i would contact the honors dept and ask those questions. as far as i know on full tuition covering fox, my hesitant answer is i think so. no one on here, including current business students, noted the Fox students had to pay more and i think it would have come up on cc if the business students had to pay more. i have no idea on AP credits. honors and admissions would be most helpful for your questions.
Thanks for your reply! Ive really appreciated reading your input on this forum. I’ll call Temple and try to find out for sure (I’m assuming that if you are admitted into the business school and you have a full tuition scholarship, then even though the tuition is more than other degrees, they still cover full tuition.) Just trying to find out if there are any hidden caveats. Full tuition undergrad at a great school like Temple is too good to pass up IMO
Has your child enjoyed and felt challenged in the honors classes? My son is afraid that if he doesn’t go to an “ivy league type school” the classes won’t be challenging enough. My thoughts are if Temple is picking the best professors for the honors classes and the class sizes are 25 students then the profs are going to rise to the ability of the students in the class…
Temple is definitely a rough area. It is recommended to visit before you decide for sure if it is for you, although they are buying up more buildings so it is more of a campus than it used to be.
Honors classes are tough everywhere. I teach at a middling state school and our honors program brings in kids with 2000+ SAT and 3.7 GPAs. I taught a honors class and half the kids were totally in the dark about most of it, but they should not have been. I don’t think you have to worry about how tough an honors program will be, I think the reverse is more often true.
Thx - we frequent Philly and are familiar with the Temple area. That said, the fact that every semester some students are robbed at gun/knife point, does give us pause. I’m still on the fence. My son isn’t a partier, more of a frequent “roamer into the city arts/food/indie band concerts scene” type. He only wants to go to school in a major city. We know 2 students at Temple and they say they don’t feel unsafe; if you keep your wits about you you should be fine.
I like the fact that 1300 is near the Cecil /Broad Street line entrance (he thinks he can ride his bike 1 mile down Oxford to a yoga studio coffee house near Fishtown but that 1 mile looked like a war zone in parts) He isn’t put off at all with instructions to ride more in the middle of the street so they can’t pull you off your bike … that thought terrifies me. Uber seems like a viable answer to cheaply /safely get around.
Have you had any problems getting around?
He just needs to know the area. As you realize, it is evolving all the time, and it can change radically from one block to the next. My son has been in Philly for three years now (he transferred from UArts to Temple), and says that areas like Fish Town have some very upscale blocks abutting blocks that he wouldn’t dream of walking along. He has been held up, had a phone stolen, and an account hacked (not sure that can be blamed on a neighborhood). The hold-up occurred in a seemingly safe section of Center City (“Gayborhood,” near Old City). I always liken it to NYC in '70s and '80s. Most people were pickpocketed at some point or another, a few mugged, some experienced break-ins, and you learned to keep an eye on your person and your valuables. My friends and I wouldn’t have considered being anywhere else, however.
Appreciate your candor! I showed him your reply; he said the grit doesn’t deter him, as long as there is culture and intellectual stimulation around. Philly has plenty of that I think. -Lucky you to be in NYC when it still had mom and pop bookstores, live music venues like CBGB’s in the village, and real soul as opposed to the mass commercialization on every corner today… 
He’s mostly worried the classes won’t be intellectually stimulating enough. Apparently in his AP hs classes, no one participates in the discussions, they just spark note things and copy from prior years work of other students. He doesn’t want college to be like that. From my reading of reviews on Temple, people state that Temple’s classes are difficult. I’m going to try and see if he could sit on a class or two. Not sure if Temple allows that.
I get a sense that Temple students have a lot of school spirit, and I like that. In spite of the dangerous area, Temple students seem to love their school. Thanks again for your feedback!
Temple will likely let him sit on a class. my son was allowed to sit it on two. i sent emails to the professors and asked them, one said sure and one forwarded my email to dept chair who set something up.
Regarding challenge, my son loves the honors classes. however, his high school background was probably less intensive than what your son has. There have been interesting discussions in the classes he;s taken and since it is a smaller setting, everyone gets to know each other better and some or maybe all teachers are happy to be references and they know who each student is He has enjoyed the honors teachers as well. he has found the honors gen eds to be more enjoyable than regular geneds and has not heard anyone complain the honors classes are too easy, boring, etc.
so hard to say for your son but there were plenty of kids in my son’s entering class at Temple who scored at least 1400 on CR/M section on SAT and once you get to that level, i’d say everyone with that score is going to be sharp. maybe not as sharp as a kid who scores a 2400 without studying but nonetheless sharp. most from what i can gather are very studious and responsible although some seem more interested to live and love Philly than to worry about their next test. i think many of the difficult classes to be honest are more in the general curriculum and in the harder majors. for my son, i feel he is getting the best of 2 college environments, the advantages of a huge school and the vibe that goes with that with the option to take smaller more cerebral classes in honors for any subjects that he wants to.
I just saw an interesting statistic for Temple’s matriculating Class of '19: 590 out of 4700 students are in the Honors Program, which comes to 12.5% (or one-eighth). That’s a pretty solid representation of high-achieving students around campus.