<p>I am beginning to look at grad schools and was wondering the perception of the schreyer honors college at penn state university. Apparently they have students frequently passing up on ivy league schools as well as many students going on to ivies for grad school.</p>
<p>What is the overall perception of the honors college at Penn State? There are no rankings for honors colleges around the country but i've heard from many that Schreyer is the best in the country.</p>
<p>I know it looks better than graduating from Penn State, but i didn't know if grad schools really cared, or if gpa/test scores/essays had more value than the undergraduate education. </p>
<p>Grad school will not care. There’s too many honors colleges (and universities) to keep track of. Every school has different grading standard. Your GMAT will be an equalizer in gauging your academic ability.</p>
<p>I completely disagree, and I don’t know how you can say with such authority that grad schools 'won’t care." They certainly DO care, and they do know what honors colleges are out there. It’s not that hard, and I’m not even an expert. SHreyers has a great reputation. Of course your standardized test scores matter. But it matters where you go to college, just as it matters where you went to high school and whether you took honors classes or not–besides GPA and difficulty of courses, who writes your letters of recommendation is paramount, and if the recommender is a nobody from Nobody U. in no-challenge class, it matters. For instance, while at the honors college at MSU, I was able to take graduate classes while an undergraduate, an option not available to regular ed students. This still shows up on my transcript, decades later, and just recently I landed a job partly because of my undergraduate transcript, with the interviewer specifically commenting on the 'challenging classes" I took and earned 4.0s on (and I have a Masters and 25 post grad credits as well). Also, as an honors student I was able to study with a future Nobel Prize winner (at the time he had a lot of buzz around him); again, this matters.</p>