<p>When applying for graduate school or medical school, how much of a difference is there to graduate from UF honors college or UF regular college? Also can I still graduate in honors without being in honors college? And if so would it be the same as graduating from honors college? And i heard that you can apply for the honors college I think your second year, is that true? I never applied because I figured my test scores were too low, but i had a high GPA for my school at least.</p>
<p>Your post confuses me a little. You’re not talking about graduating with latin honors, correct?</p>
<p>I don’t think being in the honors college makes a difference outside of you getting a small class setting where you’d normally be taking the big freshmen auditorium classes. Even then, I’m pretty sure you can petition to get into the honors classes.</p>
<p>There are three things that can be considered “honors college.” </p>
<p>The first one (and the one I think you are talking about) is the general honors program (Hume Hall and all that), which is not specific to any one college. How important will it be to med/graduate school? Well it won’t make or break your application but really when applying to graduate school it’s nice to be able to put more things down (it’s probably more useful that you get honors advisors which are pretty awesome although limited in their powers now, and they have a nice scholarship).</p>
<p>The second one is available through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and they have a specific honors program. </p>
<p>The third one is related to your specific major (summa cum laude and all that latin stuff). Getting highest honors is nice, but I don’t think you’ll know by the time you actually apply and are accepted to graduate school so this also may not be too important.</p>
<p>All of these are essentially independent (although the CALS honors program requires a thesis and is therefore related to the latin honors).</p>
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<p>Graduating honors is not about being in the honors college; it’s about grades and for the highest levels it includes research. Requirements depend on the college of your major. Here is an example of CLAS reqs: [Office</a> of the University Registrar](<a href=“http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/programs/honorsgpa.html]Office”>http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/catalog/programs/honorsgpa.html)</p>
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<p>Yes. Scroll down to lateral admissions. [University</a> of Florida Honors Program: About Us](<a href=“http://www.honors.ufl.edu/aboutus.html]University”>http://www.honors.ufl.edu/aboutus.html)</p>
<p>What are the benefits of completing the honors program?
Can non-honor students take honor classes?
Whats the difference between a student admitted normally and a student admitted “laterally”?</p>
<p>1) you don’t ‘complete’ the honors program. you participate in it by taking classes set aside for honors students, and have special resources not available to regular students. after graduation, there isn’t any benefit besides being able to say you were accepted into the honors program. it sounds good, but its not a deal breaker, as someone said already.</p>
<p>2) no. most honors classes are mirror versions of non-honors classed, but smaller.</p>
<p>3) you don’t get to participate in the honors program during your first semester. lateral admission is only available for second semester.</p>
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<p>do all honors student get this scholarship? how much is it? Is it automatically renewed every semester or year? can students admitted laterally get this scholarship?</p>