@blevine --Agreed 100%. At the engineering welcome and advising session (parents were included in the welcome part and then dismissed while the students registered), I almost felt like standing up and applauding when the advisor said “For all of you in this room, you’ve felt the need to take the honors version/AP/IB version of every class you’ve taken. Either it was from a desire to be with other kids like you or your parents pushed you or you pushed yourself—whatever the reason, it STOPS right here. There is NO extra credit or leg up given here for taking the honors version of anything. The regular classes will be ENOUGH. Trust me. The only reason you need to take the honors version of anything is if you live and dream in say…physics…and you feel you couldn’t breathe if you couldn’t talk about physics with other students 24X7, then DO take honors physics. But otherwise, don’t do it.”
Case Western is medium in size, has a strong engineering program, and gives merit. You could run the NPC to see if it gets you in range.
True that being in the honors college can mean perks like early registration.
If you are in-state for Missouri, why is he not going to attend Missouri S&T? Very cheap and full of engineering majors. If he makes NMF, he will end up with 10,000$ a year in merit aid with already low in-state tuition.
Edit: I see he already said he didn’t want to attend S&T, but he should still apply as this would likely be his cheapest option…
Thanks for all the feedback. I am encouraging him to apply to S&T but he would like a bigger school. He’s pushing to visit Arizona State. It’s so far from home but good $ for NMF and strong engineering and honors program.
When you visited Bama, did you just do the regular campus tour? Did you have the honors college or eng’g set up a tour?
I didn’t go with him on the Bama tour but he did do the honors college and engineering. I can’t figure out why but he’s not sold on Bama.