<p>Hi guys I am accepted to WPI and OSU honors program. im looking for small coll where prof pay lots of attention on the students n less of TA’s do the teaching. this happens to be the case at WPI where only prof do the teaching. although i realize that the honors prog will give me more faculty interaction than non honors students i dunno how will it compare to WPI. plz help need to make the decision soon.</p>
<p>I’ve never had a class taught by a grad student at OSU. But they do exist, mostly in lower level courses you should be skipping as an honors student anyway. Not having grad students teach you is simple if you pay attention when scheduling.</p>
<p>Otherwise. OSU is a big school, your classes will be bigger than at a really small school. It’s easy to have a lot of interaction with faculty, but it’s all up to you. At a small school you might get lots of individual attention even as a wallflower who never speaks in class. At a big school no one’s holding your hand. You need to go to office hours, speak up in class, etc. If you do that, you can really stand out and have great relationships with your professors.</p>
<p>OSU has a lot to offer if you take advantage of it - in fact there are more opportunities than at small schools. But if you’re someone who wants/needs a little more structure and guidance, a smaller school is probably better. Simply a matter of personal preference.</p>
<p>@kelseyg-thank you so much.</p>
<p>anyone else plzz.it would really help</p>
<p>@kelseyg- hey i wanted to know one more thing- how the classes are in general. do the prof hold interesting fun and engaging classes.
also,with the honors can i grab a seat in a prof class who is the best.
moreover, the honors students enjoy special counseling. will this help with my grad school. do u know to which grad schools have OSU honors students gone to?
i know i have really attacked u with so many questions.</p>
<p>No problem, I’m glad to help.</p>
<p>I’ve loved the majority of my classes and found them engaging, but it depends on the department & personal taste I’m sure. You should go to the website of the department you’re interested in and check it out – there are usually class lists and descriptions and you can see if the general tone appeals to you.</p>
<p>Honors affiliation makes it easy to get the class you want. Freshman year things might fill up, but by sophomore and junior year you should be able to get in any class you want because you have priority scheduling and schedule weeks before most people.</p>
<p>Grad school: there are so many students here, I think we’ve probably got alumni at every decent grad school out there. Again, this is probably something you should contact your prospective department about to get some specifics. Counseling does help with grad apps, and there’s a group (the honors collegium) that specializes in helping students get admitted to competitive programs and scholarships.</p>
<p>Gr8 that u enjoy the classes u take. im btw planning to major in electrical engg.
ill check out the department’s website. thnx a million</p>
<p>anyone else plz help. come on people give me your views also</p>
<p>My son’s in honors engineering at OSU and it is not a small college atmosphere. Professors teach his classes but TA’s teach the recitations and often administer exams. Sometimes he prefers the TA’s to his professors. He has had no problem enrolling in the classes he wants but sometimes the teacher is unspecified or changed later. He has found all of his profs and TA’s very friendly and willing to help but he does take the initiative in many cases. OSU is not a good school if you are clueless or disorganized. However, there are many avenues for support.</p>
<p>dd is Arts and Science Honors-Exploration so spent year taking foreign language, math, other GEd requirements in honors sections. She has felt well prepared yet challenged. Some of her classmates, not so much. Made Dean’s list, kept her full ride…liked most of her professors and her TA’s in recitations. Advisor has been great. A good year all in all.</p>
<p>I am currently a freshman in OSU’s honors program, and while I am not in engineering, about a fourth of the people I live with in Lincoln (honors dorm) are, so I hear about their experiences with classes. </p>
<p>A number of people do fail out of the classes honors engineering students take, as it is a very rigorous schedule of difficult math and science classes, without much room for easier classes to keep your GPA high and your workload light. I think something like 1/4 or 1/5 of all engineering students change their major to something easier within the first year. An engineering student I am acquainted with failed my calc class for the second quarter in a row. </p>
<p>I really liked both of the graduate student TAs I had in math, as they were better at explaining than were the professors, but if that is an issue for you, it is something to consider. </p>
<p>I have taken a broad spectrum of GECs this year, and while some of them were interesting some of the time, they weren’t “fun” in any special way. I found the material interesting, but most of my classes, including the smaller honors classes, were mostly lecture-based, so you sit for 1-2 hours and take notes while listening and occasionally asking questions. </p>
<p>I really love it here at OSU, and I wasn’t sure I could handle the size of the school, but it hasn’t been an issue. I think it is intimidating to visit such a large school, but you get used to the size very quickly. I now think a smaller school would bore me for lack of interesting things to do with my time.</p>
<p>I am going into OSU Honors as a prospective Chemistry major. What should I expect in terms of class size, rigor, and possibility to do research? I was also wondering if a Chem degree would still give me enough time to get pre-medicine requirements, or if it’s more a degree for chemists?</p>
<p>About chemistry- Regular first year chem lectures can have around 300 kids but only 25 students per recitation and lab. Honors first year chem lectures are limited to about 40 kids with smaller numbers in recitations and labs. Honors organic chem lectures are limited to around 100 kids vs 300 in the non-honors sections. Either way it sounds like a lot of kids in lecture but my son has done quite well with it. I attended Case Western and had what seemed like several hundred kids in my intro chem classes without the benefit of the smaller recitation sections that my son enjoys. I think he is better off. There are definitely opportunities for research and I think you will find as much rigor as you could want especially in the honors sections. You can definitely do the pre-med requirements as well -pretty much a year of physics, calculus, biology, chemistry and organic chemistry.</p>