<p>Can anyone tell me if Mosher is a good residence hall? I was accepted to Engineering last week and am wondering if that's the best place for me to start in Fall 2011. Dorms on campus seem pretty old, but my parents don't want me to go to the private dorms this first year.</p>
<p>I don’t live there, but have been in it a few times. I think it’s the dorm with the most people on campus. Also each floor has like a kitchen which I know our dorm doesn’t have where you can make stuff. The rooms aren’t tiny but they are pretty small compared to modular dorms. A lot of kids in my engineering cluster the first semester lived in mosher, I didn’t really hear anything bad from them or them saying that they hated it.</p>
<p>Could you comment on the honors dorm? Are they good?</p>
<p>I’m sure someone else will be able to help you, I don’t think I’ve ever been into an honors dorm or met someone who has talked about living in one. I’m sure they’re just the same as the other dorms but with maybe a little bit more rules or something.</p>
<p>I live in Mosher.</p>
<p>It is just about the same as any other southside residence hall. Nothing really great to speak of but nothing bad either. Just a place to live and not much else. The whole Engineering Living Learning Community thing is pretty lame. I haven’t gained one thing out of being in that particular dorm. There’s some pluses to it if you feel like you are going to be needing outside help/tutoring since there is a room every night where upperclassman do homework/study help. The rooms are very small. The wireless internet capability is nice, except that it doesn’t seem to work like it’s supposed to half the time.</p>
<p>Overall, I’ve heard of better experiences in the honors dorms. They are closer to sbisa and the rooms are larger.</p>
<p>[Honors</a> Housing Community | Honors Programs | Texas A&M University](<a href=“http://honors.tamu.edu/community/honors_housing.shtml]Honors”>http://honors.tamu.edu/community/honors_housing.shtml)</p>
<p>Lechner / McFadden are for Freshman. Clements is for upper class-man. S2-Junior EE still stay in honor dorms. He said Lechner do a lot of fun thing for freshman. No experience with McFadden, as it was not for honors 3 yrs ago. Clements pretty much you are on your own. In these dorms, many students study in their room. Overall, the dorm itself is not too noisy. I believe, all rooms are double modular and have their own bathroom. Bathrooms are clean weekly. Obviously you take out your own trash and clean your own room. </p>
<p>Bottom floor has microwave, laundry room, vending machine etc. You can look up the floor plan via housing web site. During down time, many student probably similar to other dorms host gaming party. Never heard of drinking problem perhaps son’s friends are not into that. </p>
<p>RA over all seems to be friendly and only few rules and meeting. TAMU dorms are petty old in general, so no exception here. Cell phone reception with Verizon no problem. No wireless, you have to use Ethernet cable.</p>
<p>When will students hear if they are honors eligible (or have they already?)? Just wondering since a post on this thread asked about honors dorms.</p>
<p>VAMom2015: Same question as you. If you find out, do share, please. </p>
<p>I’m wondering if all academic admits would be honors eligible? The standards to be an academic admit is the same as the eligibility to be considered for the honors scholarships, or am I incorrect?</p>
<p>To be honors eligible as a freshman, you need to be either in the top 10% of your class AND have at least a 1250 on Verbal + Math on the SAT (with a 570 in each section), or a 28 on the ACT (with a 27 in Math and English). The only other way to be honors eligible is to be a National Merit, National Achievement, or National Hispanic Scholar.</p>
<p>Basically if the student is not in the top 10% of his or her class and is not some sort of National Merit Scholar, then the only way to be honors eligible is to make a 3.5 gpa their first semester at A&M and apply for honors classes for the second semester. There’s no application for honors. You just sign up for honors classes if eligible, and if you complete the correct honors courses, you get either Foundations honors (19 honors hours) or University honors (36 honors hours) recognition when you graduate. There are also honors for different departments, but I don’t know much about that.</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong on anything (:</p>
<p>The above post is accurate.</p>
<p>The real benefit of honors is honors priority registration which made registering for classes a much better process. You get all the classes you want. Like said above, make a 3.5 or higher and you can sign up for honors the next semester. Look at this as a good test to see if you are ready to take on the honors courses. Most people I know do not ever intend to graduate with honors, they just want to keep the priority registration status. That being said, most people just like to abuse the system which is perfectly acceptable.</p>
<p>Which honors class do you take? Are they that much more difficult than the regular classes?</p>
<p>Well, I personally am taking my first one this semester (ENGR 112).</p>
<p>Had friends in PHYS 218, CHEM 101, MATH 152 honors and every single one of them said it was just plain rediculous and that they wished they had never taken them as honors.
The idea that honors courses will be more lenient since they “know you need your 3.5” is completely wrong.</p>
<p>Honors classes are more difficult because every single person in them has a 3.5 GPA. The competition is tougher and there is generally a smaller curve because all of the students are straight-A scholars. </p>
<p>Luckily I’ve made an A in every honors class I’ve taken (MATH 152, ENGR 111, ENGR 112, PHYS 218, AERO 201, ENDS 101). They are slightly tougher, but not absurdly difficult or anything.</p>
<p>Oh ENDS 101, lol.</p>
<p>I am in Honors 112 right now and it is not too bad and the professors are great.</p>
<p>Reveille did point out it was doable, but again this person has made A’s in 6 honors courses (including PHYS 218 and MATH 152 which is impressive based on experiences my friends have had with those two classes) which is something that not many people here at A&M can boast. I think it is important to choose your honors courses wisely.</p>