<p>Does anybody know anything about the NCST Honors program? I just got a letter asking me to apply. There was some very basic information in the message, but nothing too specific. What advantages are there to being in the honors program compared to a regular course-load.</p>
<p>My son just got an email inviting him to apply. Don’t know much about it - so hopefully someone with experience will reply.</p>
<p>Just got the email as well. I third the request for information about it - differences between the Honors Program and the Scholars Program, etc.</p>
<p>I am currently a first year student (junior now with credit hours!) in the University Honors Program at State.</p>
<p>Here is the lowdown from a student’s prospective: </p>
<p>The Honors program is MUCH more prestigious than the Scholar’s program.</p>
<p>Second, The Honors program will be much more DIFFICULT than the Scholar’s program.</p>
<p>Third, You will get much more out of the Honors Program than the scholar’s program most likely.</p>
<p>You have to take 4 honors seminars, which can be difficult classes, but fulfill GEP requirements and are taught by some of the best teachers the university offers. </p>
<p>You get the opportunity to live in the Honors Village (which I lived in this past semester) which is a very nice place right next to many of the Honors Seminars.</p>
<p>You complete a Capstone Project (often filled by your departmental degree requirement’s senior design project)</p>
<p>You get opportunities to attend events and speakers you would not have otherwise (I got to go to the Shelton Leadership forum and alot of people ate with the chancellor, etc)</p>
<p>You get priority registration 2 WEEKS before regular registration. All other early registrations start a day or two early, this gives you a huge advantage with alot of the funding for classes being cut due to economic times. </p>
<p>Also, you can register for honors sections of normal classes, which I did and they have the best teacher’s out there. They are small (20-30) person sections of normally HUGE(200-300) person classes that are always taught by the best person for that course.</p>
<p>I would personally recommend it, however most of the students in the honors program are incredibly bright. Don’t let the high distribution on the first year Honors Seminar fool you. for me it was probably one of the hardest classes I will ever take. However, it was probably one of the best classes I will ever take as well.</p>
<p>PS: I’m a CSC/MA major, grammar is the last of my cares</p>
<p>manyman234- Thanks for your response. I have a couple of questions. Can you do Co-Op if you are in the Honors Program? I don’t know if I overlooked this, but are there requirements for honors courses in your intended major? Thanks again.</p>
<p>What do you think about double majoring + UHP? Too much work?</p>
<p>I’m a double major in the Honour’s program - Zoology and Philosophy. I’m one of the oddball students who joined after a semester at State, not from high school, so I have a slightly different perspective. (And I’m quite glad I didn’t have to take the first semester seminar!) I’m now a sophomore. I agree with most of what Manyman said, but disagree with some. More below. </p>
<p>As far as double majoring, you just have to be a little more wary of the courses you take and how they fit in your degree - you’re lucky if you’re coming to state next year, though, as they just remodeled the degrees slightly and there is a ton more overlap than there used to be. It also depends on what they offer every semester - this semester they seemed to be on a Philosophy kick, which really sucks for somebody who is already majoring in the damn thing - not very useful for /my/ gen eds. </p>
<p>You can definitely co-op… I actually think you can even do a project to have one of your co-ops count as an honors seminar. It isn’t something I’ve really looked into with my majors, but a friend of mine in CSC co-op’d and graduated last year in the honors program. He finished his grad degree this year and is actually moving to work for Microsoft in about a week and a half. </p>
<p>Thoughts:</p>
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<li><p>The honors seminars (past the introductory one) are not necessarily difficult, but from all the students I’ve spoken to, they’re almost always interesting. I took “Global Climate Change Challenge” with Dr. Bruck this last semester, and the first day of class he stated: “You’re all honors students, and you’re all going to get As. I don’t want to hear any *****ing about it.” And it was definitely a very cool class, I learned a lot, and yes, got my A. (: </p></li>
<li><p>The priority registration is the best thing in the world. You /never/ have to worry about getting the classes you want.</p></li>
<li><p>The Quad (the honours village) is an awesome community. I live in Alexander Global Village, home of the exchange students, but the Quad is definitely a second choice. </p></li>
<li><p>As far as a comparison to the scholars program, I think it is really what you make of it. If you plan on pursuing a professional degree (I do - DVM,) the Honours program is useful in the contacts into research and everything else that it provides. Scholar’s is much more cultural learning, artsy fartsy stuff (and I personally love that,) but I /hated/ being in Scholar’s for the three or so weeks before I was accepted to Honour’s. I was required to attend this or that event, get my signature on a sheet of paper, and it just was very constraining and unlikeable to me. I’ll attend my artsy fartsy stuff by my own free will, thank you very much. hehe.</p></li>
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<p>Just in general, if you have the option to do Honour’s and it sounds interesting, I would do it. If not, some people love Scholar’s, too… I just don’t see the appeal personally.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, what deadline did those who received a letter apply to? I applied the Nov 2 deadline and didn’t get a letter…not that I was expecting one.</p>
<p>How hard is it to get accepted to the honors program? I have average sat scores [2040], many ecs, and a 3.97 uw GPA- is it feasible for me to gain acceptance?</p>
<p>My deadline is January 17. Applied October 15 deadline.</p>
<p>Jan 17? I thought Oct 15 people found out Dec 15?</p>
<p>I must have misunderstood your question. I applied by October 15, got my acceptance on December 11, and I have to submit my UHP application by January 17.</p>
<p>Ah, thanks. Congrats to you! =]</p>
<p>You can COOP and you can double major</p>
<p>I am currently a VP of my fraternity, an RA, a double major, and planning on COOPing. The Honors program does not prevent anything else except for the scholars program.</p>
<p>DS got an invite for the Scholars program and has accepted it. </p>
<p>As stated in another thread- he was invited to apply but didn’t want to do the honors college application (just couldn’t face one more essay and none of his worked for this one). Personally, since he is a musician and a rather talented artist - I think the more “artsy” aspect of the Scholars program is more to his liking. For now, a good compromise for him.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son; from what I’ve heard they are both wonderful programs. I got the invite too but I think the Honors Program is a better fit for me, so we’ll see if they let me in.</p>
<p>Secret Asian Man - good luck to you!!! NCSU is not my son’s top choice, but it’s nice to have lots of good options, and this is definetly one.</p>
<p>Thanks! It’s not my first choice either but it’s my best financial option if all else fails.</p>
<p>Is it possible to be invited to apply for Honors Program if I apply to NCSU near the Feb 1st deadline?</p>
<p>My daughter applied in November and just got invite to apply for Honors yesterday. It’s due 2/21. (We’re OOS)</p>
<p>I finished my essay this morning…it took me about two hours to write and was about 700 words. Is that too short since they said limit it to 1,000?</p>
<p>Also, I read that 150 people are admitted to the UHP; how many people typically apply; basically, how competitive is admittance once you’ve been invited to apply? I’m in the engineering college, so I’m sure that makes it more difficult since they have to represent each college proportionally. (I was told this at a WISE open house day)</p>