<p>Just for some background, I'm hoping to have taken ~19 APs by end of Senior Year in order to get rid of as many classes possible. Also, some of the UT stuff is confusing me.</p>
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<li><p>Do any people do Business Honors Program and Honors Engineering? How realistic is it, and how heavy is the courseload?</p></li>
<li><p>How difficult is admissions for BHP and Honors Engineering? What is the acceptance rate?</p></li>
<li><p>How difficult are Plan II, BHP, and Honors Engineering by themselves? How would you rank them in difficulty?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it possible to do the Engineering Honors/Plan II Honors Dual Degree Program + a major in something like Business/History/Philosophy? Sorry for my cluelessness, but to major in something do you have to get a degree in it?</p></li>
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<p>STOP! seriously, dude, plan 2, BHP, AND Engineering honors? first off, I wasn’t even able to apply to more than two, so you’ll probably have to choose, plan 2 is a major in and of itself, so you have to have that course load, plus any you’d have with either of the others (though I’m not sure you can do two at the same time) so you’d have that other degree in the business school or engineering school, plus plan 2 (and I’m still not sure if you’ll be allowed to do so), you’ll have no time for anything man, talk about burn out…</p>
<p>But, seriously, you can do Plan 2 and engineering honors concurrently. There is information regarding this track on the engineering website.</p>
<p>You can also do Plan 2 and Business honors. My son has a friend who is doing that (just spent the summer in Prague with business honors this summer). </p>
<p>I don’t think though that you can do all 3!!</p>
<p>okay, I guess you can do multiple honors programs, i’ll concede that, however I still wouldn’t do it, there’s alot of other things you can do in austin, take an internship, stuff out of class, etc. the last thing you need to do is burn yourself out…</p>
<p>Two of the three would be fine. Students who are Plan II majors fairly often have a second major, and if your second major is going to be engineering, why not be in honors engineering? if your second major is going to be business, why not be in business honors? </p>
<p>But as mkose1 is recommending, make sure you save yourself some time for football games and Austin City Limits :)</p>
<p>As a Plan II/BHP major with friends on the same route, I would definitely say that being one is possible. The AP credits would be very, very useful when you are trying to consolidate your schedule if you are trying to fit so much in, but you should keep in mind that all of them won’t be applicable for Plan II majors. (English AP’s don’t count because everyone must take World Lit. both semesters of freshman year, even if you 5’d the BC calculus exam you would have to take more yet another course on top of that, etc.) Plan II has a lot of requirements that you might need to take on University, but it does seem to mesh much more nicely with science majors who need to take all of these courses, regardless.</p>
<p>Only two majors are allowed to be present on your Application and if you want into the business school you would put that one on top and Plan II second (plan II recommends this). I assume that you would do the same thing if you wanted to apply to Cockrell for engineering (plan II second, I mean).</p>
<p>You are being quite ambitious and really I commend you if you are capable, but even if you are I really would recommend easing into just the two that you prefer first and seeing how that whole new schedule plays out before you pile on the whole thing. After all, a spotless incoming GPA is a terrible thing to waste.</p>
<p>It’s not like there’s nothing to do, but study here. So many active clubs, and internships, and fantastic study abroad, and research opportunities if you’ll step out to find them (and with the right majors, some of them will find /you/).</p>
<p>My schedule was a jumble coming in because I tested out of a lot of stuff but still couldn’t break the sequence of instruction, and I wanted to try to add in Arabic on top of it all, while still trying to achieve fluency in Spanish. Even if you have the will, sometimes there just aren’t the hours… Hope this helps. :-)</p>
<p>Based on my informal polling over the past couple years, about half of Plan II majors also double-major in something else. The second major can be just about anything; there was no particular concentration in any one area.</p>
<p>if you’re really into business and engineering and plan II, maybe you could do the Business route to Engineering degree and Plan II? Although that program I think takes 5 years, so in addition to the Plan II it would take…6? 7 years?</p>
<p>Wow! Thanks guys! And don’t worry I WAS NOT planning to do Plan II, BHP, and Honors engineering all at the same time :P! Sorry if my post seemed like I was saying that! I am NOT that crazy hahahaha!!!</p>
<p>There is SOOOO much to choose from! I didn’t even know ERB even existed! I think what I will probably do is Engineering Honors + PlanII/LAH + Business Foundations Program Certificate (Is it any good? It’s not like another degree/major is it? The FAQ says it should be considered a “minor”)</p>
<p>I am still wondering about what the acceptance rates are for Honors Engineering, does anyone know?</p>
<p>Search for past threads in this forum about the Business Foundations certificate. Previous posters have said that these classes are not taught by McCombs professors and are very easy, like high school classes. I don’t think it sounds like what you are looking for.</p>
<p>if you do all three, good luck graduating in five years with summer school…
IT’s possible to do plan II and BHP or Plan II and Engineering honors, but they won’t let you do BHP and Engineering honros together, I’ve tried ;)</p>
<p>thats pretty cool, just one thing, although Plan 2 doesn’t care if you put them first or second, LAH does, they wanna be your first choice, and if you’re gonna apply to the honors program, you only have two options, so you’ll still have to choose between Plan 2, LAH, and Engineering Honors, and BHP, if you’re still looking at that, and also, though you can do Plan 2 with most other honors programs, you absolutely cannot do Plan 2 and LAH at the same time, that i know for a fact.</p>
<p>The 10% thing scares me for Engineering Honors! Is the acceptance rate really that low?! That’s only about 100 people a year!</p>
<p>Both LAH and Engineering Honors want first?! Typically do any people who put either one second get in? Plan II sounds great instead of LAH but the AP credit thing is still a little disappointing.</p>
<p>I know LAH want first, and they said its highly likely that if you put them second you won’t get in unless there’s a VERY compelling reason why not, Engineering Honors I believe wants first, but don’t quote me on that, and Plan 2 is an actual major, a very rigorous and challenging major, (not to discourage you, but it’s true) LAH on the other hand is the largest honors program and allows you to enter honors classes for classes in your major ie, I’m a government major, and in LAH, so I’m able to get a guaranteed spot in honors government courses. I don’t know about the other programs that much, so I won’t speculate into those much further.</p>
<p>I think Plan II is the only one that it is fine to put second. (They actually tell you to do that). I don’t think you can even get in to Engineering or Business (not just honors) unless you put them first. The 10% acceptance for Engineering Honors is correct. Someone posted on here a couple of months ago that she was told by the department that if you did not have a 1500 SAT Cr/M, they did not even look at you. Engineering honors is pretty much all about class rank and SAT or ACT test scores.</p>
<p>Meh, I applied for BHP as first choice with Plan II as a second choice. Plan II is a Lib Arts major, so I expressed interest in LAH without making it one of my top two options and was admitted to all three.</p>
<p>So, Eng Honors/Plan II would probably work the same way with their admissions. Plan II is a bit more selective than LAH so if you get it in it (or not) you’ll probably get into LAH.</p>
<p>Edit: I did have to choose between LAH and Plan II, that’ true, but that’s not an issue for you.</p>