t answer that question, but from my own limited experience, about half of Plan II majors also double major in something else.</p>
<p>For pre-law or pre-med, your major doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Most liberal arts majors are not known for being practical majors.</p>
<p>I think the part of it is … that you get small classes, first choice, profs instead of adjuncts, etc. It’s like being at a small LA within a huge university.</p>
<p>I don’t many PII majors who aren’t majoring in something as well. </p>
<p>PII seems to really help students with Law School and Med School placement. A lot of people I know who graduated from PII are doing one or the other. I would hesitate to attribute this effect to the “excellent education provided by the PII program”. Perhaps, PII students are just smarter.</p>
<p>has anyone gotten Plan II acceptances yet?</p>
<p>Several of D’s friends who applied priority are in</p>
<p>Aaah. Darn it…well I haven’t exactly received a rejection yet.
It was my second choice and I applied priority too!
But I got into BHP, so I’m sure not complaining :)</p>
<p>I just wanted to get into Plan II too; it’d be a great combo (biz and lib arts)</p>
<p>@TheAccountingCat: PII is easier to get in than BHP, I think it’s likely you’ll get in PII as well.</p>
<p>PII basically gives you the small liberal arts college feel in a giant state school. If you want to major in LA, PII or LAH probably would be the way to go. IMO, PII > LAH. You shouldn’t major in LA just for PII though. PII and LAH are designed to capture the top liberal arts student who would have otherwise gone to a liberal arts school. Because, frankly, UT’s undergrad liberal arts program isn’t anything to brag about.</p>
<p>but i haven’t received an acceptance yet…any reason for that?</p>
<p>As a current P2 student, here’s my two cents:</p>
<p>Plan II is overrated in the same way that many of the Ivies are supposedly overrated, which is to say that it’s much harder to get in than it is to do the work. Plan II works very hard to keep you in the program, and P2 classes tend to have pretty significant curves. Because I haven’t graduated yet, I can’t really tell you whether it’s useful in real life, but that’s all the negative I have to say for it.</p>
<p>Many Plan II students also double or triple major… I am planning to add History and Psychology, for instance. Plan II is very highly regarded among medical, law, and graduate schools. If you are a more goal-oriented, planning type of person, think of Plan II as a supplementary degree that fills in the gaps left by your other majors. P2 is an easy degree to complete (meaning there aren’t too many required classes) so it’s easy to add on other majors, or to explore disciplines you might not otherwise have time for. But if you choose to be “simply Plan II” you will likely be successful anyway.</p>
<p>The thing that you won’t really understand until you get to UT is that Plan II is an experience more than it is a major. I’ve learned so much from the people around me. They’re so smart and have such diverse talents and interests–and that, I believe, is the best part of the program. My very best friends at UT are all in Plan II (with one exception, who is in LAH) and they’re all people that I admire very much. I can honestly say that coming to UT and being Plan II is the best decision I’ve ever made.</p>