<p>Ok, so I'll be a freshman at U of M next year, and I just got accepted into the LSA Honors Program. There seem to be some real advantages to the program- counseling, good classes, and especially a dorm on Central Campus. However, I enjoy (and am best at) the math/sciences above all and plan to pursue this for my career. I don't particularly enjoy classes based on discussion or that focus on literature or abstract ideas. From what I've read, it seems like there is a lot of this, like the First-Year Book, in the Honors Program. I was wondering if there is anyone who could tell me if this is true? If anyone has any experience in the Honors Program, would you recommend it to someone like me? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>There is a requirement to take Great Books (or substitute) during the first year. This is in lieu of the first year writing requirement that everyone in LSA must take but FYWR is a semester.</p>
<p>There are plenty of math and science choices in honors.</p>
<p>You can always drop out if it isn’t what you want.</p>
<p>The class is called" great book". It is a requirement for the honors program members. But the good things about it is that it can also be counted as a first-year writing class and humanity class to fulfill your graduation requirement. Honors program is a very good choice if you are really into science. If you are in the honors, there are lots of honors science class you can enroll without bothering to ask for the overrides. Usually the honors science classes are much harder and you can learn much more than the regular classes especially the physics.</p>
<p>Over 50% of the people in my hall in honors housing are science majors.</p>
<p>Thanks, all that’s very helpful. What kind of people would you say are in the honors college? What’s honors kick-off like?</p>
<p>Can’t speak for you but I’d go to honors. I want to be around the smartest people possible. Nearly all Mich. students are talented, but I found the honors kids to be stronger still, and one can really gain from being around people like that. Looks better on your resume too to be Michigan honors. Go for it.</p>
<p>I’m going to major in mathematics and am contemplating whether or not I should do honors. How hard/boring are the english classes? I took honors english in high school but that was only because I found them to be extremely boring/useless.</p>
<p>My son is a totally science maniac. He is just finishing his freshman year in the honors program and loves it. He complained a bit about all the reading in Great Books, but actually enjoyed the class and the discussions. He has also found that he likes the honors classes much better than the other classes. There are fewer people, great teachers, and lots of interaction. This goes for his math and science classes as well as other courses (for example, he was able to fulfill a distribution requirement by taking a course on the history of science. They got to recreate a lot of experiments, but it counted as an interdisciplinary course that also satisfied an honors requirement.) He also really enjoyed living in the honors dorm. I know he would highly recommend the program for anyone, including kids interested in science.</p>
<p>Great books shouldn’t be boring even to science people. Sometimes it’s a question of how they are taught. Hopefully the honors profs. will bring them to life better than your HS teachers did, hard as they may have tried.</p>