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Graduate School
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<p>I'm going to be a junior at Cornell in the Fall, and I'm wondering if I should bother trying to complete the Honors Program? It's much more rigorous, and I might end up with an extra "B," that I certainly do not want. I current have a 4.0 (I transferred from a much-less rigorous college) and my major is Human Development.</p>

<p>I want to get my Ph.D in Sociology and eventually teach.</p>

<p>I'm planning on taking a year off after undergrad before applying. This means that the admissions committee will at least see that I do have the honors distinction.</p>

<p>Also, do minors matter AT ALL? I'm sort of interested in minoring in something, but if no one cares, suddenly the extra classes don't seem so exciting.</p>

<p>Any insight would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Getting a Ph.D. just to teach doesn’t seem like the best reason to go into a graduate program. Read a lot of the popular threads in this forum since the questions you’ve asked have been answered in GREAT detail in those threads alone (and in many others).</p>