<p>Could y'all please help me in a search for Honor Colleges that might provide a separate enviornment within a university for their students? It seems that most offer some HC classes and even separate dorms, but then dump HC students into mega-classes (albeit with first-dibs on enrollment) for the bulk their studies.</p>
<p>Check out Indiana University of PA. We went to an open house for the Honors college. It is a separate entity. They said a lot of colleges put the title of honors on a course, but it means, for example: Regular calculus goes through Chapter 10, Honors goes through Chapter 15, which means Honors kids at most schools just do more work. They wanted theirs to be the same amount of work, only more interesting and challenging. We wouldn't give IUP an second glance without the HC, but with it, we are considering it at least. They also have their own dorm, and Honors classes are taught in classrooms on the ground floor of the dorm.</p>
<p>namtrag, thanks for the tip. I'm studying IUP's Honors College sight. I wonder if I could have your opion on Honor Colleges vs. LACs.</p>
<p>Not an expert, but I believe the HC at IUP is trying to emulate a LAC approach to things. I was pretty impressed by their program. My son also liked it. It was about 400 students, and all frshman a guaranteed a spot in the honors dorm, and they said pretty much anyone from the upperclassmen who wanted to remain in the dorm could get a spot. IUP is also much cheaper than most LAC's, even for out of staters. I am not sure where you live, but they even have an in-between price for Va, Ohio and WV residents. Not quite in-state, but close.</p>
<p>St. Mary's College of Maryland. It's in a completely different location from UMaryland.</p>
<p>Is St. Mary's associated with UMaryland at all?</p>
<p>Honor College Sampler</p>
<p>St. Mary's College of Maryland ("The Public Honors College"), St. Mary's, MD
$28K/$19K; m. SAT=1240; enrllmnt=1850 </p>
<p>Wilkes HC (Florida Atlantic U.), Jupiter, FL
$26K/$13K; m.SAT=1260</p>
<p>Robert E. Cook HC (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Indiana, PA
$24/$11K; m.SAT=1235</p>
<p>Penn State SHC, University Park, PA
$29/$18K; m.SAT=1429 (!); enrllmnt=1800</p>
<p>It seem to me that HCs are a lower price alternative for above average, in-state kids. Being from New Mexico anywhere is out-state for us.</p>
<p>Sampler cont'd</p>
<p>Barrett HC (Arizona State U.) Tempe, AZ
$23/$12;avg.SAT=1320; enrlmnt=3,015</p>
<p>St. Mary's may call itself an "honors college" but those SAT scores are way lower than those of students admitted to the honors program at the University of Maryland at College Park (most students in the program seem to have SATs of above 1400). On the other hand, the UMCP honors program students do have most of their classes with the general population.</p>
<p>I would also note that those money figures may not apply to real students. Many of the kids in honors programs also get merit scholarships. At UMCP, some of the kids in the honors program are paying $0 for college, thanks to "free ride" merit scholarships. (UMCP knows how to buy top students.)</p>
<p>I know Ohio Universitie's Honors College exempts students from GE requirements and has them take their courses one on one with a professor.</p>
<p>St. Mary's sounds good @ $o. And looks beautiful, on the water and all. Speaking of money and state schools, to me there is something really unwelcoming from the git-go about being charged almost double the tuition just because you happen to live a couple hundred miles over the state line (ASU in my case). Kinda makes me want to poney-up another $10K, blow off the faux-LACs and go for the genuine article.</p>