<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I am starting to put together my list of schools to apply to/visit. I am a Va resident with a career goal of working in historic preservation/public history/urban/community planning. I have looked at some very small schools, some medium sized ones, some larger ones. I know I want a school that has great school spirit, friendly down-to-earth people and offers me a way to prepare myself for this career path. I will most likely go onto graduate school to get my master's in Historic Preservation or M. Arch with a HP emphasis. </p>
<p>So....in looking at NC schools, I saw that ECU has a BS in both Public History and one in Urban and Community planning. Right up my alley! Yay! Also, it seems like it has great school spirit and a community feeling. I am a pretty strong student with a 4.5 gpa, ranked 6th in my class of 340 at a very competitive, highly ranked public hs. Several leadership positions, sports, etc. I haven't received my May 5th SAT scores yet. </p>
<p>My questions are:</p>
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<li> Does anyone know anything about the Public History or history programs at ECU?</li>
<li> How about the Urban planning program?</li>
<li> How hard is it for OOSers to gain admittance to the Honors College and receive merit money as an EC Scholar?</li>
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<p>Thank you all so much for reading through this post! Have a great day!</p>
<p>I hope I am not being too redundant asking these questions…I had forgotten I posted about ECU awhile back in January on another forum category! Sorry about that! I wish you had longer to delete posts! :(</p>
<p>Don’t know anything about those specific programs. If your SAT score is good, you have a good shot at ECU Scholars. If not scholars, you could definitely be in the Honors Program. My S just graduated from ECU two weeks ago. While not a history major, he loves history and took two history classes as electives. Both profs. were very good and S enjoyed the classes immensely.</p>
<p>Thanks PackMom for your reply. Congrats on your son’s graduation! I was looking online this afternoon at the ECU website and saw they named 20 EC scholars. All but one was from NC, so it is going to be tough. I recognize the emphasis they put on being a NC resident. It makes sense bc of it being a state uni. I read that even if I didn’t receive that particular award, there may be others within the HC that would grant me in state tuition money I could apply to the OOS costs, so that is a plus. </p>
<p>I would like to visit the school sometime this summer. (I wish I more time during the school year when the campus is full of students, but it is so hard missing school, practices, etc.) Do you know of a good place to stay? I also would like to talk to some of the profs in those departments and/or the HC, but I don’t know if they would be there during the summer. Thanks again for your help!</p>
<p>Try the Best Western Hotel. Maybe you’ll have a school holiday(teacher workday) in the Fall so you can visit when all the students are there. You can always just skip a day :)</p>
<p>About OOS Honors College- there’s 100some (perhaps 125 or 150) students per grade in the Honors College- as an OOS student, you would get a scholarship which would effectively bring your costs down to those of an in-state student. Provided you are solid like you say and have an 1800+ SAT, you should be sound for the Honors College… my brother is currently a student in it and he loves it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply prunkss. I am going to go visit in a few weeks and plan on touring the HC while I am there. I am looking forward to seeing the school and hearing about the options that I may have if I were to go there! 
I get my second SAT scores back before then so hopefully I will have improved and will know more about my chances for being competitive for scholarships, etc. Have a nice day!</p>
<p>You could definently get a Scholarship because you are way ABOVE average for ECU but most ECU students are in state since it is a state school.</p>