<p>So aside from Hume housing and taking one or two honors classes per semester, what does the uf honors program consist of? Is that it? I have read the website and it talks about internship opportunities, research and such. Can anyone in the program comment on whether this is true?</p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshman, so maybe you shouldn't trust me...but I went to the Honors Visitation Day and it was actually fairly impressive. (Apparently, if you don't go to that you're in the dark -- the website is pretty vague.) You get emails every day about things going on around campus and about research, internship, and study abroad opportunities. Also, smaller class sizes and specific honors advisors that are supposed to be much more accessible than other advisors. The program is for two years, which is the only thing about it that I found rather disappointing.</p>
<p>The two year program thing is a myth...you have priority to register for your honors courses during the first two years, but you can take advantage of honors activities, courses and advising all throughout undergrad.</p>
<p>Honors students get dibs on classes over everyone else I think (might be wrong, I had another qualification that might have given this). Second, the honors classes are varied and much better than (if applicable) their non-honors counterparts. For example in Physics II honors, the professor derives relativity from electromagnetism just as Einstein did a century ago.</p>
<p>I just graduated last semester and you don't get anything special on your diploma (that I saw), but it was definitely worthwhile to just take some fun classes and still get your advisors to count them toward classes you need.</p>
<p>The honors program has a wide variety of things to do, but I don't think you necessarily have to be an honors student to participate in them. For example I was part of the university scholars program which gives you a stipend of like $2500 to do research with a mentor, and that was conducted through the honors program. That was a VERY worthwhile pursuit, by the way; I'm absolutely certain that the activities of the honors program are what got me into every grad school I applied.</p>
<p>gthopeful:</p>
<p>The way it has been explained to us (my DD is an incoming freshman for Fall '08) is that honors students get to register early for one (maybe 2??) honors classes per semester. NMF gets to register for all classes before everyone else for all semesters.</p>
<p>BTW, thank you for all of your recent posts. Your journey has been similar to what I think my D's will be. Your posts have been very informative. I'll be sure to tell my D to look into the research stipend through honors.</p>
<p>I know I'm going off topic but......</p>
<p>gthopeful, as a recent graduate, can you comment on the success of your peers in their applications to grad school? I am interested in medicine so any details you have on perhaps where people went to med school and how many would be greatly appreciated. I am currently decided between UF and a similarly ranked private school (GW). Congrats on your acceptances btw!</p>
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gthopeful, as a recent graduate, can you comment on the success of your peers in their applications to grad school? I am interested in medicine so any details you have on perhaps where people went to med school and how many would be greatly appreciated. I am currently decided between UF and a similarly ranked private school (GW). Congrats on your acceptances btw!
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<p>Gt peers are applying to grad school in engineering, so they might not know too much about medical school. As for the people I know, all are non-honors, they are going to UM x2, USF, UF, Nova, Suny, UV, Emory x2 , LECOM, PCOM, UNC-CH, Wisconsin, and thats confirm so far....other are still waiting on waiting lists. I know someone at GW (non premed), kinda expense (~$50,000/yr).</p>
<p>ASMAJ, interesting. thank you.</p>
<p>Unfortunately I only know of a few people in the medical program, and they stayed at UF (all but 1)because Shands is an absolutely massive medical institution with a lot of opportunities. As far as engineering goes, the good students were very successful and were accepted at the engineering equivalents to the Ivies: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley right on down. Some of them didn't even have anything more than stellar GPA's and summer jobs.</p>