Just found out about FSH

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Daughter is still considering four universities, but just found out this morning that she was accepted to Freshman Science Honors. Does someone have first hand experience of this program? Are the benefits likely to carry over to later years? How personalized is the advising?</p>

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<p>The only real benefit is that you take the intro general chemistry and biology sequences in a smaller class with a better “curve” per say because basically everyone gets an A or a B. However, the material is the same as the “normal” classes and maybe slightly more in depth for some topics but in the end, it doesn’t matter too much so there really aren’t lasting benefits since most classes are essentially memorize everything for the test and forget it immediately after. Another topic about FSH here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1490753-premed-usc-fsh-no.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1490753-premed-usc-fsh-no.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Advising is hit or miss, depends on the actual adviser, most kids are pre-health so most effort is put into that…
From your other posts, it seems that your daughter wants to obtain a Ph.D in neuroscience, I can advise you/her right now in 30 seconds. Do as well in classes as possible, find a research opportunity as soon as possible so you are more likely to obtain funding and/or name on a published paper, take the GRE and apply to graduate school after her 3rd year. For top programs, you definitely want to have lots of research experience. Of course I left out some details but that is most of it. Check out these links:</p>

<p>[USC</a> Undergraduate Research](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/programs/ugprograms/ugresearch/oncampus_index.shtml]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/programs/ugprograms/ugresearch/oncampus_index.shtml)
<a href=“http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/1/docs/advising/prehealth/Research_Opportunities.pdf[/url]”>http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/1/docs/advising/prehealth/Research_Opportunities.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Essentially everything an advisor will tell you can be found online, I’d say 95% is covered here: [Pre-Graduate</a> School > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences](<a href=“http://dornsife.usc.edu/pre-graduate-school/]Pre-Graduate”>Home > Career Pathways > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences)</p>