<p>What are the pros/cons of doing so?</p>
<p>Good question - am wondering the same. </p>
<p>Is there particularly a specific pharmacy living place for all the pharm students? Because I know that UConn has a similar thing like that - a pharmacy learning center separate from their honors building.</p>
<p>I don’t believe there is a specific pharmacy living space, but yeah up. if anyone could help.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the question. Why would you not want honors? The worse thing that can happen in honors is that you drop out of it. Even if there is a pharm LLC (and I’m pretty sure there isn’t), the honors dorms are much better anyway. It’s not like you have to choose between honors and pharmacy as programs. There are plenty of honors pharm kids.</p>
<p>Don’t you have to be invited to the honors program to be honors?
Also, they do have an LLC for all health sciences majors. Not exactly a pharm LLC but quite close [ [url=<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/reslife/livinglearning/fyllc/bouve.html]Residential”>http://www.northeastern.edu/reslife/livinglearning/fyllc/bouve.html]Residential</a> Life > First Year Living and Learning Community > Bouv</p>
<p>As far as LLCs go, the vast majority of pharmacy majors live in the Bouve LLC during their first year. While the honors housing is amazing, I don’t know if I would live there for freshman year, due to the fact that you are completely isolated from the rest of the freshman housing, which is located on the opposite side of campus. From personal experience, it seems as if the honors pharm kids stick together, while the rest of us stick with the groups of friends made from living together in the Bouve dorm. There are pros and cons to each of the LLCs, and its really up to your own personal preferences…</p>
<p>The only decision to make is where you’re living. You should never turn down honors though, referring to the program not to housing.</p>
<p>I would do honors, but stay in the normal dorms/bouve LLC.</p>
<p>The New Honors housing[International Village] is crazy nice, but you don’t really meet too many people. You kind of live in your own bubble. You get a semi-single room, and a bathroom shared for two, and are closer to classes. But you don’t meet as many people and you will probably end up spending most of your time with other honors people unless you try to reach out and meet people outside of the bubble. </p>
<p>IV is really nice, but try to get to the bouve LLC you’ll feel so much more fulfilled, and you’ll meet so many more people</p>
<p>Honors housing is doubles, just like all the other freshman housing. Only time you get a single is if you are wicked lucky (or unlucky? depending on your view) and share a bathroom with an RA.</p>
<p>Alright so what it’s coming down to with doing honors during the pharmacy program:
- Nicer dorms
- Less social integration (you said they end up sticking together/meeting less people)
- Higher GPA requirement (from 3.0 to 3.4)
- Harder classes (assumption)</p>
<p>Are there really any benefits other than the nicer dorms? Neuchimie why should the program never be turned down? Most agree to do the LLC housing anyway if honors is done. Thanks for the help guys and girls it’s sure appreciated</p>
<p>Why would you turn honors down? It looks very good to graduate from college with honors.</p>
<p>You aren’t going to have less “social integration”. Freshman year people stick with dorm friends, but by the end of sophomore year you’ll be all mixed in. I’m non-honors, living with an honor student and an ex-honors student, and my friends are from different majors and both honors/non-honors. </p>
<p>My roommate, who dropped out of honors, just didn’t feel like taking the extra courses and didn’t think it would really benefit her in getting into medical school (she just got accepted a month ago, so she was probably right). </p>
<p>There’s really no reason not to do honors if you’re accepted. After freshman year, your priority will be to live with friends, not to live in honors housing. Your friends will be both honors and non-honors, and no one will care. Also, if you did well enough in high school to be accepted into honors, you really should have no problem maintaining a decent GPA. </p>
<p>Also, honors students take a few honors-only classes during their undergrad, the rest are just regular classes. As a pharm student you will be in core sciences with honors and non-honors students. No one is safe from the wrath of Potts-Santone and her general bio course.</p>
<p>well the thing that i wonder is whether or not graduating, in the pharm program, looks better with honors as you all end up in the same place after 6 years</p>
<p>Does it matter? If you’re in your third year and you realize that you really just can’t fit in the last two honors courses, oh well. Then don’t graduate with honors. If you hit really really hard classes and can’t keep up the gpa, oh well. But why should you go INTO college already deciding not to? You lose all of the benefits of being in the program, all of the support, and all of the prestige. Graduating with honors looks good, but it also looks great on your resume for co-op when you’re trying to get your first job and all they have to look at is your gpa and past courses. If you try to apply to a job on campus or send in an application for a program or whatnot (like being a school tour guide, for example) it looks awesome to say you’re in the honors program. Honors kids can say they know about non-honors, but non-honors have a hard time proving they know the ins and outs of the honors program, even if they have a friend in it. Honors program gets you free food, free housing events, and free trips places. If you want to TA for a class, honors program lets you do that without being a grad student. Honors program will help you start research if you’re into that stuff. And knock on wood, if you decide three years in that you were wrong and you don’t want to do pharmacy and instead you want to transfer to some other school, honors looks even better.</p>
<p>That all helps a lot- great post, thanks. Merry Christmas and/or happy holidays everyone~</p>